An architecture student has countless memories of their juries, examinations, and reviews in studios which make us altogether more different from the rest of the people in college.
One such memory is studying architecture online because of Covid-19 and also giving our juries online. Apart from these, there are a few things every architecture student would have experienced in their college life.
All-Nighters before submissions.
We all have experienced staying up all night to complete our submissions. Coffee, red bull has been the reason why we could stay up all night. Rendering our 3-D models to complete our sheet we have completed most of our submissions prior to the deadline.
Redo
All the hard-work gone waste is what we feel after we get a redo on our sheets. And we often feel, “Stayed up all night for a redo, could have been better if I slept.” Redoes are worse than heartbreaks is what we think. In the back of our minds we know it’s a part of the rigorous course we took up!
Work before the jury is never complete
Submissions in the field of architecture feel like a never-ending process despite several all-nighters. We tend to keep working until the time our jury takes place. Several deliverables are given and the design keeps on changing till the end minute makes it a never-ending process.
Our professors asking more questions than our juror in the jury
Most of us have experienced this, where our professors ask us more questions than our juror and also in most cases contradict the design we present on the day of our Jury even though the design has been approved by the faculty.
Betrayal by classmates during submissions
Well, architecture school is full of traitors as well. The fellow students, who agree or initiate the fact that no one will bring any sort of submission are present with a maximum number of deliverables that are asked for the following day.
Rain and Design Jury
This is one phenomenon most of us would have experienced. The day we have our jury is scheduled, it often tends to rain. There are a lot of models and sheets we carry on the day of the design jury and it suddenly rains when we are on the way to our college. The sudden change in weather also increases the tension for the jury as some of our work is incomplete.
Autocad/Photoshop/Lumion/ Illustrator/ Twinmotion crashes a night before the submission
A night before the submission day, if any of the above-mentioned software crashes, it breaks our heart nonetheless. It breaks our hearts, even more, when we did not save the file when we worked so hard on it. Almost all of us have had such experiences a night or a few hours before the jury or the submission day.
No North in the sheet
While drafting our construction or design drawings we often forget to add small details like this and often it is brought to our notice by our faculty or in our juries. This experience is also witnessed by most of the architecture students.
Generic Design Solutions
While studying architecture, we often tend to design buildings, which are generic in nature. The design faculty often discards our design by saying that the design is too generic. Staying up all night for this rejection feels a waste of time.
Electricity gone during prints
Sending our designs for prints at the end moment and electricity have gone or printers not working is one experience all architecture students have experienced at one point in time.
These experiences are remembered by the students during the pandemic. For most of us giving our juries online was an experience.
