Progress

My observation at the end of today's crits is that

1. About half of you already have plan-ideas that work quite well.
2. Among them, a few have plan-ideas which are actually quite exciting! And I am really looking forward to seeing how these plans actually work out.
3. The other half are mostly those who have either only just got the right idea for the plan or have not seen me for some time (did not see me today.)

Note that I said "plan ideas." You must now soldier on to make them into brilliant PLANS where

• there are walls with thicknesses, columns, and openings in walls
• there are floor lines that show a change in floor material or a change in level
• there are dotted lines showing the outline of your roof above
• the 15 carparking bays and vehicular circulation are efficiently laid out without taking more space than is necessary
• rooms and spaces are laid out with an understanding of axis and articulation of space
• there are nice transitional spaces here and there to connect the inside and the outside
• some landscaping lines showing where's grass, where are bushes, where are trees, and where are hard surfaces

NOW THIS IS WHAT EVERYONE MUST DO: Draw your OUTLINE floor plans and roof plans at 1:100 and post on blog by either Friday 6 Oct 2000hr or Saturday 7 Oct at 1200hr.

Those who are making the site model post on Saturday, those who are not post on Friday.

I will give helpful comments on blog for all postings so that you can carry on intelligently on the right track for Monday's Interim Crit No.3. YES, Interim Crit No.3 as originally scheduled is on! Pin up whatever you've got by 1330 on Monday 9 Oct.

As I have pointed out, we are all behind and must catch up. There are so many potentially good schemes among you that we must make the effort to bring them out at the end to make all the hard work worth the while.

Your outline plans can be in either AUTOCAD or manually drawn---whichever you can do faster, and they must be to scale. Don't forget to show the building setback line in dotted. And remember the building setback applies only to building-rooms, not to carparks, playstructures and verandahs. (Obviously you can post more than plans if you want to, but that's optional.)

Just to reasssure you, I am still giving tutorials every Mon and Wed until Submission Day. But what I have asked you to do in this post is ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL for your own good.