Moment of Clarity

Ideas must not only be conceived, but clarified first to achieve full design execution. Design can always continue onward given its nature but the foundation is the root to solving the problem. This was my personal mantra this morning when I sat down with the reality that I have 6.5 weeks left til my final presentation.

I have pushed away inital concept drawings to clarify my design stance and structure my problem…. until Now. Each time I have a review, I receive positive feedback but it’s a common theme with my jurors that for them to understand clearly my design stance, they need a clear picture of process. Essentially the intro in drawings. I have been stating a concise intro verbally but within our realm of study, as architects, we read drawings, not digest words. It needs to be expressed in conceptual diagrams (many which I have sketched out, just not drawn) as a starting point for them to understand the what/how/where I’ve arrived at my design.

I spent the morning ironing out my original thoughts to set myself up to move forward through my design moves.

Below are the previous morning thoughts over several cups of coffee (coupled with my context)… this basis will structure the initial storyline as I intend to move towards setting up my thesis boards.

But back to the review, it was very helpful (as always) to receive outside comments; the only exception 30 mins was too short with the depth of my project. I had one juror hang behind to give me feedback to clarify to further push the process along. Her suggestions were to simplify the structural grid into one versus three abstractions. Allow the grid to orient wall angles or allow the wall to be free with column locations. Oftentimes we become so entrenched with our original intent or layout as designers, it’s difficult to separate.

Attached below is the current state of project through plans/ elevations. More soon as I continue to tweak lessons learned and update my section and process models…

latest parti: street level plan: