3more weeks til i survived 1st year architecture

My final presentation panels :)

i wasnt very happy with the layout and there were things i didnt manage to do such as REDO MY GODDAMN ELEVATION. But considering my heart was pounding and my fingers were clicking on photoshop at 500clicks/minute at 6am, layout was alright...

In the 3days that i had to redo this whole presentation, i spent 45hrs on it hahah

Anyway it paid off cos my tutor said i'd improved alot since interim (which is a preliminary presentation 2weeks ago). HD would be a better praise though.

(Scroll down to....2..3 posts ago and there are my interim presentation panels)

Portfolio due in 1.5weeks. Time for frantic race no. 500 this year.

yo

Last final presentation tomorrow.

Trying to get the adrenaline going. Been at it for days. My archi classmates are practically my replacement family now. I see them more than i see anyone else.

Far out. im tired. Rather pissed off at myself too cos i keep having to redo things due to my stupidity and lack of thinking whilst doing it. gah.

Scavenge

So today for our construction tutorial we had a little fun pop quiz amongst our groups. One question i got asked was "how much does a clay brick weigh?" From years of experience in weighing apples and watermelons in Coles, i used my peripheral senses and said "3kilos" and I got it right.

Afterwards we had the funnest group activity we've done this semester. Each tutorial group had to find materials around the studio and design and create a life-sized structure.

It was hilarious. People flipped white boards, hung chairs/tables, used T-squares/wooden frames, and lots of string.

(1a) Lots of rolled up paper stuck on a paper frame and hung upside down

(1b) paper rolls being hung

(2) A really good use of a whiteboard flipped on its side so that it works as a swivel door. So clever hahah

It's an entry to an entrance.

And notice the random milkcrate hanging.

(3) Definately the most impressive one. Chairs creating arches and stuck together by tape. So clever

(4) "The Pirate ship" LOL. Grace's group and she's very proud of it.

(5) My group. We came up with the arching chairs idea before we saw the other group. But they definately did it better cos this isn't an arch and they didnt break a table :D

There is actually a string teepee spiralling down the centre, past the chairs but it doesnt turn up in photos cos the string's too thin.

Oh btw, the table on the left closest to the windows is mine :)

(5b) A zoom in on to the string teepee otherwise it doesnt come up on photos.

If you're wondering if our studio's always this messy, yes it is hahah

4more weeks and i can say i survived 1st year architecture

Here's some images of my presentation that resulted to 5 whole days at uni during

my mid-sem break while law students went to Goldcoast and partied.

Each of these pages are A1 sized. I have totally lost my sense of value of money. This isn't even my final presentation and it was 70bucks. In the next 4weeks i know i need to fork out 350bucks for another 100 on presentation, 200 on portfolio, and 50 on model. Everytime i throw so much money away i think about all the starving children in Africa and it kills me a little inside.

It's somewhat ironic. As architects, we're all so concerned about designs being sustainable and ecological. Then you take a look at how much paper and materials we use and throw away and you realise, designing something sustainable is probably an architects way of clearing their conscience.

ANYWAY, I hand drew all the drawings and scanned them in then photoshopped.

That axonometric drawing in the first page (the one with the red), that took me a total of 12 hours literally. It's my pride and joy and centre piece LOL

Look at my sperm whale in my tank below hahaha. Thats how i make architecture fun. Put whales in fish tanks and point it out to everyone

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And here's my model. It's definately not one of my finest work but my tutor seems to really like it so meh. All the blue parts you see, i did some resin casting and put in bits of blue pigments. It's messy stuff.

It's actually a really really flimsy model. Some pighead lifted it up while i was out for lunch and i came back to a distorted model with broken ramps and a piece of

it that was supposed to be sitting on the bottom inside of the building, on TOP of my roof. Whoever managed to do all that without completely devastating the model is quite impressive.

It's probably not unexpected for you all to hear about my psychotic sleeping patterns or lack of. In fact i'll enlighten you again. I've been awake for 40hrs. I stayed overnight in my studio sat 2pm to Sunday 11pm preparing for a presentation. This is also my 'mid-sem break'

When other people hear about our sleeping rituals, a lot of them automatically blames us for:

1. lack of time management

2. lack of self discipline

and when we hear this we get PISSED OFF. I have encountered so many obnoxious people judging us for what we do. We are perfectionists. Those who aren't will never succeed in our course.

We've been preparing for a presentation on Tuesday. Ever since the beginning of our mid-sem break, we've been coming into our studio and working.

I'll post up some pics real soon :)