An Observatory that we had to design located somewhere down South of New Zealand.. Sorry really can’t remember exactly where. But yeah, I kinda lost all the technical drawings for it displaying how it works in terms of solar heat gain, and passive systems that I designed. We were to design a sabbatical lodge for both a geologist and an astronomer. There was a crazy amount time put into planning the spaces such as allocating areas for their equipment, drying areas for wet gear for the geologist, sound barriers to prevent disturbance when geologist sleeps as astronomer often works at night, and stuff like that.
The techniques I use in communicating my designs aren’t at all fixed. Especially during my first year I remember that I decided to experiment with as wide a variety of media as possible. From computer generated design to watercolour, from modelling with clay to creating walkthrough movies, from acting and communicating my design intensions to photography; I made that concerted effort to learn as deeply and as widely as I could.
All in all, from this project I learnt a huge amount of planning techniques, had great satisfaction through the splash of watercolours, working in the grungy 1st year workshop and the great agony of pain staking technical pen drawings!! Yes.. Definitely enjoyed every bit of it.!
