Marc and Dan,

I have your books too. What should we do with them?

Marc,

I have your books

finale

Moment of Reflection

Moment of reflection

please..... trust that the quality is much better that this.... had to compress for blogger. (cant wait till web 3.0)



"the abyss, the mirage" by ahmed mohtaseb from ahmed on Vimeo.

feast yer eyes

Anouncement.

Mat, Michael and Derick will present on Saturday.
Their projects will, nevrtheless, be pinned up in room HHS111 on Friday morning together with everyone else.

All of you should be ready to pin up your work on Thursday night !!!

The review will start on time at 10 AM

Plan Scale

this is not the finished plan, but just to show how much context gets in

a scale of 1/32"=1'-0"

after discussion with Dan, I am doing the building plans in 1/32" scale. (with 1/16 or 1/8 sections) and detail section and plan of a part.

question is,

isn't it too much to have 3 plans that all have this much context? (even if the context would be light lines)

renderings

Treatment Unit Plan

Overnight Unit Plan

Section

Dear All:

We will not be in the studio this afternoon. Instead we will be in on Saturday from 1PM until 5 PM. Feel free to contact us with any individual questions, by email or the blog.

Dan and Mark

Request

Marc,
I hate to be a hassle but is there any way that you could stop into studio before Thursday? I can meet at anytime. I just need to show some detailing in Max that I have changed according to our conversation. I am asking only because it will greatly determine the outcome of the physical model which is obviously more difficult to change. I want to have the final model finished by Thursday so the sooner the better.

Thanks,

Matt

Final

I'm interested in coming to the final review. Can you fill me in on the date and time so that I can schedule time off of work. Thanks.

Dan and Marc,

Sorry I won't be able to make to class today. I am working on my plans, sections and 3d model.

I am posting an updated version of a plan for one of the units. I will post more later. It would be very helpful if I could get some feedback.

Thank You

a bit of advice at “two weeks to go”...................

Dear All:

This is a bit of advice at “two weeks to go”...................

This is prompted by seeing where most of you are at this point.

I know that your are still designing !!! Design is never finished! The task is to take what you have and communicate it the best you can. A slightly improved design but not communicated well is of no use!!!!

The wise thing to do is to know when to stop.

Some of you are still changing the overall scheme (but not may) and some developing a part of your total design and developing in greater architectonic detail, both in thde computer in the computer.


That is important to do right now so that you have time to extract interior
(exterior) renderings of your project.

Such renderings to be of high quality and not done in the last moment need time. So no more design changes

to what you have now in the computer, no matter how possibly good the new ideas. Focus on presenting well what you have, not what might have, and run the risk of presenting it badly. (I can think of one or two exceptions)

You must give time to preparing your final presentation. The time is now!!!

The time for major changes to your design IS OVER.

It would be unwise and self destructive to change the basics of your scheme now. Your attention should be

shifted to the strategic task of making a good overall presentation of what you already have. That is to present a “thesis” in all its aspects: including your précis(short statement of your overall goals) research/film, synaestesia, project and quality of verbal and visual presentation.



You all must eave time to pull this together. As you hearde said at mid review,
“just a nice design of a building without a well argued and presented thesis question. And research back up will not do”

You all have to stop design now.(with the exception of minor improvements
that do not affect your time frame). That is it.

Any comments from us or others now must be about your overall
research and thesis as it applies to the project as it is now. Anything
that slows you down or redirects your attention from thinking about
developing what you have and the shape of your final presentation
not helpful at this point.

Please consult the list of requirements for the final presentation.
We (Marc aand I) should be able to help with those questions.


Good luck to all….Dan

skin/structure

these are images shown to Dan today.

I want to keep the idea of 50% porosity of skin(void=solid). it almost looks opaque during the day and becomes more transparent at night(need to work on night renders)

I made a big mistake by making every profile of the tubes 4" wide. I will change this to 3 or 2".

the depth will be revised to 8" from what is currently 12" in images. I am also considering lightening the light shaft structure by making the void space doubled.