It is helpful to do the practice that calculating the program and the site compared to a scale I could actual reach out for – a Portland city block – at the first week. And I have some ideas about how to improve the program and the project. And the sketches evokes some ideas about the buildings as well.
And it is good to quickly focus on one thing. Sketching diagrams help with draft planning. It is valuable to get feedback from professors about bio-mimicry. After seeing everyone’s programs and sites, I got inspirations of manipulating a large projects. It is challenging to do a project at my scale, but I think it could be interesting and exciting to implement the ideas to manipulate historic preservation to old neighborhood in a new way by using a sculpture piece which could still recalls the old memories.
Ask the authorities exactly what they class as an unfurnished home.