Critique & Theory Hour

~Critique~

In critique today for Studio the whole section of first years broke up into three groups, north-side, midtown, and south-side so the groups were smaller and you had more of an intimate critique. My biggest problem in my project was basically color, craft, and the lack of binding agent, my group suggested maybe I use black raffia to bind the diagonal sticks together so they are more stable. I’ll have to figure out the color issue though because there was so much controversy on what it could be. I’ll just have to make many models, or at least one by Friday.

Once we all got back together in the critique room we talked about issues that had arisen with people’s projects such as: Size/Scale, Visualization/Pattern/Form, Defining qualities, and most importantly Focus on our project. Size of the sticks can affect the scale of it’s “box” depending on it, visualization and form give the design interest and purpose, Defining qualities do this as well, and focus on one main idea rather then many in a design. You don’t want it to become overly complicated.

We also learned there are three ways to join things together:
+Join them
+Not Join them
+Put them Between

~Theory Hour~

In today’s Theory hour we had a practicing architect named John Linn come in with a presentation on Sustainability and Architecture 2030. Not knowing what to expect I was very surprise when the PowerPoint started and the first slide said, “We are Fish” and had a background of Tropical Fish. He then asked us what we would see if we were fish, going on to show us things fish would normally see to the crazy things humans do that they might see to make a point on our affect on the environment and how it is viewed by others not even of our race even. He did this again but using birds instead of fish later.

Moving from fish, Mr. Linn explained that the Human race is a storm, changing things in its path as it goes along inhabiting the earth. We are an agent of transformation, we constitute destruction and then construction, we are a dynamic event, but yet we truly are not a place or thing. These ideas are also that of the Impact of sustainability as well according to Linn. Sustainability is an Agent of transformation, construction after destruction, a dynamic event in the world, and also not quite a place or a thing even. These similarities just go on to show that the human race can change where the world is going, they can be the storm that can start the impact of sustainability for our world.

Lastly, Architecture 2030 is the process of getting buildings to give off no carbon releases (and reduce Carbon Footprint) and become neutral by the year 2030. Starting now especially at a gradual rate to decline the use so it won’t become such a drastic change for everyone. This is just one of the many programs being formed to help along the storm of humanity and impact society with sustainability.