Sorry i mean i do become lazy for doing it **

you have to know what's in the box in order to be able to think out of it..

start with asking yourself what does excite you about architecture?

I procrastinate on all design projects and fortunately for me I can model anything in 3D in an hour or so, so I've made days of work in hours....can you do that by hand or in computer?

forcing yourself to design is tough if you are not inspired.

looking for ideas, read the Archinect piece on Steven Holl (recent feature.  I wait for the ideas while doing other things, enter a hypogonic state (half awake/half dream)).  The other things are often research into the history of the site or examples of same project.

once a vision occurs, more or less, I post rationalize it as a concept via the the project brief and research.

Immanual Kant would take long walks to get his brain working.  So do a combo of essentially meditiation to dream state and walking and before you know the concepts won't stop coming.

nothing wrong with procrastinating, nearly all creative types do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

You can model anything in 1 hour? Really now.

Spend time learning about things outside of architecture.  

archiwutm8 not sure why thats hard to believe....high rise, single dwelling house, kitchens etc.............Spoons is on to something,many architects look to other fields for inspiration which is where you can get your concepts from. for instance you could lool a plant and how it grows

for instance archiwut, and razan take this as a tutorial, the BIG or SHOP images recently posted on Archinect news would only take me or an average student 1 hour to produce (this excludes actually designing it of coursr)......but lets say you have no clue what to do,open up sketchup, rhino,Max, whatever, take a base geometry as an envelope,manipulate to resemble some design process,subtract, add etc.....put detailed txture maps on it, lighting, render, take it into Photoshop, drop plants,people, some effects and boom you have eye candy......then as you prep for your studio professor to come around come up with a really good narrative. 1 hour worth of work while everyone lost sleep and in the End practically no one can tell the difference.

I agree with Olaf,

for instance in our previous studio last year our teacher asked us each to dedicate the building for a person who inspires us , in the concept phase (more than a month) my teacher only focused on who was our source of inspiration.. I were lost at the beginning until I got to know Da Venci, after that I used to spend many hours of my day just seeing and doing things that inspire me in life, mediating, and the ideas never stopped flowing to mind since then :))

the key is inspiration.. 

archiwumt- design = modeling?! really??  my 10 years old brother can do you a beautiful model now on sketchup in less than an hour 

Zaina what the hell are on about? Who said modelling was design? And it is designing btw. It depends on what you think is beautiful. Olaf - you said anytime in one hour, as someone trying to get into modelling for the media and entertainment industry I know it doesn't take one hour to get anything half decent. However I realise you mean for student work.

archiwumt- many students and some designers still think so, I just wished to make sure the OP don't get the wrong message.. 

Thank you all for your comments :) 

i personly when i do my projects its take me for ever to finish it mayve cuz 

i don't have deadline for my self

but i see many students they finish their projects very early 1 week before the deadline 

And i discovred who finish eary , get a lot of feedbacks from other 

instructors :))). I wish i can get the concept in 2 days . I feel if i got the concept fast

everything well be easy . Maybe the plan will take time cuz of the layout etc 

and i have a question about devideing inside the plan in really creative way

do you know some tricks to do this haha i always stack in deviding as well :))) 

media and entertainment industry - that's another world, i work in Max and can tell you a character animation is 100 times more tedious than morphological buildings...so we on same page

Razan - sounds like maybe you should just work things out instead of trying to find a concept.  start with composition like Steven Holl says here

Steven Holl: Maybe it’s in the reverse. Because I also try to work from almost a dream state, a kind of intuitive stage, where you’re not trying to make it an a priori to do a creative effort. Every morning, my exercise, almost like exercising the subjective, is to work a couple of hours, one hour at minimum, to do drawings. Those can relate to a building that’s in process and other ones can be just studies. I will see certain things emerge. Sometimes the word comes first, and then there’s all these shapes, and then I kind of re-imagine the text. And then afterwards, maybe for my classes, I sit and write more descriptive and theoretical propositions. But as a kind of daily process, I’m not working from a template—there’s an openness, there’s a kind of mystery, an unknown that might just appear. That’s actually what’s exciting.

........ the "Non Squinter" should comment on this 

^ was that a hint to me?

yes, I know how much you find students annoying..

here you go, a 2nd year student who can't make a concept or worse..a plan!

Haha my english is bad :O ?

Thanks a lot olaf and everyone.  i will try my best :))