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review preparation

To all,



Since not all of you came with prints today (and one did not come at all...)
PRINT YOUR DRAWINGS for yourself this week-end - at required scale - it can be only a part of your drawing, on a A4 for example, in order to test it and see how they come out (high risk of bad surprises if you do not test once).
Post your drawings this week-end if you need advice and comments.


Then you will certainly realize that you have to:
- seriously edit all lines exported from Rhino in Illustrator = erase the object's construction lines that do not correspond with reality, change the line-weight and sometimes type, etc.
- and draw details of construction and junction on the drawing. Scale 1/50 does not allow for imprecision!
- do not forget ground line and fill, selected and meaningful context ....


Optionally, you can show the relation between the different views on your plates, by connecting with construction/connection lines, as you did in 1st year.
In some projects that would make sense and look better.



All of you should be critical about each drawing 
what can this point of view show of your project ?
- which views do you need to have ?
- what other view or type of drawing or document do you need to better explain your project ?
- what is your rendering media ?


DO NOT FORGET TO PRESENT ALL THE PROCESS OF WORKING - THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR PRESENTATION - NOT SO MUCH THE FINAL DOCUMENTS, BUT THE WAY YOU DEVELOPED THE PROJECT, THE QUESTIONS AND EXPLORATIONS YOU WENT THROUGH ETC.
BRING ALL STUDY MODELS, RESEARCHES AND SKETCHES


Marc, you are going to love this :  Gangster who built world's tallest log cabin
and Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral


Dream, a few examples of staircases supported by cables
http://www.bernsteinarchitecture.com/pages/index.asp?page=001_suspendedspaces/004_floatingstairschicago
http://tensegritywiki.blogspot.com/2010/08/tensegrity-staircase-made-of-glass.html
http://www.stairporn.org/category/metal-stairs/
http://www.new-territories.com/I'vehe2.gif

And Noc, do a quick search on technical drawing to see what you should be aiming for...


And.... a great surprise!
We might have a guest crit, Francois Roche from R&Sie(n), joining the review.
Be ready and be good! ..and you will get a lot out of it.






3 comments:

a said...

Aj.Camillee, I've been kind of stuck with my design and in rhino. So I dont think I'm going to be able to change everything we discussed on Friday according to the time we have left before Tuesday. Hope this is okay..

etc. said...

A, i believe the main reason is that you are afraid of taking the risk to compromise the homogeneity of your design so far.
It is not a question of time but of intention and will. If you believe your project should be the way it is, then stand up for it and assume the fact that this is what you believe in.
On Tuesday, all of you will not present projects that were cut short because of time, but ideas developed in a direction which belongs to you.
It is good somehow that you are so stubborn (really!) but you have to be responsible for it and show your project at its best!
I hope you understand...

etc. said...

.... i just remembered the handrail though!
This is very important. At least show how you would like to change it and do it for some parts of the bridge, if you cannot do it for the entire project.
Don't worry, you will make it just fine, but really i insist on you working a little more freely, and showing sketches, and intuitive models.

Above all, don't be afraid of not being in control of every single aspect of your project, it is actually then that a design becomes really interesting.