Last Semester

The way the WAAC works it's studio was hard for me to grasp last semester. I guess I should mention that I am in the second semester of the two-year M.ARCH program ( I did the 4 + 2 program). The WAAC studios are very different from other programs. First thing is that you are not assigned a project, you choose the project at the beginning of the semester. Another thing the WAAC believes in is cross-polination. After I selected my project, I was in a studio with landscape students, 4th-year undergrads from Tech, and exchange students from Chile, Argentina, and England. I believe this to be for the better, as most of my learning came from how other cultures/routes of study attacked studio projects. The last thing that was different is that even though you have an assigned professor, you can sign up for desk crits with any professor in the school. So even though you have a pin-up once every two weeks, if you don't sign up to see someone in between, you are isolated. This was the hardest thing for me to grasp, and it took me a while for me to get used to the pacing that is WAAC studio.

Last semester, I chose an Aquatic Center to be my studio project. I was less then thrilled with my results, but I thought I would post some images below:












And more final stuff:







Anyway, it was hard for me to pace myself through the semester. I got what the WAAC was about in about a month and a half, so my pacing got better. Now that that is behind me, I am hoping my experience with the WAAC and this blog will help me create a much better project this semester. More details about that coming soon.