And now it’s time to rant about my schedule for this coming semester!
I still can’t accept the fact that my dismissal everyday when school starts is 9pm!! 9pm!! I live in Quezon City and it’s far from UST. No dorm for me so that means I’ll be going home late everyday. No more social life after school! HAY. Oh the Cons of being in 4th year!
Good luck with me and my block. Especially with that 5-hour break every saturday! SATURDAY!!!!!
Photo courtesy of Kat Adriano :)
Here’s my block’s niceteenicetee float for Arkiesta Float Parade!
70% recycled materials. We used Plastic bottles, Banderitas from 40k voices, newspapers, tree branches, cartons.
Anyway, The theme was about festivals. We picked Japan: Cherry Blossoms Festival.
The class decided to have a Pagoda, Torii, Japanese garden Bridge and of course, cherry blossoms :) Time spent making this, if im not mistaken, was a week and a half. I think we did a really good job, Im proud of my mates :)
But things didn’t go the way we expect it to be.
We weren’t able to join the parade because our base was too big it wouldn’t fit the roads with vehicles parked on its sides. Council peeps told us that they wouldn’t allow cars to park to give way to the parade. But turned out, inconsiderate cars still parked along the path :( SAD. I don’t want to point people to blame, but i just wanna let this out,
you know guys, group work is group work. Any decisions to be made, must be approved by majority. You are not to decide on your own but you should know that any idea from a member is just an opinion, not a final decision.
Anyway, though we are considered a laughing stock by the faculty, I still see our float as the best one. :)
PS:
group photos: friends from 1st Year college. We belong to different sections now:)
Francis and Nico 3-8 Spain, Hot air balloon festival; Audrey, Emi and Nichole 3-6 France, Light Festival/ Circus; Paul, 3-5 Brazil; Yvonne, 3-3 India
I wore a kimono, a traditional Japanese attire. Andoy dressed up as Master Pogi of Dragon Ball Z :)
If there’s one activity I love doing in Planning and Designing structures in Architecture School, it’s drawing Perspectives.
I love looking at perspectives. My imagination works well by just looking at a drawing. The only problem I have is when I think of stuffs but couldn’t do it on paper. that sucks. But thanks to technology, AutoCAD, Revit, 3Ds Max, Photoshop and such, everything now in designing is possible.
I first learned to draw perspectives when I was in my Senior year in Highschool. Drafting subject. Aside from my parents, that short course I had influenced me to take up Architecture.
Graphics. Took this course when I was in my Freshman year in college. It’s a Drafting subject that exercises your skills with Isometrics drawings, Perspectives and Shadowings in Architectural Drawings. Graphics 101 (Isometric Drawings) was good since I had a very good professor, Architect Ong. But I didn’t learn enough from Graphics 102 (Perspectives and Shadowing) , under Architect Sityar, cos I had a hard time understanding him.
Perspectives are not necessarily scaled all the time. All you have to consider is right proportions. That’s what you call CHAMPECTIVES. A very popular Pinoy term used by people of Architecture and Interior Designers.
Champective- n. [cham-pek-tiv]
-Chamba/tiyamba + Perspective; Perspective with no scale; chambahan; perspective by estimation
Here are examples of Champectives by yours truly
Photos below are my esquisses for our plate this semester.
Mode: Freehand
Pangasinan Sports Complex: Business Center and Administration Building
Pangasinan Sports Complex: Athelete’s Dormitory
I know my drawings lack life. I suck at sketching landscapes and entourage. Those are my extra frustrations in life. I can’t graduate without mastering it. There’s a need for it. And because I admire manual presentations than those digital-ized.
Anyway, I like the improvements I have over the past 2 years of being an Architecture student. Kaya pa yan. I know sooner or later, I can do way better than this. Im gonna defeat myself.
Arch. Mercado is the world’s best professor. He knows how to run a studio class (he handled my Design 1 class last sem and is handling my Design 2 class this sem). He always lets us do crazy things like eat during studio and sleep when we’re done with the work for the day. The best part is that he loves it when we have fun! Which is why we always have parties.
Last semester, we had our High School Recess to end Design 1 and now we have this costume party for Design 2. I love my class so much!
BEST MENTOR EVER. I miss Architect Mercado. I also experienced this when I was in First Year, we only had High School Recess though. Not only Sir was into fun yet educational stuff but he was very generous when giving grades. He gave me my first Uno. And I won’t forget that. I would not survive studying Architecture if it wasn’t for Sir’s help. God bless this man for inspiring a lot of architects-in-the-making.
15 years from now, I then shall be a successful architect, I will find him and thank him for all he has thought me- Life and Architecture
Design 1, Design 5, HOA 3. and please be my Thesis Adviser. :)
UST Arki. Just a tip! Never lose him. Increase his paycheck! He deserves it!
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