One Crit Down, 4 To Go?

So I'm not sure how many more crits I have until the Final Crit, but I am one more crit closer than I was! After a late night in the studio, 4am to be exact, I had a very successful studio crit and am feeling very good about my project. Was it worth staying till 4? Yes, because my other other option was to leave at 11, and at the point I would have regretted leaving without pushing more work out.

See, here is the big flaw in the living situation here in Berlin. It takes me 45 minutes to get from my apartment to studio. It is all by subway and there is only one place I have to get off and switch lines, but it still takes a long time. The apartment is bout 4-5km from the studio, so walking there anytime between 11-4 is out of the question, but the last train leaves the nearby station at 11, and if you are not on it, you have to wait for the next one... at 4am!

So I willing missed the 11pm train knowing that I should stay and pump out some more work, and that is what I did and it paid off big. My professor loved where I was with my design, he was a little concerned with the fact that my building is based on 3 different concepts: Views, Circulation, and Spaces. He felt that my building focused around 1 very powerful central view, which is correct and that was my intention. His concern was that my other two concepts might start to take away from that one central view as my project progresses. I saw his point and have already thought of some ways to make the central view the top priority and make my other concepts minor supports. This should be good.

With that, my next step is getting my building ready for the engineering students, who will come in next Monday and be "HVAC consultants." This should be interesting, I think it will be the first time any of us have really worked 1-on-1 with an engineer. We will need to meet their needs and they will help guide our building from wasting too much energy and show us areas that need improvement.

I am looking forward to all of this, I hope all this traveling doesn't tire me out too much and I lose my motivation and ambition on this project. I like where it's going and I'm already excited to see the end result!

Thanks for the support all. But now it is time for me to go to bed... even though it's only 7pm!

Gute Nacht!