The Curveball

As usual, there will be crits tomorrow morning.  However, this time we are doing group crits.  This week we've been diagramming our case studies from week 1, which I have posted about before.  Originally we were divided into small groups and were assigned one topic (I was in infrastructure).  In these groups we had to develop a language to convey infrastructure that could be used by all the case studies.  This way the diagrams would be clear and consistent.  Tomorrow we will be presenting in groups.  Each small group will present all 22 diagrams in their section, so there will be 8 presentations.  

This means we have to know the infrastructure of all the projects, what the main idea is, how it is integrated into the design, the most important aspects, etc.  It should be interesting, but confusing.  I'm not sure what the result will be, but the change is kind of nice.

Today we worked on all of our stuff.  In the morning our drawing teacher came in and marked up our drawings.  I finished redoing my week 3 assignment, cleaned up the drawings for that and weeks 1 and 2, finalized my diagrams, and worked on my design log.  I also made another test model of a detail of the new topography I designed.  

This week, the TAs have been setting up the exhibition for our work.  Around 4 we brought all our models, test models, and stacks of chipboard to a 72 foot long table the TAs built that spans a large part of the hallway at the main entrance.  This table will be up, displaying all of our models and iterations we did.  It looks really cool and hopefully it will go well.  Other details are still unknown.  Our week 2 and 3 plots get 25"x28" sheet each and they will be gridded.  Aside from that, I'm not entirely sure.  

I still don't have pictures or real insight to give, but I'll talk more later, hopefully.  

Also we're all gonna wear black tomorrow like real architects, so that'll be cool.  And tomorrow is another work day.  Usually we have part of Saturday off, but we've been told we're expected to be in studio tomorrow as if it were a normal day.  We'll see how that goes.  Thanks for reading.