Due to our modelling having taken longer than expected – with a pressurised session due for tomorrow morning as we race towards the deadline – I find myself at home, up late, working on content for the poster that supports our design.
Knowing that George is home working on the floorplan and technical data, and Marcela working up our precedence studies and concepts, I have the overall sketches, performance schematic, room sizes and infrastructure plan to complete, to add to our poster design tomorrow morning when we meet.
I’ve added a couple of designs also for our flat pack furniture – needed to maximise shipping container space – plus a quick logo for our building – the Life Shell.
Could this last minute work have been avoided? If we were to do this again next week then I’m certain we’d structure our weeks schedule more strictly.
We probably spent a touch too long on design and planning, although slightly conflicting information from our lecturers had us scratching our heads, lack of thought for how we’d actually build the model resulted in time that could have been used more efficiently, and leaving the poster till the end all were roadbumps as we’ve travelled through the week.
The team has worked well I think, although there was a difference of opinion at the design decision stage, a good compromise was worked out and I must say I’m pleased with our structure design which has a lot more performance positives than I saw originally – where at the start of the week I was more for a conventional ‘boring’ approach that simply fulfilled functional requirements.