3-HOUR LONG Lecture...

Thursday 24th of February 2011,  went into class, and thought that I'd have time to work on my sketches or "filter" them or talk to the teacher about them or just work in class.. but we had to go straight to the 315 room where someone gave a very loooong lecture on perspective and then how to use the application Sketch up (which I both already knew very well so it was very boring!!)


there was a break in between but extremely short! like 1 min..

then we just all went back to our classrooms to get our stuff and go...


FINALLY after HOURS and DAYS of DEEP thinking and comparing my treehouses sketches and trying to get inspired, I drew a whole new treehouse model in all sides then I started out on my treehouse model building on Friday and spent almost 6 HOURS in a row working on it all by myself!
with a little music around to help pass time and make it sort of amusing..

AND I FINALLY FINISHED IT!!  after coming home that day and adding a little last touches I finally finished it!!

I'm SO PROUD!! XD  ;D

took pictures of it from all sides.. now I think I'll have to sketch it MORE... oh man...

wondering what we are going to do on Tuesday! presentation ?

Critiques, advice & in-class work...

February 22nd of 2011:

We had an explanation of how our treehouses would be analyzed: how it could be reached? who are the users?what kind of tree is used? etc...
And we also had our sketches of treehouses looked at, critiqued a little, got some advice from the teacher, and got really inspired from an example of a moodboard from Blackboard but also for treehouse design ideas from that huge treehouse book, although the ones inside were all so professional.. they made all of the models and real treehouses look so original, fun, magical, and easy to build!! which was obviously not the case.. but that's the successful part of it: achieving perfection while displaying simplicity & originality ;)

I still don't know which of my treehouse designs I am going to pick; I hope I will soon... I browsed my collages of houses with Linda and "tagged" some outdoor designs that were interesting, other than that I showed her my moodboard that I did by myself just by researching on what it was, and she said I was on the right track, although it wasn't quite exactly what the other teachers have explained on Blackboard.. YAY anyway!! XD


also showed her my Google Sketchup similar 3D model because I wanted to try on a pattern for the wallpaper of my treehouse, but I changed my mind about that now...

more drawings for next time and gotta start the building!!

Hmm.. this one or that one??

I started drawing and sketching a few treehouses.. got "a little" wild with it, but hey! I have to come up with 40 sketches of them!! then choose one to build a real model of!!! this is hard.. I'm not done with all 40 sketches yet, so I'm far from knowing which one which be the one I build as a model...can't wait to figure that out!

Here are some of my favorites...

II. Treehouse Project: Drawing/Modeling for 3D

Treehouses treehouses...

first class about this (Tuesday 17th of feb 11') was introduction to this project, we were told that we have to go out and draw/sketch and photograph trees, so we did that for about 15 min, then came back to class.. then we kept drawing trees and 'refining" our sketches fro the rest of the class because our teacher went to give a lecture.. and when she came back some of the students had already left the classroom, the rest of us were told our homework, and which was basically more and more sketches, of treehouses!!

okay, don't know how this is going to go.. not a fan of architecture.. or building, or anything that has to do with that..

our homework was literally this:

Step One: Ideate/Conceptualize
Find a tree and location for your treehouse. Pay close attention to the site…LOOK...what does it tell you the treehouse should be?

DRAW IT.
PHOTOGRAPH IT & THE SITE. MULTIPLE ANGLES.
PRINT OUT PHOTOS, TRACE OVER/ IDEATION SKETCHES.
SKETCHES, SKETCHES, SKETCHES.
 
Visualize and find ideas for you treehouse by doing the following:

-create an audience persona for the person(s) that will use your treehouse
-write an associated word list to capture and explore initial thoughts of what the tree could be.
-create a moodboard that makes your wordlist visual
-photocopy images of houses, make a collage 

don't know what a moodbaord is or how to make my collage, let's see what happens next...

Last day with the wayfinding project: FINALLY!!

Tuesday the 15th of february 2011 was presentation day of everybody's wayfinding situation and so we all went to the big lecture room in teh Art & Design building and each group from each class of the 8h30 section presented by turn their project.

I really liked everybody's. I thought everyone was very innovative in their solutions to the problems they found and I don't see why they shouldn't really be carried out on campus; I think they should because it would make life much easier for all of us..

My group went almost last, and we did pretty good, we were very proud of our presentation but sadly I was sick so I had no voice and couldn't participate in teh speaking, presentation...

Overall, it was a good day, I kind of like thsi project now that I'm done with it, haha, I feel like I really learned a lot, did something I never did before very independently, and I enjoyed working with my group, Amy & Jerry are the best!

good job guys!

let's hope this next project is easy..

More public critiques?

Today our teacher was absent so we went to Jeremy's class and each group of their class and 2 from our class (including our group) projected their powerpoints or videos and spoke about them, and got feedback from Jeremy and sometimes also the students themselves...
We went last because we had a lot to include in our presentation and we kept discussing that for a while, arranging thing, re-organizing, changing things, replacing this by that, sending files to each otehr and etc.

I really liked some of the presentations done by others though I really think they succeeded in replacing the original current confusing signs with much clearer and simpler ones that are easy and quick to read and understand.

We were told what we did was really good, and got advice about the signs on the floors of the SMA for example, so I guess we'll have to work on that..


otherwise, I had to take pictures of what our group did as work (sketches, the model, etc.) for my process pdf but other than that it's been a good day, good day...


^^

Coming up with solutions & testing them ;D

Me, Amy and Jerry were supposed to meet up during the weekend to go to SMA and test our "solution signs" but the problem was that we didn't come up with them yet, and we were not sure if the museum was open during the weekend or even on Mondays either, plus Jerry would not have had the time to finish up the model of the 3rd and 4rth floors of the SMA by that day, and the weather conditions gave me a feeling that our meeting was going to be canceled so I decided to go the next day we had talked about this in class (so after Thursday, it was a Friday) and so I went that day to SMA with another friend of mine who had already been once to the SMA but who never heard of the Donald Judd art piece (2nd order thinking) and this time i put up the solutions signs (I had come up with at home and printed) to see how the student would orientate herself this time, to analyze how useful the signs are, if they produce the result me and my group were expecting (that the student finds her way easier and faster without any confusion or hesitation).

And the results were as good as we wanted them to be!

here are the signs I made on Word:

here are the images that consisted of my powerpoint presentation for my solution testing part of our wayfinding project:

Just another critique session..

I came late today because the bus driver didn't budge for MORE THAN 30 MINUTES today in the morning and took sooo long to get to campus!!!

anyway nothing much happened while I was on my way, only some groups volunteered to present their situation on the big screen in front of Richard and get feedback, but we were positive about ours so we didn't find that necessary..

we know what we have to do for next time (test our solutions) so we'll have to meet up on sunday probably and see what happens!

Experimenting & Postponing...

I had a friend of mine do the "experiment", which was try to go by herself (with me behind her) to the Spencer Art Museum and find the Donald Judd piece.

So we went and I documented the process by taking pictures and asking her questions, to better analyze teh situation and how she was handling it.
I created a PowerPoint Presentation and sent it to my team members Amy and Jerry, and they really liked it, so it was up to Richard and the other teachers now to tell me how I've done on this job.

Here are the images that make up my whole PPT presentation:

Unfortunately , I didn't get to meet up with my team because of the canceling of classes on Tuesday February 1st 2011 at night but also Wednesday 2nd of February 2011 because of the bad weather conditions outside... too much snow... WAY too much cold too...

so during that time we had to discuss things via email and text messaging.. pretty fun actually!!

of course the free time we just got should be used to catch up on our work and readings so that's something we obviously had to do too...