At this stage, the foam will be sanded smooth by the members of the student construction team and be followed by a professionally applied structural layer of glass reinforced fiberglass forming a thin shell. To this shell an opaque protective "Gel Coat" is applied. The Architect had intended this gel coat to be a metallic gold, similar to the boat hulls being constructed at the factories near by, as the model had indicated. However, the Littlejohn's selected a white, which in winter blended the building into the snow cover producing a continuous environment following the philosophy of the Architect.
The ropes shown dangling from the roof are part of the safety system for the sanding procedure already in progress.
