2024-05-03T03:29:18-04:00 https://archinect.com/blog/article/21450942/the-end-of-first-year-is-nigh Rebecca Eng 2006-03-19T19:36:39-05:00 >2011-09-23T13:01:05-04:00 <p>Yes, this is my third post and first year has already nearly come to a close. <br><br> We had the crits for our last project on thursday and friday, after an intense week of very little sleep (I never thought first year was supposed to be that hardcore! I hate to think of my sleeping patterns in the years to come..) <br> Our last project was interesting: Urban Live/Work Project. To sum it up in a few words: design a house/office sited on North Gray's Close (a close in Edinburgh's Old Town, with a 12th Century ruin on one side and a bare grassy area on the other) for an architect and her family.<br> I found that I initially thought a lot about the internal planning and the arrangement of spaces rather than the form or how it was to fit in the site. A key element was the idea of 'overlapping' spaces between work and living. I don't know what is the best way to go about desiging something: is it the internal use or the form or the relationship to the site that should predominate? Obviously they are...</p> https://archinect.com/blog/article/21450765/the-retreat Rebecca Eng 2006-01-25T14:34:34-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <p>It's hard to make regular posts when there are so many things to do! <br><br> Well, at least I have made some reasonable progress with my project. I know what my retreat is going to be like; materials, proportions, etc. All I have to do now are drawings and a model - our deadline is wednesday next week, at 17:00! I'm quite pleased with how things are working out actually. We had reviews/tutorials on friday and my tutor seemed pleased with the preliminary drawings I did. He said that it could be a really good project, and didn't really make any criticisms. <br><br> My tutor also showed us 'how to draw' this week, which was useful as they didn't really show us anything before and left it up to ourselves to figure out what to do. <br><br> Another thing I have managed to do this week is my presentation for my architectural history tutorial. We have to do one each semester. It takes quite a lot of researching so I wanted to get it done now rather than later on in the semester when we're probably going to be...</p> https://archinect.com/blog/article/21450729/first-post Rebecca Eng 2006-01-18T12:27:19-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <p>Right, this is my first post as part of the school blog project...<br><br> We started back at school a week and a half ago. My second semester at Edinburgh and of Architecture seems to have gone quite... satisfactorally. To be honest I haven't produced a lot of work yet, but I just can't seem to get into it. I always seem to take a long time to get started on a project, but once I get stuck in I can work for hours on end. <br><br> We started our current project - The Retreat - last semester. We had to create an object 'that you find comfort in viewing/using, are amused by, enjoy touching, etc. The object could be the ambodiment/materialization of a ritual (of retreat).' We also had a mapping project; this map could look at the journey to/around the island, various ethereal qualities, the landscape, etc. of the site - Cramond Island, in the Firth of Forth (half an hour from Edinburgh City Centre). I was pleased with what I produced for these two assignments so it's quite frustrating when I don't k...</p>