TECH CRITS

++ Wednesday was tech crit/midterm reviews. i pulled my first all-nighter on tuesday for the first time since about 2nd year. well, technically i got 45 minutes of sleep on the couch in studio, but it was intermittent at that and its only because i was waiting for my drawings to plot. so, it was more like a nap and less like sleep. oh, and i was sitting, not laying down. but because i know you care...tech crits went well. i showed them a bunch of stuff they had not seen yet..something about two independent structural systems, one of 30" concrete sitting in a rubble trench with 30" of rammed earth on of the concrete and the second a free-standing roof supported by 40" glulam beams sitting on huge concrete footings, slipping through the walls. its quite beautiful in section how these two overly huge systems can work simbiotically in such a confined space in such an extreme environment. the committee asked some provoking questions and brought up several points which were both useful and of value. one more hoop to jump through and then its time to pomp and circumstance my way outta here. ++