Finally there seems to be some progress in this whole graduation project!

Now that we as a group decided to just get started and design a very general idea for a masterplan based on the ideas that already are, the creative juices finally are starting to flow. Although I still can't grasp the scale of the decisions we are taking in this stage, the idea of designing a building in this place which deals with the very realistic problem of infrastructure incapturing Dutch cities, is starting to appeal to me. 

I'm getting more and more enthusiastic too about designing a railwaystation (one of my very first ideas for this project). The more I talk about the topic with different persons, the more inspired I get about my ideas of making a better place of these buildings. Approaching it in a more architectural way. This weekend I made a trip, attending some railwaystations in the Randstad, investigating the things that are and the things that should be. I want to register the problems of railwaystations of not being a nice place to be or to wait while also investigating the solutions that are already there to the many logistic and physical requirements of a railwaystation. 

I will post a matrix of the pictures I took in relation to their category (different elements that are inherent to the function of a railwaystation) and make an inquiry of discoveries I made. Besides that I will have to read into it a lot more. I have the feeling that there are tons of information waiting so I will have to define what I need to know before I start reading. 

Since our preperation for graduation has started almost 4 weeks ago, it has been such a mess. Great discussions between the teachers and between the students followed the introducory meeting and things haven't entirely become clear ever since. This new architectural engineering track seems to be utterly divided into two camps but there is no communication or whatsoever to get this over with.  Leaving the students with a task to create architecture without one single tutor being an architect. It's not clear who exactly is responsible for the things going on so it's difficult to complain.

Besides, what exaclty would I complain about? Me, myself and I are responsible for only partly getting started, not following my fascinations and waiting for a miracle to happen. I'm roaming in this land of nothingness, every meeting collecting negative energy from all students and teachers involved.

Yesterday our group had the second meeting with the assigned tutor. I can't blame the man for doing his job and following the program in the best way he can. However, we're still talking about nothing, going round in circles around the real problem of the assignment; there is no architectural solution for an urban problem and there is certainly no way of creating a realistic masterplan in one week.

For now, I decided to just go with the flow, trying to make the best of it but it's still difficult to get the drive. I'm really worried about not being guided by a teacher that can react on architecture and also of not creating sufficient arguments and a well-defined basis for the architectural task that is waiting.

I'm still hoping for better times somehow...

Hey, after al these years of studying I never used a welbog so I thought it might be time to open one

Enjoy!