We are currently in the middle of
the worst week in the semester.
Everything we have been working on this entire semester is due in two
days. Finished models, finished site
models, finished boards with a ton of graphics that aren’t finished yet, and a
finished PowerPoint presentation all due this Friday. We are all feeling the stress and staying up
until the sun rises every night.
Sleeping through classes the next morning, in short we are all a
mess. Some people seem to handle this
week better than others. There are
always those students that have everything done and then never stop complaining
to everyone else about how much they still have to do. All it does is add to the stress of everyone
else who has to listen to them. Every time you ask them what they have left to
do, they say one little thing and you give them that look like, are you kidding
me? Then they always try to add other things to make you feel better. Then they ask you what you have left to do
and you just sigh.
I have
been doing this for five years now and every semester without fail, there is always
panic. There is always a freak out point
where you are sure you are going to fail and be laughed right out of your
review. By some miracle, I’m still here
and for some reason, I’m still doing this to myself. This is always the time of year when I
question what I’m doing with my life and if it is all worth it. I still really don’t know to tell you the
truth. I don’t know where I will be this
time next year or if I will even want to keep working in architecture. Who knows? Maybe I will actually love it,
here’s hoping.
At the
moment, I’m working on a rendered section perspective of a 33-storey building
that I have been designing all semester.
First I built the digital model in Google Sketchup, then I brought it
into 3DS max to render it. Basically I
just shoot for the natural shadows formed by the daylighting system you set up
in 3DS then let Photoshop do all the work, well I do all the work. I just feel like I have more direct control
of materiality in Photoshop. Most people
just do it in Revit, but I haven’t used Revit in a very long time. It all depends on how you learned in
undergrad and what you are comfortable with.
So basically, I have to finish this rendering, do two more renderings,
make all the floor plans presentation ready, update all the diagrams from mid
review, draw wall section details and put everything on a board and cross my
fingers during plotting.
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