PROJECT 2 S06 & Some advice from DRN

Project 2 SEM06 is a TOY STORE. Click here for the project brief! Introduction is on monday and then followed by the movie show.

DRN Advice>>> Your first project is being assessed. Clearly it shows that most of you are still not confident with sturctures and its implication with design. For your second project, you MUST learn to design with structural knowledge. Remember in architectural design, the formula below is important:

Structure <=> Space/s <=> Form

As Technicians and Technical Assistant you must be able to think in terms of structure, of course not as detail as the engineer, but to understand it enough to use it confidently in design. Yes, the Toy Store is an interesting project, so please design interesting spaces (fantasy) but please design logically (reality). Use your SnA experience and learn from your mistakes. As Arch students from the politechnics, our strength MUST be a balance between the technical and design factor.

We purposely place SnA as the first project to evaluate the students and more importantly let the students evaluate their technical/design capability. SnA is a wake-up call! So please wake-up! Be ready to enter the second project and more, more, more importantly, the OUTSIDE WORLD (the world of work).

There are a lot of things we can't teach you as you are already in sem06, we can't go back to teach you structure, etc. You and your friends must find ways to teach yourselves. I understand that most of you do not even know each other, this is sad, very sad! Learning cannot take place if students are shy to learn from each other. Let's hope 'PUOdesign-Fest 2010' will help out in that area.

Please respond/comment and tell us how you feel about yourselves, your progress and future plans?