Assessment Step 3

It's been terrible. 

After our Mondays' session I imagine you agree with me. It was most discouraging.

We know it's difficult but I must say, if we were really an Architectural Office, and this had been a real Competition, after the brain storming, we would have all gone back to our seats, to our computers, knowing we still didn't have an strong idea on which we could support our proposal. None of the 16 re-programming ideas was suggestive and creative enough to allow us to continue with any garantee of success.

Some of them were quite interesting; others collages where well developed; a few hibrids seemed to be properly studied...; but there wasn't  clear, strong, suggestive and new idea for such a particular site.

Of course there were some differences between the work of the different groups. We may say that  proposals presented by groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 13, 14 and 16, were just a little better than the others, due to either the strengh of their ideas or the effort they had put in their presentations. But, anyway, all of them insufficient to configure a final design.

As I said, dissapointing. Yet, not unusual. We architect don't always follow the rigid logical sequence site-program-design. There are other multiple ways of completing and excellent project. So don't hesitate, work hard on your models and I'm sure the re´programming proposal will clearly appear along the proccess.

As they say, it's easier to learn from our mistakes and failures than from our successes.