Moving forward

Hi, guys:

As the project moving forward, the concept and the focus point from each of you is getting more and more clear and well defined into different directions, including the scale of the matter that you are trying to discuss, the theme of the retail space, and the way of exploring the negative architecture. At this point, I’d like to suggest we work in groups, for example, Mark’s focus point now is starting his discussion from the the scale of the whole park, Danielle has picked her theme of interest as the wedding dress store, and a lot of interesting ideas and treatment of the architecture is coming up, Katie has a interesting analysis about the way of dealing with a plane, and the dividing of the space, followed by the definition of the space. I think you guys can work more closely with each other, Mark could be the person focus on the master plan of the park, and provide the best location for Katie and Danielle’s building, through the discussion with them. And Katie and Danielle can continue focus on the architecture project you have been doing, but give Mark feed back on the site planning, and also about the design of the surrounding context of your building. This way, each of the student will gain the maximum experience from what they are doing and will all contribute to the team from the different aspect. You guys may also push the use of the interactive tool (skype or msn), you may call for the meeting with or without me and Jonathan, and we should have more group discussion for the rest of the semester. Let’s trying our best to get most out of this project!

Xu