To all 2nd year design students:

The hand in of the urban puzzle was not as bad as the marks might suggest, however, most of the work is unfinished. This is a re-appearing symptom and cannot continue. You have to use your time for the production of design more efficiently, this means that you cannot stay in the conceptual scribble phase for 2 weeks and spend 4 days on the design development. However, as you will work on this project in construction next semester and need a solid base, we decided the following:

It seems a lot of you need another crit. Please fix/ finish you drawings if you know what to do. See the general comments below.
All groups have to pin up on Thursday 30 April as groups of 10. You will get another crit and the possibility to re-hand in at the end of the semester when you have a mark of 45% and above. Students below 45% need to consult me. Deductions to be discussed.


General comments:

Context:
Most of you have not shown that you are building on a slope and a row house. This is something you indicate in your elevation and section

Planning:
Many staircases do not work.

Some of you do not have enough courtyard space (30-50% outside space).

Concept:
Very few of you have understood what a conceptual diagram is supposed to communicate.

Models:
Groups were asked to build a 1:500 model with context and all 10 houses in a row. Only one group has done that.

General model building quality has improved.