The construction industry initially embraced volumetric modular construction as a solution to flatline productivity and inefficiency.
After having experienced a number of crits, you will become increasingly independent in seeing your work through other people's points of views.This has definitely helped me develop into a better designer; allowing yourself to be critical and realising this critical mindset is what will make you a better designer.. BW: What's the worse thing about them?.
M: Crits can definitely cause a lot of stress and nervosity, but as you go through your studies you start getting used to the format of presenting your work and understand what is expected of you, which makes the experience much more enjoyable and rewarding.Students sometimes wrongly think of crits as an occasion for your tutors to tell you everything you've done wrong, but should instead be seen as an opportunity to discuss the project and its aims objectively.. BW: What one piece of advice would you give to an architecture student prepping for their crit?.M: I would probably say it's incredibly important to have a plan on how you will be presenting your work.
Don't forget you will be presenting in front of people who may have never seen your work before, so be clear and to the point.It's also really important to keep an open mind to any feedback you might get.
It's easy to get defensive when you're being critted because at that time you define yourself through your project (having worked on it consistently for weeks and weeks, often losing sleep to get those drawings finished), but a crit is not there to judge you and your worth but to ultimately make you a better architect.As champions of both company innovation and diversity, Bryden Wood are delighted to have three exceptional team members selected as finalists for the prestigious European Women In Construction and Engineering Awards.
The WICE Awards, currently celebrating their fifth year, highlight the leading contributions being made by women within the industry.We reduce avoidable travel by designing to adjacencies and linkages wherever they add value – while at the same time understanding the need to keep certain functions, or categories of user, very separate.
We include and consider as many variables as we can to make sure that the hospital will function as well as it can.. We produce detailed functional and support diagrams to guide the process.When these diagrams are agreed with our client, we create spatial diagrams, detailing all required rooms, their shapes and the relations between them.
This allows us to engage more specialist stakeholders, and make sure their requirements for each of the rooms are met.. We describe this approach as designing the hospital from the inside out.But we never lose sight of the architectural response to the brief.