I'm going Down Under .... Bye and thank you

Bueno, bueno, pandilla. Esta vez, en castellano. Quizás por última vez.

Algunos lo sabéis ya, pero esta entrada es para despedirme. Me voy a vivir a Australia y, por lo tanto, este ha sido mi último semestre en la UCJC. Voy a la Universidad de Deakin, a la facultad de Architecture and Environment, cerquita de Melbourne. Tiene una pinta excelente. La decisión estaba tomada hace tiempo, y no creo que merezca la pena en este foro comentar los pormenores. Pero sabed todos y todas, que si por una casualidad de la vida, os dejáis caer por allí, no dudéis en buscarme. Espero que mantengamos el contacto.

Solo tengo que decir un par de cosas:
- Que este último semestre ha sido estupendo, por el compromiso y dedicación que toda la Unidad ha puesto en juego. Mi más sincera enhorabuena y agradecimiento por algo, que aunque no sabíais, me ha hecho la despedida mucho más agradable.
- Y que os deseo la mejor de las suertes en lo que os queda de carrera universitaria y, lo que es más importante, en vuestra trayectoria profesional posterior. Abrid bien los ojos, no paréis de aprender, y estudiad el enorme abanico de posibilidades que nuestra amada carrera podrá tener en el futuro inmediato en todo el planeta.

Lo dicho: Un placer y hasta la vista. Espero que nos encontremos pronto en alguna parte...

Final Qualifications and more....

Well, I join Diego´s congratulations.

I think we've taken risks, but we are convinced that the result, learning and involvement have been much more than satisfactory.

And qualifications are the proof. 31 out of 32 students who have completed the course, it is simply memorable.

We are aware that some people has greatly benefited the dynamics of the groups, going largely trailer and, on the other hand, if we were worried in the beginning, people who had something to prove by themselves, responded pulling clearly with extra responsibility their corresponding groups.

A single abandonment, for purely personal issues, makes us feel really proud. We grieve the fails, but in all cases, a final effort could not compensate for the huge gap that was accumulated throughout the semester. We will meet in the exam with the failed students, on june the 11th at 10 oclock.

In short: congratulations and thanks for the effort at all.

We are particularly proud of some personal cases, efforts and progresses, but we firmly believe that the collective result has been excellent as we could see in our unit´s exhibition last thursday. Great.

We remain on track. We´ll keep in touch. Soon.

Unit V&F. 
Final qualifications second semester.

Sergio F	7,0	NOTABLE
Carlos	6,5	APROBADO
Alberto	7,0	NOTABLE
Laura R	8,0	NOTABLE
Rafael	5,0	APROBADO
Andrés	5,0	APROBADO
David	9,5	SOBRESALIENTE
MªJosé G G	5,5	APROBADO
Ínigo	6,5	APROBADO
MªJosé R R	9,0	SOBRESALIENTE
Daniela	5,0	APROBADO
Lavinia	5,5	APROBADO
Michele	5,5	APROBADO
Dimitra	7,0	NOTABLE
Panagiotis	4,0	SUSPENSO
Aikaterini	6,5	APROBADO
Arturo	4,0	SUSPENSO
Francisco	5,5	APROBADO
Martha	4,0	SUSPENSO
Angel	4,0	SUSPENSO
Laura A	5,5	APROBADO
Jesús Miguel	9,0	SOBRESALIENTE
Bárbara	7,5	NOTABLE
Jorge	4,0	SUSPENSO
Cristina	6,0	APROBADO
Luis	5,5	APROBADO
José Antonio	9,5	SOBRESALIENTE
Sergio L	6,0	APROBADO
Miguel L	7,0	NOTABLE
Enrique	6,0	APROBADO
Adela	6,5	APROBADO
Arian	8,0	NOTABLE

 

SUCCESS

I absolutely agree with our "speedy" gallego (I thought I was quick but now I can confirm I'm getting old). Congratulations for previous entry. Good photographs and accurate opinion about our Unit's performance.

So, I'd like to congratulate all students in the Unit for two things:

- For your general performance along the whole semester, both in individual and team work. I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have, and I'm pretty sure you've all developed some skills you didn't expect to. Risky but finally, very good expererience.

- For our jury's final stand. Both for it's preparation and it's execution. Of course there are differences between the work done by each one. But my impression is that everyone completed his/her tasks, and we were able to present a very solid and complete exhibition of our semester. I don't think many Units have  achived that 31 out of 32 students have completed their semester, with everybody involved in every step until last day. So well done, congratulations and thanks all of you.

I absolutely agree with Eduardo Arroyo when he says the built environment we chose for this semester would probably not deserve the attention we paid to it. Probably it would have been smarter just to demolish the whole ilegal construction and start with something else. We knew that from the beginning. That was the basic point of our research. And what is most important: I'm also sure that if quite a few of your final proposals were actually built, that new environment would never need to be demolished for it's lack of architectural interest and it's useless morphology.

That's it then. We recieved and we're checking all the extra documentation some of you handed in during the jury and we'll briefly publish our final assemment. And... I'll say goodbye to all of you. Congratulations.

Stand UNIT V&F ¨ JURY SUMMER SHOW 2013 ¨

Enhorabuena a toda la unidad V&F, ya que sin el esfuerzo final no hubiera sido posible. La puesta en escena  :).

(Opinión personal) : Cada grupo debería estar orgulloso de su propuesta ya que aunque partíamos de una infraestructura no muy sugerente, todos hemos llegado a una definición unos mas detallada otros menos pero como unidad que somos se ha logrado que lleguemos todos al final. Que al principio habia dudas de que eso fuera posible ;), sin más daros las gracias de nuevo. Un saludo

Grupo 4

Diego me ha comentado hoy que lo que faltase por corregir había que subirlo aquí. 

Pido primer!

Diego says to me this morning that who has thing to show today upload the images here.

 (Lo he intentado jaja)

Añadir leyenda

Warm up... final instructions

OK! I suppose everything must be more or less ready. Let's hope so.

A little more work to do tomorrow morning, and this will be it. Congratulations in advance to everyone.

Here I leave you some final instructions, tasks and timestables for tomorrow. It's really important everyone contributes as much as possible. We know some of you have exams an other kind of appointments during the day. But, I repeat, as soon as you can, come quickly to the COAM. There's quite a lot of work to do, and if we are all there, in a couple of hours we'll finish and we'll be able to relax and have fun the rest of the day. But if only four or five people have to build the exhibition, things might get tough, I'll feel very dissapointed, and... you don't want to see how I react when I'm dissapointed, do you?

Therefore, this is our timetable:

10.00 a.m. I'll be at the COAM by that time to start working on the exhibition. I know some of you are coming then, bringging theirs and others material. We'll start preparing the final panels. EVERYONE THAT CAN, please arrive between 10.00 and 10.30. Plenty of work to sort out.

11.00 a.m. Joaquín will be arriving more or less at that time with the rest of the material we need. By this time EVERYBODY that doesn`t have an exam programmed at the UCJC should be helping at the COAM.

12.00 We've been told, that Geometry exam finishes at noon. After that, the rest of students, come quickly to the COAM to complete the instalation. My intention is to have our area ready at 13.30, so we can eat something before afternoon and evening lectures and juries.

15.00 Eduardo Arroyo will open the show with a brief lecture on his own work which is most advisable. The session will continue until 20.00 or so. All of it seems very, very interesting.

20.00 Drinks and catering

21.30 As Marta Toral told us, we'll start to tidy up then (not before). I think in half an hour everything should be ready, so by 10.00 p.m. you'll all be free to go for a swim if you wish... (or whatever...)

Material:

1. Every student that hadn't completed any of the documents requested on previous stages, steps, etc... must print their new documentation, bring it to the COAM, and hand it in to Joaquin or myself any moment along the day. No material will be received after tomorrow. With all the work done so far, the material you'll produce for tomorrow's show, and this extra documentation some of you might present tomorrow, we'll make your FINAL ASSESSMENT. So... it's up to you.

2. I know "el gallego" has been after most of you. I also remind you to bring all your models to the exhibition. We'll try to present as many as possible. But we need all of them there.

3. Of course, I imagine all the panels, first steps and final designs are already ready and printed. I hope "el malagüeño" has most of them so he'll take them to the COAM at 10.00 a.m., so we can start sticking them to their final supports. If not, sharp at 10.00 a.m. everybody with their panels there to allow us to start working.

I think this is more or less it. I'll only tell you it's quite a special date for myself, for various reason I'll shortly tell all of you. So I really ask you for a final effort to make this summer jury a great success. Thanks.

So... are you ready to rumble?

Thanks to our guests Germán Moreno, Isabel de Cárdenas and Marta Pastor for their collaboration on the last day of class of Unit V&F!!!

#HospitalRobado #Concepto jeje

Aviso Importante Jury: Desmontaje

Lecturer in charge of ouy Jury & Exhibition is Marta Toral. Here you have the message she's just sent me:

"Buenas tardes a todos

AVISO IMPORTANTE para el jury del jueves:

La exposición de trabajos de alumnos se recoge DESPUÉS DEL CATERING (eso será a partir de las 21.30h seguramente, pero la hora es variable). Por favor, es importante que los alumnos NO SE LLEVEN EL MATERIAL HASTA EL FINAL para evitar el look "hospital robado" de otras ocasiones...

Os ruego que se lo comuniquéis expresamente por correo y que os encarguéis de que sea así a través de los encargados del "desmontaje", porque si no luego a mi no me hacen ni caso...

Muchas gracias a todos"

For those of you who don't know her yet, my personal advice is to do things exactly as she says. She's usually pretty clear and she adores to have everything under strict control. So.... we should all follow her instructions... (je, je, ;-) Marta)

After 21.30, in a quick quarter of an hour we can have all our material and spaces completely tidied up, and we'll be all ready to go for a(nother) drink.

PD. I don't quite understand the expression "look hospital robado". Any ideas?

Step 0

Por favor, mandadme los que faltais, una imagen vectorial, preferiblemente en perspectiva, para poderla pasar a illustrator y hacer el panel. Es decir, me sirve o el archivo en Autocad,Rhino o Revit del 3D, o de un dibujo en dwg del edificio en perpectiva(la que más os guste).... pero madadlo yaaaaaa!!

Please, send me all of yours a vectorial image, if Its posible in perspective, because of in this way I may import to illustrator and finish the panel. So, I'll need, on the one hand a 3D file in Autocad Rhino or Revit, or if you prefer a dwg drawing of your building in perspective.... but send it to me RIGHT NOW!!! please :-/

lopezaraquistain@gmail.com

STEP 5 Maqueta+Programa

Hola favor de enviar lo antes posible el panel A4 de la Maqueta+ Programa. Hasta ahora solo esta el panel de Maria Jose y Jose Antonio faltan 11 mas. 

Lo pueden enviar a adeakosta@gmail.com o poner subirlo al grupo de dropbox 

SALUDOS

Assessment Step 9

We're nearly there...

Well done everyone. 

I think we had a really interesting session this morning. Comments made by our two guest juries were most helpful. We had asked them to be specially  clear with their assessment and to focus on your communication skills. You must all understand their opinions in this sense, and please try to improve in the future with all their valious advices. I personally think they were absolutely accurate. You must all be specially aware that our audiences in the future will not be mainly architects so it's most helpful to hear how our ideas are understood by a non-proffesional audience.

But Joaquin and I, we both know your designs pretty well and we also know how you normally explain yourselves. So, regarding this background, we both want to congratulate all Design Teams for their presentations. Well done, well prepared and good effort. Nevertheless, don't forget to continue practising and improving. You'll see your results pretty soon. We feel specially proud of those of you who are terribly shy and that have shown great difficulties in expressing their ideas in front of a big audience. Understand this exercise as a first step in a long, long way to go. We hope you've realised it's not that difficult, and that 80% of success relies on specific preparation. Good work!

As always, there are differences between groups. We obviously don't have any excellent presentations. But the eight of them were at least correct. We think, for different reasons, groups 1, 2,6,7 and 8 have done slightly better than design teams 3, 4 and 5. But what is most important is that all of them have demostrated an important improvement. 

We'll make a brief comment on each one of the presentations:

Design Group 1: Great improvement by Jesús! Continue practicing and you'll finally get rid of that monotonous voice entonation.

Design Group 2: Great visual supporting documentation! Well done Bárbara.

Design Group 3: Control your nerves Carlos. Much better, but still some way to go. Preparation is the best medicine for those nerves

Design Group 4: Clear presentation. A little more preparation would allow Sergio not to have to improvise so much. Anyway, he's also demostrated to have enough habilities to manage the situation

Design Group 5: Correct but rather cold presentation of your design. Good sketches and final images

Design Group 6: Very effective way to introduce your inside images. Very good idea!

Design Group 7: Great start... got a little lost in the second half. Use some of the ideas you've seen today.

Design Group 8: Great profit of the material you had produced. Good final sprint...

Our advice is that you should pay atention to this kind of sessions. Remember other students presentations and try to build a severe critic of your own one. Learn, copy, try to improve and complete future strategies for the same type of assigment. 

Let go for our jury... Final step! Really...

message sent !!!

Como buen mensajero, ya tenéis todos en vuestros emails ¨ las plantillas del JURY ¨ :). No me ha dado ningún fallo de envió así que si no le ha llegado a alguien que me avise al contacto de mi anterior post, y para cualquier ayuda que necesitéis estoy disponible ;).

P/D -> Si a alguien le va mal el formato psd que haga un jpg y lo ponga de fondo como imagen el autocad.



ANIMO A TODOS que ya es el ultimo esfuerzo, y enhorabuena a todos los que expusieron hoy.

Summer Jury & Exhibition

Final meeting point! Let's make it something special!

Beware it's taking place in LASEDE COAM, not in the Fundación as the last one.
Tomorrow morning we'll make final appointments after your presentations. Good luck for everyone and remember.... PRACTICE!

See you...

Planning JURY ; unit VF

Exhibición Jury  : Unit VF 2013

                                 Profesores: Diego Fullaondo Buigas de Dalmau + Joaquín López Vaamonde.

Responsables: 

                                 Exhibición: David García-Louzao Araujo (P.4) + José Antonio García Ruiz (P.6)

*Recuerdo la importancia del compromiso de todas las parejas, ¨ Hay buenas propuestas ¨ y esta es una buena oportunidad o escaparate para lucir el trabajo de cuatro largos meses (Puede pasar desapercibido o sacar pecho y lucirlos).

a)       Para la homogenización de los paneles indicaremos una plantilla común PSD(Photoshop)+ las bases de la IMPRESIÓN PARA TODOS LOS STEPS.

b)       Los paneles irán en base de cartón marrón, material que proporcionara la universidad

(Aún sin definir pero agradecimientos a Joaquín, por la obtención de ellos).

c)       Rogamos tenerlos cuanto antes, por el siguiente motivo ya que si hay que corregir algo que de tiempo para la exhibición. (Ideal sería 27 o 28/05/2013 con un o dos días de antelación).

IMPRESIÓN GLOBAL :

Todos los paneles 22 en total en :

Formato : A1 VERTICAL ( Con la utilización de la respectiva plantilla ) .

PAPEL : A1 FOTOGRÁFICO  SATINADO  * Importante ya que la calidad de impresión es otro mundo.

(Me han informado que si se tiene el recibo del costo la universidad reembolsara la cantidad) Así que POR FAVOR no hay escusas.

Distribuiremos el trabajo en dos partes :

1º) Steps 0,1,2,3,4,5.

2º) Steps 6,7,8.  

1º) Un panel A1 por grupo.

Step 0 : Iñigo + Cristina  (Panel presentación)

En vuestro hacer recae el peso de enganchar a los espectadores ( Un panel con imágenes sugerentes que inviten a acercarse y a documentarse más sobre los proyectos seria más que deseable).  

Sugerencia (Esquema tipológico) :

Plantilla + PREGUNTA (que hacer con la arquitectura vacía) + Respuesta Unit VF ¨ RELOADING M3 ¨ + Las mejores imágenes de cada propuesta en un panel resumen( Ya que se detallara en el hueco de step 6,7,8).

Además estaría bien que en el hueco que te sobre de la presentación hagas una jerarquización de los integrantes de la unidad, ya que sin ellos nada de esto seria realizado.

(Como una carta de presentación).

Ejemplo :

Profesores : Nombres completos (Diego+Joaquín)

Resposables :

Exhibición ->       Nombres completos (David + Jose)

Presentación –>  Nombres completos (Arian + Mª Jose)

Integrantes :

Nombres completos de la unidad.

(Ya que hemos colaborado todos hay que dejar constancia de ello, sería ideal algo así).

Step 1 : Sergío ( Toma de datos (Puesta en obra))  1 A1 VERTICAL.

Creo que estaría bien que apareciese la foto del grupo con Joaquín y diego  en el centro explicando. ( después resumen de los datos que creas convenientes y maquetado con la plantilla).

Step 2 : Mª Jose + Rafael ( Creación de la documentación gráfica) A1 VERTICAL.

*IMPORTANTE LO DE LA NORMATIVA + lo del PARQUER NATURAL.

Step 3 : Carlos + Laura  ( Progrmas + FOTO RESULTADOS *pedir a Joaquín)

*Exponerlo con la plantilla y ser lo ams creativos posibles ya que había buenas propuestas.

(paintball,cocina,residencia,etc.)

Step 4 : Arturo + Angel (Maquetas) IMPORTANTE las maquetas estarán expuestas.

Por lo que más que poner fotos de ellas que también debéis hacerlo, teneis que explicar un poco el paso hablando de la experimentación formal de lo existente, con algunas fotos de las maquetas mas sugerentes que se votaron.

Step 5 : (¿Adela?+ ¿? )  (Maqueta+ reprogramación)

Había buenas propuestas así que ser creativas con la plantilla del A1, recopilación y presentación ánimo.

2º) Dos paneles A1 por grupo.

Ser lo más creativos recopilando la información que podáis, ya que este punto a al nivel que llegamos cuanto mejor este mejor quedaremos.

Grupo 1 : Jesús + Laura (Ojo imágenes ,alzados y esquemas llegar a un equilibrio).

Grupo 2 : Bárbara + Dimitra (Buen proyecto, sacarle el máximo provecho).

Grupo 3 :  Enrique (Animo ya que lo haces en solitario)

Grupo 4 : Lavigna + Miguel  ( Recopilación + Maquetación )

Grupo 5 : ¿Daniela+ Aikaterini? (Pareja grupo 5 no se quienes se encargan) (Recopilacion de info+ maquetación).

Grupo 6 : Miguel + Luis ( Recopilación y unificación de grafismo, es decir homogeneidad en la entrega).

Grupo 7 : Francisco + Alberto ( Recopilación + Maquetación).

Grupo 8 :  Panagiotis + Martha ( Recopilación + Maquetación).

·         OS LLEGARA AL CORREO LA PLANTILLA PARA LA PRESENTACIÓN .

·         ACORDAOS QUE CADA PUNTO SE ENCARGA DE SU IMPRESIÓN YA QUE SERIA UN CAOS, DE TODAS FORMAS PARA HOMOGENEIZAR LOS PANELES ESTARIA BIEN ¨Sancer¨

Ya que hace un 10% de descuento ( además se encuentra el mismo panel fotográfico A1 SATINADO ) .

Gracias por leer y animo yo que ha salido un buen curso vamos a acabarlo como se merece J. 

Contacto : 

David  Nº telef. 660044669 ( Line, Whatsapp,Facebook)   -  charla al momento.

EMAIL : david.garcia@alumno.ucjc.edu

Jose : 647039096 ( Whatsapp,facebook) 

Email :  90joseruiz@gmail.com

P/D -> Sin hacer bromitas ¬¬ jaja