Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Architecture Gone Wrong


SO, this is how it goes down. The other high school students went camping and I’m stuck at home doing nothing, well, almost nothing. I’m working on the project that nobody likes to do except me (and playing pokemon at the same time). Its an architectural project in which a group of 5-6 students get together to create this one of a kind model of a structure that doesn’t exist, meaning we have to make it up on our own… The funny part is the one about the 5-6 students thing. We have 6 members in our group, and only 3 of them (including myself) are actually doing something. I’m doing the scaling and calculations of the whole thing. Design artist, Nicole Bayeta, is designing (quite reasonable since she is the design artist). RJ Gentapanan is our stylist, and my conscience in this whole thing (in case I get second thoughts).

Our other “members” are Mariel Cacho (who has to have everything done for her by other people), Honey Ray Calog (rarely see him), and Malcolm Ofiasa (who is absolutely no help at all).

Well, I was doing some calculating a few weeks back, and I had everything planned out. Turns out some of my calculations were wrong, and the pyramid was actually a tri-mid. Or, if you prefer pyramid with 3 sides (I’m not even sure if tri-mid is even a word). Yeah, and it gets even better, the “tri-mid” would usually have solid sides right? Well, lets just say it has holes in it. Luckily, saved by the teacher, recapped that “the buildings must be made up, and no stealing of designs from buildings already built”. Boy was I happy, I thought this was all my fault.

Design artist, Nicole, was actually expecting it to be a pyramid, and the whole thing was actually supposed to look like pyramids in Egypt, and that the pyramids were supposed to be in Egypt, and we were going to have sand everywhere and camels. BUTT (yes “butt”, its not a typo), the teacher had announced what she had announced and its all good…

BUTT (not a typo), theres this concept that I actually want to do. The “tri-mids” are actually, pretty cool looking. Cheah, thats awesome, isnt it? Hahaha well, I dont know, what do you think?


We are actually going to give it a nice varnish to make it look classy yet modern. Well, its up to our designer, yep. Our lolo is actually putting the hinges on it as we speak. If you are wondering about the hinges, the "tri-mids" are actually going to open up, and there will be something inside. Yeap, pretty cool huh? thanks to my dream job of being an architect (as soon as I'm done with nursing).


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hahaha. "Tri - mids"
Cool name though. I wonder what Ma'am Ramos is gonna have to say about it.
I actually like how they turned out. =D

Paul Mitchell said...

Oddly enough, what you are doing is just like real life architecture work. There is a team and only a few folks contribute to the work.

Good luck in your chosen field, it is very rewarding.