(*LIE, I'M IN STUDIO RIGHT NOW)
Turns out, second year studio is more of a part-time job that we're not getting paid for. Which isn't too big of a deal, considering my other classes aren't incredibly time consuming, or difficult*.
(*ANOTHER LIE, ENGINEERING IS HORRIFYING)
All in all, this year is turning out to be pretty good so far. In fact, it started out with the Arch school's annual Corbelletti Competition, a design competition in which we have to come up with a design (for something on campus, this year it was an art gallery in the Arts area) and present an entirely hand-drawn design board (24" x 36") in about a week. Long story short, out of over 200 people (most of the students in the school), I tied with another kid in my year for 6th/7th place, and also the best out of our year. I'll post pictures and explain my design idea once I get my board back.
Our actual studio project for this first rotation is to design a jewelry store in downtown State College, replacing The Clothesline (hypothetically):
Not surprisingly, now that we're design actual spaces (and not lamps, fuck that), I've learned more about architectural design in the past four weeks than I did in one semester last year.
Some info to know beforehand: I'm designing a store for selling crystal, and working off of the theme of fluidity in the metal molding that typically frames a piece of crystal jewelry, like these:
Anyways, here are a few progress photos of my design (past versions, and the newly updated one):
These are probably really unclear as to what exactly is happening; but fear not. I'll post a much clearer blog on the whole project once it's done in a week or two.
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