4+4=....Charrette

On Monday our Individual groups were asked to participate in a charrette process that paired each of our individual groups with two other groups that had similar design layouts. Our group worked with two teams that had well thought out design ideas for each of their buildings, however bringing both their ideas and ours together based on materiality and similarities proved to be a tough challenge with the time allowed. The first group that our team worked with was team circuit. When going through the design process of combining our two buildings the idea of stacking and interlocking our two units shaped most of our ideas and the direction in which we wanted to handle the challenge of creating an eight story building. I felt like our groups worked well together and were able to make quick and reasonable decisions given the time frame that we had to work. Our group evenly divided up the work with two people working on the diagrams, statement, and sketches. The second group that we worked with was team evolve. I felt that this was our most challenging group to work with out of the two, since the main focus of the project was materiality, and none of ours were the same. While we were able to evenly distribute the work load and come to somewhat of a consensus of the group design. I found that there were certain things that the group was not willing to sacrifice in order to merge the two projects cohesively. While both our group and team evolve had good ideas I feel like our systems and designs would not be able to coincide as well as they would with team circuit to form a well designed combination of both teams.