Day 2 Senior Project Blog

 Oscar Bush May 10th

On day two we arrived at the office at 9:30 am and started work at 10:00 am. This day started with refining our sketching skills with countless exercises that David provided. We continued our work with idea sketching and introduced “sketching with the right side of the brain.” The practice of separating the functions of our right and left sedes of the brain, and focusing on the right side of your brains recognition of shapes. David then entrusted us with some fieldwork, sending us to measure a site hallway so he would know how much siding to order. When he later joined us we found out that our measurements were far off. We walked the site and discussed our mistakes, as well as other site management details until 1:30 when we took a 20-minute break to return to the office. From 1:50-3:00, we watched and discussed a video and our personal favorite pieces of architecture. This took us to our favorite part of the day. With all that we had learned so far regarding what to consider when designing/planning a build, David released us to design a bridge that would be vital to a possible renovation in the mall. Elijah and I spent hours drawing out schematics for this bridge that would have to be structurally integral, function;, and also speak the language of the mall, meaning it followed the design patterns already in place so it doesn't stand out. We roamed the mall for a while trying to understand this language. Mentally drained after our bridge planning session we took the metro home at 5:30


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