• Am I meeting the submission requirements?
• Am I excited about my work (not "is this what my tutor wants")
• What is the clearest way of presenting my ideas?
• Am I presenting my ideas to their greatest advantage?
Using Miriam's scheme as an example, one of her ideas was for series of drawers cantilevered off a post. Each drawer contains a different part of the programme. The sides and base of each drawer are opaque or translucent and the drawers are spaced to allow roof light to what is effectively courtyard space. The space between each drawer therefore becomes critical.
A presentation of this idea might include:
• A diagrammatic section showing how each space is lit and ventilated.
• Another diagram showing the cantilever and the space between "drawers"
• Layouts showing that the programme can be achieved with large spaces between "drawers"
• Ideas for transparencies in the "drawers"
• Ways of distributing the programme
• Hierarchy of heights between "drawers"
• A perspective taken from the angle of a Sussex St pedestrian or motorist showing the appearance of the soffits and ideas on how these will be treated (material, lighting, texture, colour.
• Precedents that have inspired this solution (these might include the Wall-less House and/or the Balcony House by Tezuka Architects, the lit soffit of David Adjaye's Dirty House (below), the translucency of Zumthor's Kolumba Museum in Cologne (below), sculpture by Donald Judd and installations by James Turrell (in separate Post below).
Finally, if you believe (like Miriam) that converging ideas might dilute the strength of one idea, make that argument (well). The techniques you have been shown (Joanne's convergence idea for example) are only useful to the extent they are useful. When they cease being useful ideas, stop using them.
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