the start of the spring '11 quarter is upon me and with that I undergo another new assignment. our main design studio project this quarter to design an Olympic size competitive crew row house. the goal of the quarter is to look at longspan structures, how they work, and what they offer to different programs and their intended design.
before we start this next big design, we are doing a couple of smaller projects to help get our brains flowing. they involve quantifying and qualifying the structure, movement, behaviors, skeleton, etc. of a specific animal and a competitive racing scull. the first assignment was one that I am embarrassed to say was my lowest performance yet in architecture school. I simply did not put in the amount of time and energy necessary to complete the task, so with that I will not be posting the work I did for that because it is not a good representation of myself. however, I learned from that experience and have a better understanding of myself and what I need to do this quarter.
with that in mind, I am going to work extremely hard this next assignment in order to offset my low performance on the previous one. I will be analyzing a moose; looking at it's antlers, more specifically, and see all that goes on with them and how I can analyze the structure, movement, and materials of them in order to abstract that into space and, hopefully, more of an architectural representation.
stay tuned for this process work as it will be up next monday after its deadline.
