La historia de un semestre en Barcelona: 04/25/07

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Fiesta al studio de Profesor Vidal: Party at Professor Vidal's studio

After months without having seen Teresa, she was present to welcome us to professor Vidal's own architecture studio for dinner after the final presentations. Not only were the different types of pizza and tortillas great, but we were in for a huge surprise with all of the art/architecture work that Vidal has done. Who would have guessed that he did a large number of the paintings on the wall?!

Billy, Monica, Brandon, Tom

Professor Vidal, Eugenia, Gisela, Bob

Victoria, Sean, Teresa, Billy, Mon--Teresa is trying to make us eat like a good mother! haha

Gisela, Bob, Vic, and Sean... FOOOD!

Rob, Bri, Ben--all a little tired but having fun.

At the end of the night, Professor Vidal not only busted out a great speech about our semester together, but this cake with our group photo from La Sagrada Familia, and a copy of his book of artwork for each of us! It was the end of a good studio-despite it being extremely difficult (at least for me), and the best semester so far because, let's face it--I was in Barcelona with amazing people, and professors that helped us to see all that they could.

Macheta final: Final model

A simple, but to the point model to explain my final project at the block and architectural scale.
I figure that after all the work this semester, some pictures of the physical objects should probably show.

My two blocks (turned one block) in massing from above...soon to be limited to the block to the above-left for the architectural scale.

The block in question, from the "God-view" aka, Plan/Perspective

Same block, to give you an idea of the materiality of the mountain-side of each building (creating transition from dense neighborhood to wide-open plaza through the use of materials and transparency).

Those would be the facades of the buildings taken from the plaza across the main access path.

And there are the elevations from the bird's eye plaza side...From left to right: Housing, Offices/Restaurant/event space, Gymnasium, Market/Roof-courts, fields

Sweet deal.

NOW...fiesta.

Donde esta el juez?: Where is the judge?

After postponement of the jury by a day earlier in the semester, we were definitely on BCN time for the final jury, which didn't start until at least an hour or 2 after it was scheduled! Finally our main juror, a dean at ETSAB who we'd met the first day of class there. And so began the final jury...

Tired, much?