Apologies for the 2 week gap - things got a bit hectic, and I didn’t have the time or will to update this blog last weekend. We’re now at the Easter ‘break’, which gives us 2 weeks until our final crit, and 5 weeks until submission deadline.

I started working on the 1:50 section, which will be a two-point perspective, and during detailing, I realised I screwed up the outer wall makeup: the insulation is on the wrong way round (it is on the inside, as opposed to the outside!). Fortunately, this should hopefully be a quick(ish) fix, and then I need to trim the floorplates back and fix the basement wall makeup, then I can continue. The other major alteration was the atrium canopy - which I knew was incomplete - however after conversations with both a visiting architect along with an engineer, we sorted the technical details that provide the structural makeup of the canopy. Luckily, the engineer actually happened to work on a project recently - the Zaryadye Park in Moscow, which used a combination of both steel and structural glass beams to provide the web that holds up the triangulated undulating canopy. Instead of doming the atrium - which is what was originally suggested - I’ve decided to simply slope it at 2 degrees to allow for run-off.

Following this, the plan is to finish inhabiting the model by end of Monday, then I can take final cuts, set up the model for rendering (complete with Material IDs) whilst working on the 1:50 at the same time as the rendering process (‘touch wood’).

Next up will be planning precisely what the Axo will show, and sorting that out - I’m hoping I’ll be able to do that in the second week of the ‘break’. Subsequently, it’ll be the “supporting docs” as I call them (still integral, mind) - that is, the narrative diagrams and associated mapping, whether they be massing, environmental et cetera.

Just one image this week, a test render of what will be the 1-50, without any additional light sources, or materiality. Need to add and adjust the above first before I’m ready.