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November 4th, 2009

Adventures of an IAD Student… Shelter Design

Well. It’s been an eternity and a half since I’ve posted an IAD Adventures update. I suppose I’ve just been so overwhelmed with university these days that the last thing I’ve wanted to post about is … university. My blog has become more my escape than anything else. But I want that to change.

So to make a long story short: My second semester of study as an Interior Architecture and Design (IAD) student started back in early September. I’m taking 3 studio classes. Two are IAD classes, and one is a required foundations (FND) course in drawing.i For now, I’m going to delve into one of my IAD classes: Design of the Built Environment Aii. This class is pretty much my first strictly design class. Conceptual Design, which I took in the summer, was the pre-requisite to this course and it essentially taught you how to work through the design process to give whatever you were designing – be it a light fixture, a piece of furniture, a room, or even an entire building – meaning and significance. DotBE is, in a nut shell, an extension of that class. However now, we’re actually designing structures which is super duper exciting! (It’s my favourite class.)

Our first assignment of the course was to create a fully functional shelter, meaning our structure had to run entirely off of solar/wind/water power and use no electricity.

Site Topography

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  1. For the interested, my two design classes as Design of the Built Environment A, and Introduction to Construction Documents. My foundations course is called Sketching for Communication. (»)
  2. which I’m going to refer to as DotBE since the title is freakin’ loooooong (»)

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July 27th, 2009

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July 23rd, 2009

ShimmerLikeGold.org… Adventures of an IAD Student

As I’m sure frequent visitors to my blog know, I’ve just started my second degree in Interior Architecture in Design (IAD). I’m just coming up on the end of my first course within two week’s time, and it’s been quite the experience to say the least! It’s very demanding and challenging creatively, but it’s also one of the greatest things I’ve ever done for myself. I was hesitant about starting up yet another degree so soon after I finished my last (only in May), but I couldn’t be happier with my decision. Design is what I truly love and I’m so excited to finally be working towards something I’m passionate about.

Plan, Elevation, Axonometric of Light Fixture Drawings (plan, elevation and axonometric) of a selected light fixture

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