November

I forgot how busy school can be. This semester I'm taking four classes, first a design studio where we're designing a hotel for Tokyo that uses advanced technologies and construction methods. It's about laminar flows and anisotropic materials, which basically means layered facades and materials that behave non-uniformly. It's interesting but not as relevant to my thesis as I had hoped it would be. I don't ever really plan on designing a hotel in Tokyo.

Here's the current state of the project, I still have three weeks to make it really sexy.




I'm also in a Thesis Prep class. I want to do my thesis about homes, its called code. You can read more about it here. Basically I want to make a genetic code for building homes, a conceptual framework that takes into account all the aspects that make a house a home.


I was also part of a six week life-drawing workshop. It's great to take off a few hours out of the week to just draw and its surprisingly applicable to architecture, even in this seemingly computer only environment. This is a drawing from the last session. This model was amazingly beautiful.



Also I bought a piano with the money I made at my new job. Now I'm one step closer to becoming a concert pianist. Check this baby out.