VCO1203 Zine What is it like to study Spatial Design?

duy anh vco1203

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Presenting individual work Others: clear concepts, impressive renderings, sophisticated drawings and diagrams, everything under control, on top of the world.

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Meanwhile,...

Me: having no clue what the heck i'm doing, can't even tell the differences between elevation and section, far from halfly done, in a league of my own...at bottoming the course and being on the verge of almost failing.

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Physically There, Mentally Elsewhere.

Daytime: daydreaming about that wonderful dream last night.

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, BUT...

Nighttime: super-brain architecture master-mind mode activated.

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Me when someone says things like: "SDN students are so lucky because they don't have to take any exams. Their degree is so easy. All they have to do is creating beautiful presentation drawings."

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When your laptop is so hot that you can light up the incense burner to pray for God's help.

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My eyes after spending 10 hours straight on detailed plans, sections, & elevations.

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When your laptop keeps lagging for the whatever time you lost count, while all you want to do is exporting your crappy work.

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Me time travelling to the past to slap the sense out of my younger self for being so naive and innocent.

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Me going through the list of requirements for the final project submission.

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The only 3D modelling iteration that effectively comes to life.

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Me buying materials and supplies for making models and drawing sketches.

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Me looking back at my past works from previous years that I once was so proud of.

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Me walking around the neighborhood and taking random photos of grass, brick walls and concrete floor as a documentation for site analysis,... ...while everybody else is looking at you as if you are an undercover detective for some kind of a FBI crime scene or a wanna-be tourist photographer.

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Me refining my trashy work and pretending as if it is a high quality exhibition-worthy art masterpiece.

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Me being overwhelmingly drowned by the accumulating deadlines due on the very same week that I procrastinated and crammed everything until the last minutes to start working on.

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Diagrams...or should I say... DIE-agrams.

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Another abbreviated meaning for SDN (Spatial DesigN studio).

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Me skipping classes for more than twothird of the semester, and still miraculously never ever failing / barely passing.

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Death is not a valid reason to run away from studio work, whether you are in heaven or hell.

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Love/Hate relationship status: Broke up with Rhinoceros 6 but then got back together 30 minutes later after Rhino stopped going cray cray for the 2021 times.

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Me patiently listening to others from different faculties complaining how stressful their degrees are.

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Me after explaining my design ideas & concepts for the 2021 times to the teachers, but they still don't understand what the heck I have been talking about, while the due date is a week away.

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Spatial Design as "The Creation of Adam" So close, yet so far away.

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Spatial Design as an UNO card game Me feeling like finishing the whole project after just barely working on a site plan.

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Me spending more than 3 out of 4 hourlong studio class chit-chatting and laughing non-sense about whether to continue to do work in class or later at home, which obviously as if that would ever happen.

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My personal first-aid survival kit (highly recommended, especially during the final weeks).

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