Week in the life of a 19-year old 2nd year Architecture Student studying and living in Leeds, United Kingdom
Written Izzy @Izzysarchitecture, Edited by Aliya @archistudentnotes
This week we have a week in the life submission from Izzy, a 19 year-old 2nd architecture student studying BA Architecture at Leeds Beckett University.
Would you have tackled the week any differently?
Monday
Monday was a chaotic day that started slowly - most of the day was spent trying to sort out a rent issue with our tenancy!
However I did manage to get some contextual drawings for my first design project as well as a few precedent studies done - I completed a plan and section to scale. I find precedents difficult to format because I always end up in an absolute rabbit hole and start researching all sort of stuff I don’t need!
Note from Aliya @archistudentnotes: Completely get that, but sometimes as long as its a controlled decent down the rabbit hole - it can be helpful! Might lead somewhere you didn’t plan on going but in the end is really helpful!
Tuesday
Tuesday is our design studio day & our longest day in. I made it longer by going in half an hour earlier & staying an extra 1.5! I find once I’m in studio I can be so much more productive than if I’m at home.
I presented and got some feedback on my precedents, and then we started site analysis. I know the city we are investigating but not well, so I’m excited for our trip next week. I began creating a digital map so I can do my analysis over the top; but it is very tedious work! As part of our project we are investigating sustainability within the food cycle so I started getting some research and ideas on that.
Wednesday
On Wednesdays I have a skill session learning Rhino software in the mornings - I find the software very confusing as it’s my first time using 3D software, but alongside the lecturer I find using YouTube tutorials for the parts I missed!
After this I ended up going home and not doing much - once I see my bed I struggle to get the motivation to get out of it! I did sort out some more of my files and got some more “domestic” chores that needed doing sorted.
Note from Aliya @archistudentnotes: Excellent work managing to get some productive chores when you didn’t have the motivation to do anything else!
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Thursday
Our tutor really helpfully cancelled our lesson 15 minutes before it started on Thursday morning which meant I was already sitting in the room ready to go!!
I made my way to a local cafe instead and worked in there for a few hours - sorting out my digital map (time consuming) and continuing to sketch some ideas out for site analysis. I also researched some of the history of the areas we are visiting next week to get my head around how the area came to be.
Friday
I only have two lectures in the afternoon on Fridays but they are quite full on and a lot of information at once!
On Friday morning I just pottered about the house. Went down to my lectures; the first one is Technology and is very engineering and materiality based. It was our first proper lecture of this semester so it was mostly introductory but I can see following the brief that they are going to get more complex! I prefer to take notes on a Google doc on my laptop so they auto save.
I then went across to my context lecture which is about tensions within cities - it’s one of my favourite topics as I’m really interested in sociopolitical factors of architecture, so that one felt like it flew by! Going home on Friday I went to bed early as I was starting work on Saturday at 8am.
And that’s the week!
Thank you so much to Izzy @Izzysarchitecture for this weeks submission. It was great reading a productive but balance week as an architecture student.
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