I guess to this point I kinda of know what I can do better with all my projects. But I have to admit that not all projects are supposed to be perfect - there is no perfect design, it is just about how someone interpret the design and appreciate the cleverness in the design.
For this last project, still the cleverness is missing. Though the circulation is invented to reinvest the spatial property, but the whole thing is not responsive to the thermal impacts, and the whole thing is totally not thermal dynamically driven. The excuse I have is that it was thrown to me two weeks ago when I could not really understand and formulate my take on the continuous surface that my instructor liked. I should have been more opinionated about my design. I had a beautiful project with the hidden room, when she was not pushy and I developed my design to achieve the interesting spatial quality. Being systematic and diagramtic is not a problem, same with the parametric design method. actually the space created through diagram operation can be really beautiful, after all, architecture can be a diagram of all the forces. The cleverness, then, is the way we manipulate the spatial arrangement - for the most time the sectional property within a volume. The plan is the flow, while the section is the essence of variation in spatial experience.
I cannot tell if it is a good thing for me as a designer to have such a dictating instructor, and I have tried several method in design - antithesis leading concept, diagramatical operation, systematic aggregation, form dictating strategy...
After all, be self critical and radical, and always seek the cleverness in the design - being aware of what space you are creating, no matter what approach I am using and what path the project is leading towards, but accept mediocrity.
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