During my field trip to Washington D.C. in second year, we visited a modern Quaker meeting house where we learned the basic ideas behind the Quaker religion and worship.

Part of the semester was spent designing a nesting bench to be used in a meeting house. My group designed a bench in the form of a trapezoidal prism which featured a compound dovetail joint at the edges.

The rest of the semester was spent individually designing a meeting house which features the previously designed bench. In the meeting house light is let in from clerestory eliminating outside distractions and focusing congregants’ thoughts inwards to themselves and others currently meeting.