Monday 7th November 2016
On the first day of our trip to Brighton University for an architectural design week, we were first given a brief on what the project would be and a schedule pack on the events of the week. We also were put in groups, 3 university students and 3 hazelwick students (including me). However, due to complications one member of the group (a hazelwick student) had to leave the process. Hence, this meant that as a group we would have to work harder to catch up on what would have been a team of 6. In our groups, we then attended an informative lecture on our task giving us an introduction to bridges, e.g. the different types of bridges. When we got back into our groups we visited the site to where our bridge would be placed, which also gave us ideas on what our bridge would look like and how we would design it for Fridays presentation. At the end of the day, our group captain gave us individual tasks to do for the next time we would meet (which was Wednesday the same week). My task was to design a few initial ideas of bridges and to do further research on bridges (especially footbridges) and to see whether they are compression or tension bridges.
Wednesday 9th November 2016
On the second day of the architectural design project to Brighton University, everyone had to bring in the work they needed to complete so that we could embark on the next task. Each member from the group I was in, had designed some initial designs of bridges and my teammate and I brought in the further research we needed to do. The university teammates had the measurements of what size the bridge should be, as the final model would have to be at a specific scale. In addition, another member of the group brought in the materials needed to design the model. During the course of the day the team captain gave us new tasks for the day. Two of us were working on the model; first making a draft model to see if the design would work, two others working on the poster and I was doing most of the sketching for our final bridge design.
Friday 11th November 2016
For the last day of the design week, when we arrived at the university and met up with the rest of the group, everyone was finishing the last few bits of their individual tasks. For example after our model had been assembled, my teammate spray painted the model silver to represent the material steel as it was the main material of our final bridge design. Furthermore the team captain and another partner were adding the last parts to the poster and I was finishing the sketch of my group final design. Almost one hour before the presentations, my group and I had finished all our tasks and we prepared for our presentation.
Overall this architectural design week has shown me the tremendous amount of hard work needed to successfully reach a standard university level, and that effort really does achieve.
