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Archi-'torture': The first submission...
Bitched on: Friday, September 01, 2006
Time: 9/01/2006 05:21:00 PM
What did I get myself into?Time: 9/01/2006 05:21:00 PM
I haven't been updating lately, hor?
Cause I have been busy...
Incredibly busy...
(Its true what they say about the course.)
My first submission was yesterday and the last few nights before that has been hell...
Sleeping for only 3 hours tops each night before climaxing to a no-sleep-at-all-eve-of-submission.
And that's not the torturing thing, the most 'torturing' thing was listening to all the losers in the other studios bragging and complaining about how little sleep they got.
"I slept for two hours last night."
"Really? I got only half an hour."
"You two can't beat me, I didn't even get to sleep!"
Grow up, guys...
So mature...
That's the pressure. From all these peers who are 'workaholics' in nature.
24-7 in the studio.
Lifeless...
Geeks...
And thats pressurizing.
Why must people work so hard and insist on bragging to others?
If not so, why must people make their life hard and complain about it?
Why?
I too have been working my butt off, re-doing some of my drawings and my model.
And I'm not complaining.
If I have to work late into the night, its not because I want to brag about it the next day to my peers, its because I want my work to be my best.
So there. Que sera sera.
Speaking of models, my studio tutor wanted us to do something unconventional and different from the other studios (which had to make a model of the zoo) and do it 'abstract'.
Like how we feel when we went to the zoo, about the architecture, the structures and the atmosphere and translate that into our model.
And we did receive flaks and 'teasings' from other studios who felt our workload was lighter than theirs.
Go suck-thumb lah...
And to top it off, my studio tutor has to be the most lenient of the tutors. She doesn't make us re-do our work unlike other studio tutors (for sure). She is soft-spoken and she has so far been impressed by our work.
Which made my studiomate and I a tad worried about our standards and progress. Whether it was the same as the others or lower. And whether we would 'die' under another tutor next semester.
We raised our concerns to her. We wanted her to be in a way 'strict' like the other tutors. We 'begged' her to make our workload heavier.
But she asked the studio in her 'zen-calm'-way, "Who chose this course because you like architecture, despite your parents' or friends' negative takes on the course?"
The entire studio (12 of us) raised our hands.
"So why should I scare you off from doing something you love?"
Well said.
Plus, she reasons, we will have more time to do our research.
She doesn't care if our lines are straight or not, she wants us to understand architecture (I was tempted to say 'fully understand' but she did say that no one can do that).
She just wants us to embrace it.
To appreciate it.
And especially to enjoy it.
So what did I get myself into?
Something I love.
Labels: architecture, school
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