For this latest review, Nick had invited Ian Fletcher, a tutor in undergraduate architecture, to be our guest critic.
Joe Mills presenting his work to our studio
In all honesty, I wasn't very happy with the work I presented for this review. It was one of those situations where it felt like the review fell at an awkward time in my project, when I've been in a period of a couple of weeks of pouring many hours into Grasshopper definitions which aren't yet fully finalised to output what I want them to. I'd made a decision that it was more important to keep my focus on that rather than to try and get better drawings for the wall at this stage.
My presentation boards and models
The two perspective section drawings below are a glimpse into one of the Grasshopper modelling avenues that I have been going down, but are not drawings of a quality or style that I would normally choose to present.
Phased construction process perspective section
Inhabited perspective section
I do think that the top one, the phased perspective section, has some potential as a concept for a drawing, but I would want it to be graphically much more refined – as it is here it is basically 'raw' out of Rhino with hardly any Adobe work added. The form in both of these models is just a generic example of what can come out of the Grasshopper definition – I feel happy that I have got that definition mostly working how I want it to, and soon I will then be able to use it in a more sensitive, carefully considered way.
In spite of my negative feelings around this, there were useful elements to the feedback that I got. Ian gave me some good precedents to look into, and pointed out that I could strengthen my argument by having a more specific strategy of what food would be grown and why. He was also really encouraging and positive about my use of physical models with the fabric formwork process, which was a good thing to hear, as I do think that this is one of the main strengths and unique identifiers of my project.
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