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November 30, 2005

Crit Day

This is a week of crits. We had a bunch of architects and instructors in today to see our desk setups. Tomorrow our instructor is going from desk to desk critiquing our work. Friday we have our "exit interviews." It's a paradoxical mix of rushing to get work done -- we can work between crits to adapt our designs to the feedback -- and sitting and waiting or listening to somebody rip your work to shreds.

Here's my desk this afternoon:

Desk Setup

I finished off the site model with a couple of little massing models. They're pretty rough, but I just wanted to show relative size.

Site Model

Transforming the room from a workspace into a display space is really hard work. I cleared up my tools and packed them under the desk, then hung white butcher paper over the window to give my drawings something to hang off of.

Some people who weren't next to a vertical surface built walls of board, foamcore, sticks, and paper.

Setting up the room

The hard thing is to make the display look like it fits into the design of the project, rather than just being something you stuck your work onto. Here are some of the desk setups in the classroom.

Keith's desk

Ryan's desk

We had to present our projects to various visitors, which meant coming up with a spiel and being able to go through it over and over as new people came by.

Lauren's critique

More desk setups:

Beth's desk

Yimon's desk

Tammy's desk

Jorge's model

A couple of my classmates built this paper enclosure for their desk setups. It was actually quite cozy, if not entirely structurally stable.

Paper enclosure

The best part of the crit day is sitting around talking about model building technique with my classmates. When we're working, it's hard to stop and talk about "how did you do that?" -- crit day is our first real chance to take a breath and look at the bigger picture.

Discussing a model

For whatever reason, this has been a really exhausting couple of weeks, and I'm glad to see it coming to a close. There are only two more class days and then finals next week. Then I get to go home and do heavy labour until the holidays.

Posted by ayse on 11/30/05 at 10:53 PM

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