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project: Mid-rise perimeter block housing. Community of approx. 25-36 apartments
site: downtown brooklyn

These are pictures of my facade studies for this semester's project. The premise is a flexible architecture that promotes community. the apartment units are organized around communal spaces that alter a normative grid creating a sense of induviduality and uniquness in the residents.

My midterm review is this thursday so i'm cadding like a mofo. I should update my journal more.

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my hard disk crashed this morning. I lost all of my work and music. It was the only documentation of the work that i completed at pratt. Back up your work people.

Here are some renderings of my final model (review was yesterday)

Project: Design a library/archive located in the Bowery
Site: Located on Lafayette ave. betweeen Bond and Great James

I need to make more interior renderings and gratuitous my-model-is-too-sexy shots. Too bad I'm in love with raytracing and mental ray so my renders take 5+ hours to complete. I'll also upload pictures of my final model


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My birthday was yesterday so thanks to everyone who sent me calls/messages. It really made my day to hear little text message blings at 3 in the morning.

Anyway, I'm in Taiwan again for the winter. 3 weeks to be exact. I'll be coming home on the 11th. Taiwan food is delicious and makes me fat. Right now we're taking a tour of the rest of the island, making our way south from Taipei to Kaushoung. Wang Leehom wait for me!!

My Design final was yesterday and i did pretty well I think. My final model wasn't complete but I was one out of five people who actually had one. I also got archived (yay), which means i'll have to spend winter break touching up and fixing my models (poo). I have wood stain all over my hands, but it's ok it just looks like i have nasty birthmarks.

Anyhoo, I just woke up after 16 hours of sleep so I'm feeling pretty great. When i don't sleep I get all pissy and sad so the whiny bitch LJ entries come a-flowing. Now that i'm well rested and not insane, i'm looking back and having those "God, i'm a moron" feelings. So to everyone, please ignore the bitch entries.

This weekend i've come to the realization that my caffene pills don't work on me anymore. They could be old, who knows, but this sent me into freak out mode but I calmed down after I discovered that Arizona extreme energy drink. I'm so glad this semester is over. I can't wait to go to Taiwan over the winter.



Name 5 of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick 5
people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use
things that someone else has already used. Tag 5 people on your list.

1. plucking my eyebrows....or doing my hair.

2. Hanging out with someone you're completly comfortable with.

3. Coming up with the wittiest most appropriate comeback or comment.

4. Creating something. Whether it's through art, architecture, or music, i just love working with my hands and creating beautiful things.

5. Sleep. Ok, i've loved this before I was sleeped deprived too. But honestly, NOTHING, can beat the feeling that you go through a few seconds before you fall alseep.

I'm tagging anyone who wants to do this. Mostly cause I'm too lazy to use LJ tags

Things are going pretty well. I'm just in a calm, "I don't give a fuck" mood. I complain too much and I get annoyed at people's faults too easily. I was talking to DJ and we concluded that we are so critical because we are both so self absorbed. We look at the world and judge it using ourselves as the standard (therefore consequently naming ourselves as the prototype of the ideal human). And of course by doing so, we are so engaged and interested in ourselves that we fail to see our own huge, gaping faults. So true.

So now on I vowed not to be so judgemental and critical of people. I need to stop focusing on the world and instead turn my analyzing inward.

I'm registering for classes tommorow. I was going to use the credits that I obtained from being a TA to have some free time next semester but I think i'm going to take an elective anyways. I was thinking about taking a painting class. Just to meet non-architecture people and because painting is one of my weaker art skills. I was so motivated to start painting again that for my whole world civ class I was sketching out compositions. I was thinking about making a series of paintings reflecting on loneliness and isolation in an urban environment. I had a bunch a sketches drawn up but this is just probably another one of my ideas that will never come to existence.

Right now, what I would really enjoy is to take a walk on the Brooklyn Bridge at 4am. I want to have a bottle of gin and watch the sun rise. Standing...sipping. Drinking just enough so that the edges of the world are softened and blurred. Standing there, the wind on my face, and just feeling like I am the only person in the world.

LeAnn Rimes has eczema!? Sweet Jesus! I share dermotological problems with celebrities!!!!

My sleeping schedule now is just sad. Last year, I would fluxuate from not sleeping all week and then sleeping for 25 hours for the weekend. Now I'm just having a steady dearth. I'm averageing about 2-4 hours a night and it's just going to be that way until winter break. I don't get any "catching up" days. It makes me sad, and sleepy. My undereye bags are out of control. I have double rings. Thank god for concealer.

Last Saturday, DJ and I forgoed studio work to see Santiago Calatrava speak at the Met. For those not familliar with Calatrava, look up the Milwuakee art museum and prepare to be amazed. Yeah, so awesome architect + free admission = we're so there. Well we ot there 3 hours early cause we thought the line would be out the door (as we heard from people who attended the Rem Koolhaas lecture). The lecture was majorly dissapointing. First of all he had this crazy accent that made it hard to understand him (or near impossible). Secondly, his presentation was catered to the masses that attended the lecture...normal people who i refer to as architecture fans. I thought he would go into the theory and concepts behind his work but he just talked about the bare forms of his work and made these cheesy refrences to the human form and that totally trivialized his work. I don't question that Calavtrava is a great architect, but i think that because of the location and the language problem, i didn't really learn anything from the lecture. I do know what he looks like though....he's really tall.

Then it was back to slaving away for the midterm reviews (missing out on Halloween fun). My review went ok. But one of my jurors was this super talkative guy with nasty teeth and he wouldn't let me finish presenting my tectonic site model. He just kept on talking on and on about the diagonals in my module and how i should have more reasoning behind the diagonals. I was just thinking "I know! I GET IT!! DIAGONALS ARE AWESOME! Just let me talk about this awesome plexiglass site model that I spent a bajillion years working on!! PLEASE!" Oh how i hate jurors who love to hear themselves talk.

And then last night I hung out with Ella, Jose, and Chad. We traveled to the ends of the earth (aka Queens) to save $4 on a movie (as a movie in Manhattan would have cost my firstborn child). We saw Jarhead. The only redeeming part of that movie was Jake Gyllenhaal's ass. Throughout the movie I was constantly fluxuating between pretentious movie critic and besotten giggly schoolgirl.

Now i'm sitting in the studio...completely lost. My review gave me no direction whatsoever. grr grr grr. Would I like some cheese with this whine?