Week in the life of a 20-Year old Architecture Student living in New Zealand
Written by Anonymous, Edited by Aliya @archistudentnotes
This week we have an anonymous submission from a 20-year old student working towards an upcoming group presentation with a very quick turnaround! Would you have tackled the week any differently?
Monday
On Monday we found out we were doing what they were calling a vertical design studio. This included all three year groups. We were meant to find out last week - they were gonna send us an email, but because of technical issues, only the tutors got the email, no students.
So they had to email all of us Monday morning when they found out (about 9am when it was meant to start) and asked us to come ASAP. When we finally got there, we got into groups of 6-7, 2 from each year group, and got given a case study to look into (which one of the members in my group pretty much finished before we even left).
We then went to the site (on our campus) where they told us what we had to design and that we had a week to complete it. We talked in our groups and just took in all the information that they had given us. By that time it was about time to head home, so our group had a quick meeting and agreed to come up with some concepts overnight to present to the group on Tuesday.
Tuesday
On Tuesday we met in the morning and shared our concept ideas and started to put them together. Two people from our group went up and presented the case study to the tutors and clients. (They did amazing) and then we went back to putting the concepts together and finding ways to make it work. We mostly talked all that day trying to solve the problems that popped up and make it work altogether. And scanned some of the drawings to put on a slide for the next day.
Wednesday
On Wednesday, we presented our concept.
This was going to be the last presentation before Friday when we had to show the final concept idea.
We got some really good feedback which helped us go back and adjust it to fit their needs. This ended up making it quite basic, but considering we don’t think they have a massive budget for this (they never gave us any idea of the budget which made it a bit hard) we didn’t think it would matter too much. We still tried to add in some more interesting bits which could be optional or added on later if wanted/needed. We also started work on the model which they wanted at 1:10 scale which was very interesting to work with. The two year threes did the CAD models.
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Thursday
On Thursday we spend majority of the day on the model. Sitting/lying on the ground trying to get it finished as much as possible so there wasn’t much to do the next morning before the hand in.
The CAD models were finished and put on the slideshow ready for Friday.
Friday
On Friday I had work for my part time job from 8:30am (I thought I had the day off from uni so I agreed to work and then found out later that I in fact did not have the day off) but because I work in retail, and it was during the week, barely anyone was there shopping so my manager let me go early (meant to finish at 5pm, left at 12:30pm). I headed off to uni to help with the presentation which I had emailed my tutor saying I had work and wasn’t going to make it at all, so I think she was a bit confused but she was also too busy sorting everything else out to say anything.
Overall the presentation went pretty well and I managed to go home early and take a much needed nap (I was running on like 4hrs sleep and had to get up half an hr earlier than I am used to so I was exhausted).
And that’s the week!
Thank you so much to our first ever student submission here at ArchiWeek!
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