So that's it for this design. It's been completed and I'm very happy with the way it came out. This project's building was a lot more complex than in prior projects and it challenged me, tested my patients, but now being at the end of the tunnel, looking back I wouldn't mind going through that same tunnel back. I have to say I like the design, it may not be everyone's taste, especially all the concrete, but to me it's a really cool building. I feel like the building does what I want it to. It's modular, it's for students, it made with the same three shapes and I think it does encourage this sense of community. I think the real questions is whether what I wanted the building to do actually useful or sensible. Why modular, what's the thinking behind having the ability to take bedrooms in and out. Still to this point I don't have a firm answer. I guess it could be so that you can swap rooms after a while if they are getting too old. Maybe so students can take their rooms with them somewhere else. That leads me to what I think is the only solution for this building to truly be a success and it's if the system is taken up by others elsewhere. Otherwise being able to take your bedroom out will be useless, where will put, it's not self efficient. However if the system was adopted by others elsewhere then it becomes more interesting, students could have their rooms, and when they study abroad they take it with them and slot it into that new country. I don't know. The other question I asked myself a lot was why community. Would it actually help, is it even a good idea? I would like to think so, I imagine it can be quite daunting to leave your family behind for the first time and live by yourself, but if you build a sort of new family with other students then it could help. I mean for me personally, I don't know how willing I would be to invest myself in such a community, I'm not the most social but maybe when you end up by yourself far from home the story changes.
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