Experiment 1 Feedback

The intention of publishing the feedback below is so that all students can benefit by understanding the strengths and weakness’ of a range of projects. Please take the time to review other students work with these comments in mind. If you have any questions or would like any further clarification don’t hesitate to ask me during the studio session.

Daniella
Key strength of the scheme:
A high level of complexity handled quite well, with some thought to the structural elements.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
The Animations aren’t very controlled, generally passing through walls, and not focussing on significant “moments” of your architecture.

Arlene
Key strength of the scheme:
Excellent consideration to materials and thinking of your building as a single entity.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
Spaces not fully defined, it seems as if the gallery was just tacked on at the end.

Rina
Key strength of the scheme:
Good materials, nice play with your stairs, interesting take on form.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
Videos supposed to be 10 seconds only, and no progressive sections were shown.

Yvette
Key strength of the scheme:
Good textures, and thought to materials. Good texture tiling and consideration to size of your materials. Some spatial elements seem well considered.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
Animations weren’t 10 seconds, too quick, didn’t show anything significant. Spaces seem to be a little bit random at times, with lots of geometry used without a clear purpose.

Barnaby
Key strength of the scheme:
Excellent use of repetition and symmetry, creating strong visuals within your spaces.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
It seems at times that the spaces weren’t quite defined well enough, rather the building being more about circulation and movement than usable spaces.

Claire
Key strength of the scheme:
Your initial words for the artist’s works were thoughtful, and showed promise for your thought to your spaces. You have an eclectic take on design.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
Spaces never fully refined, seems a little thrown together at the end. More time and thought on your final scheme could have helped to realise your design intent, that only just started to emerge at the end.

Jason
Key strength of the scheme:
Interesting eventuating form shows good progression and improvement through the session.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
Animations are not ten seconds, only one animation shows a progressive section. Some of the spaces don’t seem particularly comfortable to be in or move through.

Eugene
Key strength of the scheme:
Well controlled animations, showing significant moments, such as the well thought out structure of your buildings. Excellent development through the project.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
One thing, maybe the spaces seem overly “busy” at times. It could have been worth taking stock of the whole project at the end, and paring it back to just the awesome bits.

Joey
Key strength of the scheme:
Good play with form, providing some very interesting “moments” in your spaces. Some excellent pieces can be found in your design.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
No progressive sections in your animations, never really get a good “feel” for what the inside of your space is.

Sara
Key strength of the scheme:
A definite progression to the work throughout the project, with the theme constantly being developed and modified.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
The spaces weren’t never really fully developed, with the feel that elements were placed in because they had to be there, more time and refinement could have helped with your design.

Giselle
Key strength of the scheme:
Excellent creativity, and thought to form and materials. Some nice ideas about transitions of spaces.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
Animations aren’t smooth, as if you don’t have scene transitions enabled, Also should only be 10 seconds. Spaces can appear a little confusing at times, but the emergent whole grows on you.

Nazlee
Key strength of the scheme:
Interesting play on form and material. Some really unique takes on defining your spaces. Excellent video.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
There don’t appear to be walls in your above ground spaces. Possibly some of your ideas could have been developed more to highlight their particular strengths.

Bassel
Key strength of the scheme:
This is a unique and difficult concept realised quite well. A good juxtaposition of materials and textures, incorporated in an interesting way.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
Spaces lack a sense of structure to suggest what might be holding your building up.

Rosalind
Key strength of the scheme:
Simple forms can be quite powerful. There is a good sense of form and space with your above ground space, you can imagine light pouring through the curved glass roof in quite spectacular ways.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
Supposed to have 3x10 second videos, not 1x90 second video. Overall form is a bit underdeveloped, never really extending your creativity to what it could have been. More effort is needed to realise your ideas.

Rainis
Key strength of the scheme:
Excellent play on unique structural forms. A very “complete” set of spaces that you can imagine in reality.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
As the final scheme developed, it seems that you lost some of the initial drama that was evident in you previous versions, or possibly your image captures just didn’t show some of your elements in the best possible light.

Jarlath
Key strength of the scheme:
A strong sense of reality, showing a clear idea of these buildings being “buildable”. A good sense of your experimentation on your blog.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
Interiors seem under-developed, never realising a good sense of circulation through your buildings. You need more images showing off your spaces as a person would inhabit them.

Phillip
Key strength of the scheme:
There are bold strokes of form and structure as your roof pierces into your interior spaces. Excellent last minute dash to realise some nice concepts.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
Time constraints at the end show your quite interesting forms to be rushed. If you had carried the vigour that you showed in the final week through the entire project this could have been an awesome set of spaces.

Tim
Key strength of the scheme:
Excellent progression and development to your work, showing a real dedication to improvement of your design. This relentlessness has eventuated in a elegant piece of architecture.
Most significant weakness of the scheme:
There is some wasted space in your design, especially at the converging points of your walls in the upper spaces, this could have been handled with a bit more care.