ilovearchitecture

Good afternoon to my Russian and Asian readers and happy almost dawn to my east-coasters!

As I sit back and contemplate the almost 19 straight hours I just spent in studio, barring the 20 minute period to get food, I can't help but think about the 6 drawings my professor made me redo, the model he wanted me to remake, and the complete idea change from my original thoughts.

"I think you should redo your model, and change all your drawings" he says, a mere 15 hours before crits.

"I don't think I have time to do all that" I manage to spit out.

All my whining aside, today (or yesterday I guess) was quite the stress filled action packed angst filled day.  I never ended up redoing the model I spent hours setting up and laser cutting, mostly because of time issues and partly because I'm really lazy.  I did redo the drawings, made new sections, and changed the entire premise of the path I created over the last few days.

I feel like this is a trend in architecture.  They'll tell you your idea is good for a few days, then at the last minute say it's bad and to redo it.  My favorite(?) part was when I made topography changed and had elliptical and circular hills as banks for bicyclists and skateboards and such, to which my professor said that it was too round and curved.  So I went and redid it, making jagged edges and sudden turns, to which my professor said that it needed to be rounded and curved, like a circle.  I find it difficult to understand what he wants.  So I went back and redid it, making it a combination of both.  He came back around midnight asking how I was doing, but I refused to show him my drawings because I don't think I could handle him telling me to restart.

So my day was spent doing stuff like that.  My path now weaves downhill with massive hills to bank off of.  I did the physics and it doesn't work.  It's actually not possible to climb these hills, but for whatever reason in architecture school it's not about designing something feasible it's just about designing something "cool."  That's nonsense to me, but we'll see.

I have some quick pictures of the stuff I'm presenting tomorrow, and I'll give a more detailed explanation of it tomorrow, time permitting.  For now I think I'll get a couple hours of sleep before crits later today.  Thanks for reading.