008: Completion of Project 2 with the closure of review....

All eyes open after review.

I brushed my teeth, sort-of dressed up, and smiled like a nervous student, in the face of a jury. See, the Jury Room is white white, and our projects adorn it with the smell of judgement and twitching minds.

I explained what It was.

Uniform triangles, welded steel frames, all white attach to each other with bolts and customized angles to form the "tent structure." This creates two different spaces: One space, which is closed off to all outsiders and just forms a narrow openning for a ticket booth. The other, is open and almost transparent, which allows employees to walk through, and costumers to buy their food (it is a concession stand.) They can see them on the display shelves.



My Rhino renderings because this long scroll of vague directions. Vague because of time constrictions and my little experience with the program. Still, I produced, in my opinion, a beautiful wall display:



A pause, and they say very helpful things.

(1) The ramp, could be extended. There is a problem in scale. One would have to see the produces on display under the counter, then have to walk around to the ramp. Luckily, this is simple to fix, and just make the ramp accessable from two opposite sides. This doesn't kill the design at all.

(2) They appreciate my drawings, and the detail put into them, but thought that additional diagrams were needed in how exactly, more by steps, in how it all comes together. It does explain a lot about the structure, but not how to put it together.

(3) "Triangular-themed shelves" are out. I nodded with agreement. Blair said that an extention of the structure down to the base would add a good shelving-display area.

(4) They appreciated my detailing.

(5) Most importantly, I focused too much on detailing. They suggested I take a step back, after designing and reinforcing my structure, I should draw a few sketches, diagrams of the circulation, of the overall program, and try to fit everything else around it. Of course, they understood that we only had a week to design, build, and diagram these portable, modular concession stands, thus, it isn't a failure at all. Just a shortage of time (and sleep!)

I focused so much on making the structure work that I didn't put enough effort in combining the two systems: The structure-skin, and the ticket/concession counters-display. The outside and the in. They are not refined for unity.

They were also interested in how the frosted material connected to the frame. They said it would be interesting to see how the frosted panels would overlap or connect when assembled.


Overall, I'm content.



There I am, at my desk.
My archidesk.
It will increase in messiness exponentially.