Friday 11th: REPORTING

Today we will be writing. The first thing will be a report of your own work.

A good report finds: Facts; Aims (Original, Subsidiary) (Achieved, Ignored); Merits, Discoveries, Potentials (Explored, Opened, Unexplored); Challenges (Proposed, Accepted, Overcome, Pending); Alternatives; Diversions, Mistakes and Shortcomings; Assumptions (False or otherwise); what you have learned and what skills you have to develop further.

Format: pdf, A4 printable, max 5 pages, min 1500 words.

Seasonal Exams

Friday the 11^th and the following two weeks, we will be doing short exercises in the classroom, strictly within the workshop hours. The aim is to continue with our work, as we should, while not interfering with the seasonal exams.
The exercises will be related to the project you just handed in, so do bring your files. You may bring your own laptop if it is more convenient.

NO WORKSHOP TOMORROW

Considering that other groups do not have afternoon lessons or workshops tomorow Fri 21st, and after consultation with The Boss of It All, we have decided to CANCEL the workshop tomorrow.
Nevertheless, I will be on-line most of the day, and if BEFORE 16:30 you send me an e-mail with a pdf of your work (keep it small, please, no bigger than 3 Mb per mail) I will get back to you during the afternoon.

Otherwise, as agreed, the deadline for this exercise is Thursday the 10th of January at 16:00.

Format:
- A1 panels in any number you think fitting, minimum three. Print in the highest possible quality. Use a light-semirigid base, minimum a 300gr paper, maximum a 5mm foam board.
- a disk with the panels in pdf and any relevant digital document (video, etc)

It is a good idea to include a first panel with research, first concepts, etc.

It is important to cover a wide range of scales, from the site plan to the microscale, but remember that if you have a large site, you don't have to define the whole thing down to the detail; make zooms of higher definition parts, keep larger scales schematic but eloquent.

If you do a model, remember that it is usually better to chose few good photos, manipulate and adjust them, and print them as large as they will stand. Chose meaningful photos that tell us something about your project. Even if you make seven hundred beautiful photos, choose a few and print them BIG.

Microscale

We are now doing a two week exercise, dealing with the smallest possible scale within your project.
You have to zoom in, and develop a small element of your project.
The choice will depend on the nature of your project. Today we have seen and decided some examples:

- Small public toilets in the park.
- A LED screen.
- A bench / cum roof-beam
- A lantern on the square.
- The DJ box.

It is desirable to choose or include something to sit on.
It is best to choose an autonomous element, preferably in the open air, or within a much larger space.

Make sure you tackle the materiality of your design; is it soft/hard/rough/heavy/light/shiny; include the users in your drawings; use a variety of tools/software: cad for precision, illustrator for clarity, models and photoshop for texture and feeling.

Next Thursday, you will join workshop T-41 in room 222, same schedule. It will be an in-house working session, so bring your materials (laptop, modelmaking gear, whatever you want to work with). You will be able to see how the fourth year students are dealing with microscale, and profs JLE Penelas and M Fonseca will provide feed-back (thanx!)

On Friday we will do on-line tuition. E-mail me your pdf (max 2Mb) before 16:00 to carlos.arroyo@uem.es .

This exercise will be handed in on Friday the 7th (which, as stated before, is no puente)
Format: A1

New document

Tomorrow, Friday the 16^th, everyone will bring their work to the workshop.

We will decide, one by one, what document (what part of the project, what kind of document, what format, scale, etc) to hand in next Thursday.

Thursday the 22^nd, you will hand in the document as decided.

Please Note

Friday the 7^th of December, there is NO PUENTE.
Following instructions from the head of studies, absences will be reported.

Viaje manhattan

Buenas noches.
Indagando por google, encontre ua especie de agencia de viajes que organiza viajes en grupo a manhattan.
Se q no es algo muy de fiar y lo mas seguro ( y costoso) seria ir a una agencia de viajes, pero por probar que no quede.
He rellenado una encuesta diciendo lo que nos interesaria (viaje en grupo, sin guia, 4-5 noches...)


Os adjunto la direcciòn por si quereis curiosear : http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Corner/3913/


http://www.geocities.com/newyorkknowhow/spanish.htm


Soy muy consciente de q no es algo q sea muy seguro, pero por probar suerte y ver q nos contestan... ya os comentare la respuesta¡