Group 03 BRICK BY BRICK (Posted 20 May 2025 23:32) – MSA LIVE 25

05.20_WORKSHOP DAY 2 CLASS 4A PLAN DRAWING SESSION

Today was the final workshop day at Oswald Road and the culmination of our preparation work. Our work today was all in the classroom, meaning that a master’s student from each group had to teach a class.

For class 4A, the responsibility fell onto me. For being not completely prepared for this undertaking, I think it went rather well. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to talk to a room full of children like that, but they were all really attentive and receptive to the PowerPoint. I have to say that the PowerPoint was great so props to the team that pulled it together - it was easy for me to follow and for the children to understand what we were working through.

The morning session consisted of teaching the children some more architectural skills. The children picked up and understood the concept of plans, sections and elevations through drawing their breakfast and a piece of fruit amazingly and this helped immensely with the coming tasks.

I didn’t really know what we were expecting when we gave the children the site plans, but what they came up with was creative and imaginative and they took the conversations over themselves once they were started. They talked about what they wanted to include and discussed between themselves how they would put them into the spaces we had, and the students helped out with what the children were thinking. I think this process helped us to realise just how much we have learned through our studies so far that we subconsciously think about when designing when we had to try to pass on some of this information to the children as they were drawing. In turn, the children have reminded us of the creative freedom we once had back then and how that can help us create more imaginative designs ourselves, and I think we were all thinking of ways that we could try to make some of their crazy designs more into reality throughout the process, making it an invaluable experience for all of us.

Posted 20 May 2025 23:32

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