End of The Term

Wow! the term is almost over but it doesn't seem like its been 9+ weeks. I'm feeling concerned about these next two weeks though. I have sooooo much to do and my final review is this week! Design Studio is suppose to be the meat of my education but for this term, I feel like all my other classes have taken priority especially my thesis prep class.

My final review is this Wednesday evening. I know I don't have time to make steller renderings and build a professional looking model even if I stay up for the next three days straight...which I've done before but mainly because I took off one afternoon and drove up to Portland to see the final world cup championship at the Pioneer Courthouse Square after two days without sleep and then drove back down to Eugene to finish up for my final review the next morning. I was a mess....so my lesson learned...NOT WORTH IT!!!

This time around, I feel like I have a choice to focus my time on the displaying the important elements of my design and underlying concept to my project. I designed a pedestrian bridge-inhabited bridge that crosses the Willamette River connecting the two Salmon Streets. The bridge is different then the ones we're use to seeing here in Portland. To follow with how I've been describing the design all term, I would say it most resembles a necklace loosely strung across the water with an oval pendent, the gem which gently pulls at the necklace, curving the direction of the bridge path in response to the direction the river flows. The experience is to bring you close to the water and not only provide breathtaking views of the city as your traverse the river, but to create a place, a destination on the water.

Back to the stress part. I have a lot of drawings using AutoCAD and it takes time to get everything all the line weights just right and placed into a layout. Not to mention that we spent two weeks as a studio building a physical site model; I don't know if there is time to build my bridge to fit into the site model???

First things first, drawings and layout....all nighter models can be a decision made later.

"until the fat lady sings" as they say...