17 April, 2008

Well, there's 1352 guitar pickers in Nashville...




Architecture studio is (from what I invisioned) very similar to Landscape Architecture because over the period of the semester, we are constantly dealing with scope creep. Scope creep is one of my favorite terms when it comes to studio, even though it can get frustrating towards the end. So the easiest way to overcome this scope creep, other than adding Wild Turkey to your agenda for each day, is to start at the beginning and tell yourself that you are going to go above and beyond what they are asking and add additional items and illustratives/sections/diagrams to your final boards, because in essence, the clients would much rather look at pictures of what the site could become, as opposed to trying to figure out the area in plan view, no matter how good your renderings appear, because this place you are designing is to be experienced with the townspeople's feet on the ground, not directly above the site in an airplane.


So back to scope creep. This semester we kind of had a good idea as to where our work was headed, as long as the syllabus was near, however, it seems that almost weekly our project takes another turn in another direction, down a dark alley, with a low tank of gas. So, by the time we get ourselves out of the first dark alley and we have something new and fresh, we are sent down a different alley to better the more fresh ideas... or, just start over again. Completely. Usually the second scenario is the case. So our brains are literally running around in circles trying to find something new and fresh, but why? Every week we hit another wall... and are sent down another damn alley with no direction and no gas. Sometimes makes me wanna shove a pool stick somewhere... Yo bromo, yo bromo. But really... I actually thought we were on to something the week before the final... and of course there is always tweaking to be done, right? No. We should definitely have something somewhat completely different in four days. Something sexy and, maybe, floating islands, that travel from place to place. Whoa. JC, I know you are just trying to help, but you are out of the scope creep zone. You really do want us to work 18 hours a day, shit shower and eat for 2, and sleep for 4, don't you? For the next 3 weeks...


Welp, hopefully some good brainstorming will come on our semi-new project that we are designing in 4 days. I am no longer excited about this, because there are new things that don't quite make sense to me, I am getting tired of the reoccuring poo, and I am frustrated because I don't like working last minute. And, we are still lacking a title and program/project statement or whichever one we are missing...

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