Experiment 1 Feedback

Alana Peddie
Key strength of the scheme: Great work – interesting overall form and great connectivity and flow between your 3 spaces. Beautiful drawings too. Well done.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: More could have been made about the schemes relationship to the ground. Further resolution needed e.g. the spikes penetrating the ground, and the subterranean vault.

Annie Tran
Key strength of the scheme: Sophisticated overall form – with some evocative spaces. Its great to see the attention to detail (textures, materials, etc.) also. Well done.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: You relied on the same animation techniques in all 3 videos. You could have used the animations to reveal more about your scheme/clients to the viewer. Also more finesse needed in your drawings.

Brian Lau
Key strength of the scheme: Interesting overall form with bold/strong geometry and good selection of materials
Most significant weakness of the scheme: Incomplete submission – majority of sections and textures are missing. Please carefully read your submission requirements in future.

Caroline Hadchiti
Key strength of the scheme: Good understanding of structural and construction principles – you have produced some nice stair sections.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: More experimentation is needed. Your final design scheme lacked the dynamics of some of your earlier sections/concepts. Also you need to further develop your understanding of the ground – its mass, density etc.

Cheng Lu
Key strength of the scheme: Great overall form – and use of incorporating structural elements as sculpture into your exhibition space.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: More thought and exploration of the stair form is needed as well as developing your detailed design. You need to carefully read the submission requirements – e.g. relationship between artworks and your exhibition spaces.

Cynthia Quang
Key strength of the scheme: Interesting building form well done. You have produced some great section sketches.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: More detail and resolution is needed in order to move beyond the conceptual sketch design into a more developed design.

Emma Jin
Key strength of the scheme: Good overall form – and great use of textures in your scheme.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: More detail and resolution (especially on the stairs – balustrades?) is needed. The brief asked that you develop and detail the stair. You also need to refine issues of scale and intimacy for exhibition spaces - your scheme is massive.

Esmonde Yap
Key strength of the scheme: Fantastic building form very interesting! This scheme showed great potential and understanding.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: Your stairs and interior spaces however lacked formal resolution. They lack the dynamism, distortion and elegance of your overall form. (e.g. chunky masonry handrails?) seem at odds with your faceted form. Be mindful of the ground plane – its not paper thin.

Ian Manhuyod
Key strength of the scheme: You have designed some beautiful interior spaces – great materials palette. Strong understanding of materials and textures. Great work
Most significant weakness of the scheme: Lacking detail – missing balustrades, landings etc. Also the scale is massive – how can you begin to reconcile the intimate studio space with the large open plan floor plans?

Ming Zhe Woo
Key strength of the scheme: Great progress throughout Experiment One. Great section drawings too – many of them had potential to be developed into a fantastic scheme too. Well done.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: Lacking formal resolution. Your final scheme lost some of the playfulness and sculptural forms of earlier sketches. Incomplete animations – 2 are duplicates.

Patti Bai
Key strength of the scheme: Beautiful work – great tectonic and compositional design skills. Fantastic development throughout session one.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: More resolution needed. Although you have created some amazing stairs – the remaining interior spaces lacked some of the design development shown in other parts of the scheme.

Peter Le
Key strength of the scheme: Nice material palette and subtle forms – that work well together. Very nice use/placement of artwork as part of stair form.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: More care needed with your drawings. Stair concept and resolution also needed more attention (balustrades?) Remember too the ground plane is not paper thin.

Rui Chen
Key strength of the scheme: You have produced some interesting tectonic forms.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: Incomplete submission – some sections are missing. More design work needed on stairs in order to respond to requirements of the design brief. Also you need to carefully think about ground plane (its not a paper thin!) consider its materiality, density mass etc.

Sam Whitby
Key strength of the scheme: Good design development – it was nice to see your scheme improve with each week. Well done on producing some interesting stair types too.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: You need to ensure that you take more care with your hand drawings. They lost some of the clarity/vision of your final scheme.

Sarah Sim
Key strength of the scheme: You have created some dynamic, varied forms especially in your organic studio. And produced a strong sculptural relationship between the overall forms and the stairs within them.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: More clarity needed in order to pull together the 2 very disparate studios in the one building typology.

Sunny Sunhwa
Key strength of the scheme: Great overall form an interesting tectonic solution. Well done.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: Much more detail and resolution is needed overall. It is hard to see how your scheme optimally functions as exhibition and gallery spaces. Incomplete animations – one animation was only 2 seconds in duration!

T J Mundy
Key strength of the scheme: Well done – great work and nicely resolved too. You have designed and brought to life some beautiful spaces. Your forms are not only sophisticated but you have really pushed the relationship between the 2 occupants and the resultant spatial form.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: You needed to then push the idea of the landscape and how this permeates your scheme. More could have been made of sculpturing the land in and around and through your scheme. Your exhibition space was the weaker of all 3 spaces.

Tony Trong
Key strength of the scheme: Some nice design options presented its also refreshing to see students do multiple options. Scheme No 2 could have been a more fruitful choice for design development it had fantastic beginnings.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: Incomplete animations – you needed to provide 3. You need to carefully think about the ground plane consider its materiality, density mass etc. How do you prevent earth from falling into your subterranean studio?

Youli Choi
Key strength of the scheme: Design development of your scheme – good progress. Your overall tectonic is interesting and had potential to be a great scheme.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: Incomplete submission – as a result the stairs/interior spaces are never seen in detail. Please carefully read your submission requirements in future.

Yvonne Chan
Key strength of the scheme: Beautiful forms and images – very sculptural and evocative. Great work.
Most significant weakness of the scheme: More formal resolution needed in order to gauge how you can actually use the spaces as per the brief. More could have been made about the schemes connection to the landscape.

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