Friday, September 26, 2008

Lets put a curtain on.........THAT WALL!!


This week has been an interesting week. I have been thinking of the idea of using curtain walls for my project in Studio. Curtain walls hang off of a building and have to be applied correctly or a lot of disasters could happen with that building. They don't carry the dead loads of the building and they should contain the shield and the wrap. However on my studio project I didn't know much about curtain walls so I kinda trashed the idea because I didn't want to use them incorrectly. This week has been interesting because in building science we had a more in depth lesson on curtain walls. Now i seem more confident in using them; however, I believe I still need a little more research on the subject, but I have seen some interesting uses of the curtain. One neat little building is the Chinese Central Television Headquarters which uses curtain walls in a unique way. I am still researching this curtain wall and others structures that use them in order to get the full grasp of the subject. More to come....

Friday, September 19, 2008

THE POINT PROJECT!!!!


Today I was walking upstairs to the second year studio and I couldn't help but notice that they were doing the point project. I HATED THAT PROJECT!! Well at first I did because my ideas weren't coming together like I wanted them to. As I was looking at those second years developing their concepts and models for their Point project, it brought back memories of me doing my Point project. My first idea was TOTALLY different from my final results. Oh yes!! In the end, I believe the Point is one of my best projects that I have done so far at Hampton. It just reminded me of all the PROCESS WORK that I did just to complete that project. It was definitely a lot; however, it was definitely worth it!!!