Today was a really busy day, so much so that I barely found time to write. After being introduced to the brief of the West Whins project in the morning, we got stuck right in. I was glad that we were able to maintain the same groups for the project as before – we all kind of slipped into our roles quite easily. Some of our group had experience with formulating bids which was a big help – this was quite insightful for me as I am normally only involved in a project once the work has been awarded and the details of construction are being planned out. I felt at times that I wanted to get stuck into the actual design and concept of the buildings, but it was great to set ourselves a plan of action and to dapple a little in every other aspect of the master plan, such as energy, water, materials, landscaping and site analysis. From this I could really see how to treat a site holistically, and the amount of work that was involved. At midnight we called a halt to our work, but Abdul and myself began to discuss the rational that we should actually have a small part of a building plan laid out and some visualisations to go along with it. We worked away until past 3am coming up with a basic house layout, which we then applied this to the site – the end result looked a lot like something below. I'm curious how the other team are getting on – I hope they managed to overcome their problems from the previous session.
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