Week 2 reflection Blog

Oscar Bush

2nd Weekly Reflection

5/22/22


Having just wrapped up week two of senior project, I feel proud of my progression as a designer and my abilty to stay on track with the goals we set for ourselves. This week we have focuses mainly on sketching and I am seeing the progress in both Elijah and my work. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, we ended up taking field trips. I am starting to notice that all of our visits started with sketching out the property soon after we entered. It is clear that the ability to transer the main features of your surrounding quickly onto paper is important in design, and especially design observation. Our visit to McGill University was truly a unique experience where we were able to spend time with a renowned astro physicist and she genuinely was interested in our opinions regarding design. We walked the premises of her building, and one of the architect she hired, pointing out design features that David told us to look for. I was pleasantly surprised by all these field trips because David always keeps the next day a mystery until we are there. I was also surprised just how many places he could find to go to that pertained so well to our project. I think that going out of this week I have improved as an artist and as design ingterpreter greatly. This puts me on perfect track to complete my goals since both of these have come with experience as an architect. I am proud of both myself and Elijah and I am excited to see what the final two days will bring.

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