happy cinco de mayo aka happy end of the semester!

so yesterday marked our last and final presentation of our fourth year! wow...i can't believe that we made it through this program..it sure has been quite a roller coaster ride. so many ups + downs when we thought projects would never end, sunrises were sunsets, and when we rarely slept- we thought were inside our sketchup models. even though we has countless sleepless nights- i wouldn't change anything about my time here in the i.arc program- every project has taught me something and has made me into the designer that i am today.

anyway....yesterday our studio held a critique where we shared with fellow students, faculty, and guest critics both our group project and our individual projects. the poster below shows our final group design of our proposed 'school of architecture' through perspectives, floor plans, + a section. i feel like our presentation went really well- we received some thought provoking comments and things we could have done differently on our poster relating to presentation graphics. but overall- i am very pleased with our group's outcome.



below is my individual design of the cafe. since most of the semester was dedicated to the overall design of the building- we had about a month to design our individual interior space. it was just impossible to detail + design the entire space- so i decided to focus on the ceiling, booth dividers, and the menu systems. my designs + details steamed from the architecture + geometry of the overall building. i did this by continuing the exterior atrium wall into my space as a ceiling plane that turns into a menu system. within the poster below- there is an exploded ceiling axon that explains the components of the ceiling system. the details of the booth divider and menu system is shown both through the perspectives and sections. i am going to continue the use of cedar planks from the front facade hallway into the cafe- but instead of running the planks horizontally like in the hallway- the planks will run vertically forming the menu system + booth divider.