So......Updates on studio. I am in Greece right now, but can update you on that when i can overview the whole trip and figure i would give an update of the work that i have been doing. When i scan the work in at the end of spring break you will be able to see what we have been doing. But the project was that we had a site assigned to us in Barcelona, and we were to create an analysis and potential transformations and present them in a layout of hand drawings. My plaza is called Plaza De La Merce, and it is down by the water. There is a design school that pretty much is the main activity on the plaza, but there is a really cool church for the patron saint of Barcelona that is at the head of the site. The plaza is simple a stone ground plane, with not a lot of activity and pretty much just a place that people walk through to get to their destinations faster.

So through the project, which was a group project, i learned a lot about the history of the site and some of the city. The city in this area became so dense that they chose this place, which used to be a normal city block, because of the entrance of the church on it and demolished the buildings on it to create a relief in an overly dense area. It is really kinda cool to look at the more urban scale, which this semester is all about, it is just kind of daunting to zoom out so much when we are so used to looking at a little area and designing one building. It is definately openin my eyes up to new ways of design.

This past week we also went to a building that used to be a hospital and was converted into a library, which is what it currently is. We were here for our sketching class, so we got to walk around a lot and really just observe and analyze how this building (or series of buildings) worked and how we felt in the space.

It is still, two months later, really cool to be studying everything about this city. There are so many pockets within in that people would never see unless they lived here, and not only do we get to see it but we get to analyze it and walk around it and observe it. It is like no where that i have seen before, and i see something new ever day that just completely fascinates me over and over again. I cant wait until today/tomorrow when i get to start taking friends around and show them not only what most tourists get to see but what is a little more hidden and has been showed to me through learning here.

Check in soon for a full breakdown of greece! I will have pictures and all of that fun stuff loaded as well as sketched that i did and studio work that i have been doing.