Day1 Senior Project Blog

Oscar Bush, May 9th

    We arrived in Montreal late Saturday night and were warmly welcomed by the Sochaczevski family. We were able to sleep in Sunday and gather our bearings before our first day at the office on Monday. We had a late start Monday arriving to the office around 10:00 am and getting rolling around 10:30 am. David started us off with a well-put-together presentation on Design and the basics we would need to consider while trying to create a space. We put that to work as he took us around the mall (the office is in a mall) and we worked on sketching our perception of spaces. At 2:00 pm Elijah realized that he had to head to his driver's lesson, so we took a two hour break and I took the metro back to the house. Sketching the schematics of the train and station under David’s instruction. After a quick workout, I met Elijah back at the office, walking in proudly after using the Montreal public transportation system alone for the first time. Starting at 4:30 pm we got back to work and David explained to us the many aspects that went into becoming an architect. We realized that design, the part that architects have the most passion for and is practice in schools, is a mear 10% of the job. We discussed starchitects and architectural licensing until 6:45 pm when Elijah and I were free to go, utterly exhausted. We decided to make another dent in our hours that evening and tried out one of the TV shows that David recommended, Abstract, the Art of Design we watched about one and a half episodes and went straight to bed.

7.5 hours

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