That was a busy week (some time ago, my blog is late..)We brought down mountains, fought wars and slated dragons. Oh yeah, we did get some King’s X things done too. We started off the week by a failed trip to Lille. Not a bad start in my opinion. On Wednesday we had much more success. We met people behind a vey interesting project, which captures people’s voices around King’s Cross. This way, the memoies and experiences will never be lost. Unless ‘Windows’ crash and all data is lost. Stupid Microsoft. Anyway, we got a chance to interview and record some vey interesting people ourselves and that was great. Also, it was good to have someone to have on board with us who knows the whole area and is an inspiring figure himself - Alan Dein. His personal project of interviewing random people in phone booths has actually inspired me a lot and I think that poject was absolutely epic.
The next day we went to a large corporation BDP. They gave us a tour around their offices and ended the day by talking and showing how CAD works in reality. What struck me the most was that “it doesn’t matter what program you use and how you get to the final thing, the final thing is what matters”. This means there’s no need to show off with fancy programs if you can get you thing done right easily on SketchUp or something “amateur” as that. After that, they gave us a USB with their propaganda, i mean logo, and kicked us out. Straight after, we had a huge contrast. We met Adam Khan who designed a youth centre by himself alone, which contrasts heavily with BDP work as they employ a lot of people working towards the same project.
And for the finale on Friday, we went to Squire and partner where we got a task to do. Without visiting the site itself, only by looking at the pictures, we had to design a tram shed into something awesome. And we did, a nightclub for the masses! The model wasn’t so awesome, it was bit embarrassing showing it off to all the big people, because of how bad it was. I mean, the roof didn’t hold itself on properly. Epic Fail. However, we did get the closest thing done, because a bar/club was actually built in that place. So Epic Win for us. It was interesting to see even the chairman coming down to see what we had to present, but I think we got a bit too carried away with the arguing. Some people did anyways. All good though, more bloggingness to come later. Peace.
