The last few weeks have been more than a little hectic for me. Being slightly behind schedule I've had plenty of catching up to do and it took it out of me to a quite spectacular degree. The weekend before the final presentation for Habitat I was reduced to a mere husk of an architecture student - barely a human being. In retrospect though, the hard work was probably worth it - I ended up with a design proposal I was happy with - proud of, even - and a vaguely comprehensible presentation.
In the crit space I was presented with the inevitable 'everyone's work is better than mine' feeling of creeping dread but I tried to maintain a positive attitude and the presentation itself went pretty well - I got some useful feedback and actually wrapped up feeling fairly positive about the whole thing.
I am now really looking forward to semester 2 as I feel I know what to expect a bit more - if I can continue to improve at the current rate, I should hopefully be churning out some pretty impressive work by the end. It feels really good to be making such fast and clear progress - I think I need evidence of my own progress to feel as though I am getting somewhere. I've said it before and I'll say it again - I'm really glad I'm doing this course.
I am currently working on putting together my portfolio so it resembles something vaguely coherent - this is yet another opportunity to look at how far I have come in such a short space of time and how good the work can look when presented properly, rather than like it has been fired from a cannon or something.
Once the portfolio is presented it's time for a (dare I say well deserved?) break which will hopefully have me fully reinvigorated for semester 2.
Bring it on!
