Wednesday, 21 September 2011

20 minutes presentation of research doesn't seem enough

we were given a task of doing a research of everything that relates to what we are doing this semester; Zero Carbon House. Since this is a group work the class is split into groups of 3 or 4. and I got into a group with Gabi and Victoria both of whom have done a similar subject to this when we were in second year. so expectation is really high on us to score high marks for this assignment because Terry liked our mock presentation and he remembered the girls and their work well in the previous subject. so just in case we got this one low, I blame myself for bringing down the mark as I am new in this and have little idea what to do.

Victoria and Gabi were kind enough to help me with this assignment and they even point out every single step guiding me in this. I am really grateful for that. What I learned when I worked with them was that they are a perfectionist unlike me. They have high standards of work and never want a blank space on the paper. If they could, they would put EVERYTHING to get a HD. opportunity like this is rare for me but its really a precious one. it opens up and change my views of the way I should approach my design. though I know that I still lack the creativity that they have.

Anyway back to our topic. The Research. as for our group, Gabi divided all the workload for each one of us, well actually Viki did it in the first place but somehow Gabi seems to be the one who rearrange and organizing it. as for my work, I was given task to cover the history, people and water storage part out of GOD-KNOWS-HOW-MANY chapters that we need to cover. and the rest are split between the two others. after we have all completed our research, Gabi organized and composed them in an A0 poster using inDesign software which I am keen to learn when I have time. I should put that in my To-Do list. 

as far as I can recall, we basically covered everything as we can't fit anymore into our poster. but once we finished our presentation Terry pointed out that we didn't specify how long is the life span of our building will be, what age of people that will be using it and we didn't cover glass/glazing. but oh well. we slipped a few out of so many. I guess we could maybe get a Credit for that. but hey, it could be my first Credit of the semester or even the year cause I don't recall getting so many grades better than P. hmph! but good effort though with this one. I felt I can nail this subject. with some assistance. InshaAllah.


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