Morning Charrettes.

To help kick us back into gear after coming back from spring break, we were presented with the task of combining with yet another team to create an eight story building. In order to find a group that complimented our's well, we were asked to have two charrettes with two different teams. The two, brief, one hour charrettes where a new exersice that I found extremly helpful. It forced everyone to not only begin throwing out ideas immediately, but it also casued us to focus on what was most important and to start creating and developing deliverables from the start. In both groups that I met with, everyone started by immediately throwing out ideas and sketching. Once we got the broad, general design decided on, we split further into smaller groups to produce all the different deliverables.

The first group we met with for the charette was team Allure. We found many commonalitues between both of our spaces and were able to blend the two by meshing both of our strong structural elements on the facade into one element. My task was to write the statement of approach with Kathryn. Noramally I find writing at the beginning of an assignment hard to do, but for some reason I felt this time around I was able to better pinpoint the qualities of our spaces. Writing helped me to further understand both teams structures and be able to compare and contrast the two structures and how they compliment one another.

Working with Team Allure

The second group we met with was team Angling. This group was not as easy to get the ball rolling, because our buildings were polar opposites from one another. Our group's original design was very straight and confined, while team Angling's design was very open with drastic turns and curves. My task in this charette was to create a series of diagrams with Faith. Again, diagraming helped me focus on the uniting factors of the two spaces, and simplified the otherwise overwhelming taks of uniting our spaces.

The charrettes over all helped me to identify the most important characteristics of my own group's space, and allowed me to broaden my design technique as we tried to unite with other group member's and their designs.