Mid -Reviews

I had my mid reviews Tuesday, the purpose of the exercise was to introduce your subject and explain what you intended to do and how you intended to do it. It went well got a lot of feedback from faculty, there were so many questions about the issues of the city and the ultimate goal of the project they seemed to have so many ideas of where i should go next or what i should focus on...most of them helpful..some not so much.

We only had 10 min to talk about our projects introduce them and explain what we intended to research and design- i ended up taking 20...with all the historical research i had done there was a lot to explain about the city, how it works, why, what happened over the years for it to function the way it does. The hardest thing about this project, which is also the most exciting thing to me, is how different it is from anything else i have learned in architecture so far. Cities of the developing world are different, there are some common features with European and American ones but for the most part they function with a different mode of operation- this is what i intend to focus on for the next weeks. I want to pull these differences out to clarify my design considerations so hopefully by next review (on Dec. 2nd!!?!?!?!) I will be able to point out what exactly about the city and these slums stands out to me and what i am doing as a response to these issues.
These are some of the presentation boards i presented.

So much, so fast...always so little time!!!

It has been a while since i updated this page I was stuck in a zone trying to figure out my research what i was trying to get from all of it cause the set back of finding out all this wonderful information is how much of the wonderful there is; so much so that the ultimate goal of the research begins to get lost and the magnitude of the issues we face in our cities and the slums that frame these cities begins to overwhelm, discourage and squash any creativity that exists.
The truth is though that the problem is hugely overwhelming but unless we start to think of things in an out of the box, crazy lined with creative way nothing would ever get done we would all look at the situation feeling tired even before we begin and in the end do nothing because it is just too much. If I could achieve anything i would like my project to at least initiate a dialogue with the way things "could be" "if we..."
That said, that still leaves a monstrous amount of work to be done, resourcefulness to be acquired and design to be creatively executed. Good luck to me!