Monday 15: After work placement I got the write up for the all the remaining artist but Louis Kahn. I usually don't work on the projects on Monday but the deadline for this stuff is in 2 days so I just really need to get it finished. Once again they are all in the drafts, because I haven't gotten all the pictures yet. It's really tough to decide what piece you want to show, because I don't want to overload the blog and put all their projects.
Ya Space!- PIG design (2020)
Tuesday 16: Today I finished my rational, concept and evaluation portion of the project proposal. I'm happy with the concept, I think it is specific enough that the design development stage won't be nerve racking, if I'd chosen to do a museum for example I think I would've lost it. But setting those criteria of modularity and repetition I think is really good. It could maybe be too limiting, but from where I'm standing at the moment it feels right because I want to have a specific problem to solve. In terms of the rational it was just a matter of writing up my notes from the self reflection blog post. Writing the evaluation serves as a good reminder to keep the annotation throughout, in that part I just discuss how I'll evaluate the project, which is just me anticipating really, the real evaluation will be different. I also wrote up the Louis Kahn research and got all the pictures for the 6 artists. I'm just finishing the blog posts and will publish them tomorrow, kind of last minute which is not the greatest. Better planning for the next section would be great, ideally at this stage, nearing a deadline I should just be making adjustments and nothing else.
Ya Space!- PIG design (2020)
Wednesday 17: Woke up early today to go over the research pages one last time, and making sure I dated all the projects I put on the posts and then published all of that. The deadline was met and I handed everything I believe and I'm happy with it apart from those last few days where it gets frantic, it may be okay at the research stage but doing so later on in the project will lead to oversights I don't and could avoid. Today was my first day in school since a while, got tested for the first time ever, and it's not the best thing in the world really. The focus for this first session back was to go through a whole design process in a day. We had a still life, with a bike and wheels and so I just got on with that. It was good to be back in school, change of scenery was cool and I enjoyed the task for the day. It was quick but it was good practice before I do that same process just more detailed. I'll try this time around to get more wild in the design development stage, not just my quick pencil ideas on a page. I'll try to try things I'm less used to, It may lead to work I don't like, but I'm a student and this work is just me finding myself really, it's not like its a commission and that my inability to draw very well will hinder the project. On the other hand it'll allow me to be very critical during my evaluation.
Thursday 18: Received the second brief for this project and low and behold what is on the brief this time, a model from Frank Gehry so I'm taking that as 2 out of 3. It would be perfect if for the third brief its Frank Lloyd Wright, but just to be in the safe I'll say it will be Renzo Piano or Norman Foster. I'll have to wait until the 21st April for that answer. But thats all besides the point, the second brief was simple to get, and was just what you'd expect, outlining that we're in the design development stage, there is however a big emphasis on the whole reflective annotations and also using a wide range of methods and evidencing those. I got back home and decided to write a blog post reflecting on my research. I probably did not reflect on the research in the artist pages so I think it was the right thing to do because I need more of that reflective/critical annotation.
Jean-Marie Cultural Center- Renzo Piano (1998)
Friday 19: All that was done today was the Blog post that went over what had been done on Wednesday 17, I made sure again to write good annotations that would be deemed reflective. But yeah that took a bit of time because I decided to explain the thought process behind each of the designs. I also mentioned in that blog post that I never really finished the task, because I never further developed one of the design ideas, so let's just hope that won't happen in the real project.
Saturday 20: Today I completed a self reflection sheet, where I just graded myself for each criteria and what I grade I thought I'd have for each criteria. So far not good enough, I gave myself a merit which is not what I'm aiming for, and also I never completed a mood board or mind map, and going of the fact that you get the grade from your lowest criteria (at least that is what I've understood) I would fail, but I don't think that would happen and I'm thinking the grade I gave myself is what I would get really. So there still work to be done, I'll try and go back and improve those areas where I can, but I think making a mood board or mind map of my thoughts from week 1 and publishing it in week 4 would just be off. So I'll create a mind map and mood board for the design development stage so that should fix that problem. I'll make sure to regularly look at the criteria moving on and make sure they are met for the deadline, because I had no clue about those mind maps before that self reflection sheet. Which is weird really because all of this year I've started my projects on a mind map but oh well.
Sunday 21: Today I researched pure geometry like I had said I would do. I don't really think I got it, because there is pure geometry to a mathematician and this pure geometry that is used to describe Tadao Ando's work, so thats architecture. I got a mixed bag of information the dictionary tells me it is the study of geometry from the point of statement that are accepted without proofs and they call those axioms and postulates rather then studying it in relations to object. I don't think that is what I was looking for, so after reading that I was ready to forget it and rule it out. I carried on the research and found an answer, turned out I wasn't researching the right thing, the pure geometry related to Ando was Ando's own design theory and not a concept in architecture. It is however mentioned in other places and it's not the same as Tadao's theory so I researched that as well and it turns out it is very straight to the point so I'll just make a blog post about that and discuss whether either of the two are of any importance to my project.
Cliff House- Fran Silvestre Arquitectos (2012)
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