You did a fantastic job going through Day 9 and produced all the amazing deliverables. Last but not least, share your work with a large audience like your peers, teachers, friends, clients, and even strangers. Get feedback from fresh eyes. In architecture school, it is called presentation; in the real world, it is communication.
You have been learning and practicing storytelling in the past few days. Now, let’s learn some techniques so you can tell a story more concisely and convincingly. There’s no perfect rule. Checkout “Supporting materials” for reference and inspiration. Tell the story in your way.
The only secret to be a successful presenter and communicator is practicing over and over again.
– Watch the videos.
– Summarize a plan for your presentation based on your big story, deliverables, and the techniques just learned.
– Present your skyscraper design to as many people as you can invite.
– Videotape your presentation.
– Watch the videos.
– Summarize a plan for your presentation based on your big story, deliverables, and the techniques just learned.
– Present your skyscraper design to as many people as you can invite and collect feedback.
– Videotape your presentation and feedback.
– Watch the videos.
– Summarize a plan for your presentation based on your big story, deliverables, and the techniques just learned.
– Present your skyscraper design (5 munites) to as many people as you can invite and collect feedback.
– Videotape your presentation and feedback.
– Reflect on how you can make your design better orally (1 minute) or in a written format (300 words).
– Watch the videos.
– Summarize a plan for your presentation based on your big story, deliverables, and the techniques just learned.
– Present your skyscraper design (10 minutes) to as many people as you can invite and collect feedback.
– Videotape your presentation and feedback.
– Reflect on how you can make your design better orally (3 minutes) or in a written format (500 words).
Now, you have a great story and design. However, it is a common misconception that skyscrapers—their height, design, and exterior façade—are the creation of an architect’s artistic vision. As the drawing illustrates, this is rarely the case. Checkout “Supporting materials” below for the secrets behind design.
– Read through the document and questions in “Supporting materials”.
– Try to calculate and answer the questions.
– Try to calculate the construction cost of your skyscraper with the model you made at Day 8 Activity 2 Option 2.
– Read through the document and questions in “Supporting materials”.
– Calculate and answer the questions.
– Make a simplified summary sheet for your skyscraper.
– Try to calculate a breakdown construction cost of your skyscraper with the model you made at Day 8 Activity 2 Option 2.
– Read through the document and questions in “Supporting materials”.
– Calculate and answer the questions.
– Make a simplified summary sheet for your skyscraper.
– Using the model you made at Day 8 Activity 2 Option 2 as a reference, calculate a breakdown construction cost of your skyscraper as detail as possible in the summary sheet.
– Read through the document and questions in “Supporting materials”.
– Calculate and answer the questions.
– Make a simplified summary sheet for your skyscraper. (List as many kinds of costs of your skyscraper as possible. )
– Using the model you made at Day 8 Activity 2 Option 2 as a reference, calculate a breakdown construction cost of your skyscraper as detail as possible in the summary sheet.
Your design is so close to being built. Checkout “Supporting materials” below for the last lesson – schedule. The schedule is usually made as early as design started. And time affect cost as much as other components. Time inflation is the case that the longer the construction takes the more expensive the overall cost will be. Click here to have a snapshot that how compensation is made between design, cost, and schedule during the construction of the Dubai Creek Tower.
Last but not least, reflect the whole camp. Architects reflect and learn from the past in order to make better designs in the future.
– Layout everything you produced and tried in the past ten days.
– Document them one by one via scanning and/or photo taking and/or videotaping.
– Reflect your ten-day experience in any visual or verbal format.
– Layout everything you produced and tried in the past ten days.
– Document them one by one via scanning and/or photo taking and/or videotaping.
– Reflect your ten-day experience in any visual or verbal format.
– Layout everything you produced and tried in the past ten days.
– Document them one by one via scanning and/or photo taking and/or videotaping.
– Reflect your ten-day experience in any visual or verbal format.
– Layout everything you produced and tried in the past ten days.
– Document them one by one via scanning and/or photo taking and/or videotaping.
– Reflect your ten-day experience in any visual or verbal format.
Click here to see how an architecture student presents the project to internal and external juries. It is a 20 minutes presentation. As for inspiration, you do not have to watch the whole.
There’s no right or wrong way to present and communicate your design. Different architects have different styles and habits. You can develop your own style through practicing, reflecting, and adjusting presentation techniques. Click here for the tips given by a young architect.
There’s difference between presentation in academy and communication in the real world. Click here to see an example.
“A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.” —Cass Gilbert, Architect (1900)
Most skyscrapers are ‘speculative’ buildings, meaning that they are created to produce a profit for those who finance their construction. Real estate investors must consider a number of economic factors before deciding that a skyscraper will be a worthwhile investment, including:
In most cases, the height of a building—when not limited by zoning laws—is limited by its own costs.
Accountants kept a careful record of the cost of each aspect of the Empire State Building’s construction.
Summary sheets were then created to show the overall costs of construction. This is an example of a
summary sheet.
Think about the following questions:
Refer to https://old.skyscraper.org/
A schedule is usually made between clients, design team, and construction team. Other natural or human events may be considered like annual snowstorm, routined super hot summer days, holidays, etc.. It shares a general template but various project by project.
Architects will try their best to follow the schedule because once one step is behind, all the following steps will have to shift. Consequentially, the cost will increase less or more.
A schedule is also a comprehensive way to view the project from the very early stage of design to eventually been constructed and evaluated.
Below is an example of the schedule.
Congratulations! Did you have fun? We would love to hear your daily achievements, feedback, and any stories you had during today’s activities.
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