Back for the now weekly post:

We've been very busy over at UM -- less than ten days before the final presentation! On Monday we had a crit with all of our professors, UM + USC. It went really well, and they pushed us all in different directions - hoping we would explore areas we had not yet. Some of us were told to make more models, some were told to explore larger structures, and some to study materials in more depth. We are all expected to have a full height detail drawing at 1:20 for our final review, which means a fairly in depth knowledge of the construction of our project. We are also expected to produce a budget, meaning we all must find creative and inexpensive structural solutions. Quite a new task for us since we are used to designing fictional projects! Definitely a useful exercise.

Thursday we had studio and desk crits with our various professors. We paused to crits to finally take a group photo on the steps of the Fakulti of Alam Bina (the Built Environment), so here's everyone!:


In addition, we at the blog are going to be trying something new over the next ten days. Each day we are going to have a different group blog about their project and the overall experience. Hopefully it will give some insight into what our studio culture is like. We'd love feedback! Let us know how it's going or if there are any questions. We'll be starting soon..