The END of Y1

So, at long last, the end is in sight! In just 66 short hours I will have presented my years worth of work and will be feeling the most relieved I ever have, I'm sure.
As I am only the second person to present I am worried that I won't know what sort of questions the reviewers will ask me... can you explain your projects? what are you doing over the summer? what architect do you find most influential in your work...? All of these being valid questions for them to ask, I still feel anxious and I know that by the time Sunday night comes I won't be able to sleep because of the nerves.

Although the deadline for having work pinned up is only 48 hours I am surprisingly relaxed, mainly because I am so excited to be finished and to get a chance to relax and enjoy the sunshine outside (no doubt the sun will be gone and the rain will be back by the time I'm finished).

Overall I am pleased with the work I have produced over the course of the year and even though I am ecstatic to be almost finished Y1, I will miss the usual Thursday night panicking, stress with the printers and difficulty carrying models into the studio through all types of weather. Only 4 months until it starts again though, so I may as well enjoy my holidays when they come!

Some finished work:

Tectonics Project

To start, the paper models were frustrating. No matter how hard I tried to manipulate the paper into the shape I wanted, it just would not work. Many times I had to start again because the paper became so mauled that it looked like my little cousin had crumpled up a piece of paper, and I had attempted to call it ‘art’. But it was the paper cuts that were the worst. Although the cut itself is tiny and nearly non-existent, it is amazing how sore they could be.
However, progressing through the project, I began to understand why making models from paper was useful for our studies of architecture. It made me really think about where things were going to go and made me question each fold and cut.

When we reached the end of the first tectonics project, we were allowed to use a needle and thread to sew parts together. This presented more problems for me and my un-coordination and my ability to hurt myself on any occasion. This, however, meant that the things we could make were more complex and detailed.

After these projects were done, we started on our pavilions. I developed an idea I had made in my tectonics 2 project, although I made it to the 1:50 scale. Making the pavilion took me a long time but I am pleased with the end result. Having to include all of the structural information about the pavilion was difficult as it meant that I had a lot more to think about than in the previous projects.

I enjoyed the tectonics module despite my constant whining. I felt that it made me think a lot more about the structure and how a building or structure would be built, and not just designing a house and expecting it to stay standing without any consideration of the structure.