I'm an architecture student until now I been prepare my first project so I'd like to ask you to tell me about your first experience in architecture project
I got pretty drunk, and thing kind of got crazy... I woke up the next morning and had bits of balsa stuck all over my fingers, and some half baked ill-informed de-constructivist mess in front of me. Awkward.
On my first project - a kitchen / dining addition to a ranch house - the contractor disappeared in the middle of construction to take on a bigger project. It was impossible to get anyone to finish because they all assumed the first guy left after not getting paid.
First arch project was learning how to lay graphite (2mm 2H & 2B) and cross hatch with ink. This was set during frosh... so it was a full week before we even had our first real class. Total time spend was up from 30hrs and you were given one of 4 grades: 100%, 50%, 0, or incomplete (inc meant you had only one chance to resubmit while a 50 or 0 gave you unlimited). The following week we had to hand render with 2H graphite a photo realistic tabloid size section of concrete. Grading was the same as the first assignment. About 6 to 10 students drop out within that first week.
But hey... those 20-hours spent pressing the render button on sketchup is really hard.
Sep 28, 17 9:09 am ·
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JLC-1
we had a materials class where we had to go out an reproduce a piece of anything , but as close to reality as possible - color pencils, graphite, a lot of overlaid textures - people in the streets looked at us like we were crazy.
I never stopped taping sheets together, that was why it was never-ending. Like the song: This is the plan that never ends. It goes on and on my friend. Somebody started drawing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue drawing it forever just because this is the plan that never ends. It goes on and on my friend. Somebody started drawing it...
Sep 28, 17 12:28 pm ·
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thatsthat
kudos to you, chickaletta for the song. Now it's in my head!
In high school, each person in my history class was assigned a building in DC. We had to build a model of our building and write a short history. Then in class the teacher had a huge plan to scale of DC and we took turns putting our buildings on "the site" and standing back to discuss/look at how the city was growing up through the years.
Same teacher different history class, we had to "design" our own castle and develop a floor plan with each part labeled with the correct names and build a scale model.
Sep 28, 17 2:15 pm ·
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Like so many first experiences it was awkward, scary, exciting and over before I knew it.
I didn't even finish.
I got pretty drunk, and thing kind of got crazy... I woke up the next morning and had bits of balsa stuck all over my fingers, and some half baked ill-informed de-constructivist mess in front of me. Awkward.
On my first project - a kitchen / dining addition to a ranch house - the contractor disappeared in the middle of construction to take on a bigger project. It was impossible to get anyone to finish because they all assumed the first guy left after not getting paid.
First arch project was learning how to lay graphite (2mm 2H & 2B) and cross hatch with ink. This was set during frosh... so it was a full week before we even had our first real class. Total time spend was up from 30hrs and you were given one of 4 grades: 100%, 50%, 0, or incomplete (inc meant you had only one chance to resubmit while a 50 or 0 gave you unlimited). The following week we had to hand render with 2H graphite a photo realistic tabloid size section of concrete. Grading was the same as the first assignment. About 6 to 10 students drop out within that first week.
But hey... those 20-hours spent pressing the render button on sketchup is really hard.
we had a materials class where we had to go out an reproduce a piece of anything , but as close to reality as possible - color pencils, graphite, a lot of overlaid textures - people in the streets looked at us like we were crazy.
When I was 10, I taped about 100 sheets of paper together and drew a never-ending floor plan.
Unless you made a Mobius strip it had two ends.
I never stopped taping sheets together, that was why it was never-ending. Like the song: This is the plan that never ends. It goes on and on my friend. Somebody started drawing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue drawing it forever just because this is the plan that never ends. It goes on and on my friend. Somebody started drawing it...
kudos to you, chickaletta for the song. Now it's in my head!
sorry...
In high school, each person in my history class was assigned a building in DC. We had to build a model of our building and write a short history. Then in class the teacher had a huge plan to scale of DC and we took turns putting our buildings on "the site" and standing back to discuss/look at how the city was growing up through the years.
Same teacher different history class, we had to "design" our own castle and develop a floor plan with each part labeled with the correct names and build a scale model.
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