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<\/a><\/p>\nI began the week by working on the same school scheme that I had\u00a0 been involved with on my previous visit to the practice to see\u00a0the mentor I have been paired with\u00a0on the student mentoring scheme. It was interesting to see how the\u00a0 scheme had developed and I was quite pleased that the areas I had been part of\u00a0 developing were working well within the overall scheme. Instead of developing\u00a0 the school further, I was given the task of planning out a small area of the\u00a0 site which was originally a school car park and playground space- the proposed\u00a0 area is due to become a housing estate of 15 units. I drew up the sketch scheme\u00a0 in CAD, a similar task to the one I did during my first visit.\u00a0 This task took several hours as various\u00a0 factors needed to be resolved.<\/p>\n
Later in the week I moved onto a\u00a0 different housing project and took part in amending plans and elevation\u00a0 drawings, this project was due to meet a deadline on Friday so it was\u00a0 imperative that I worked efficiently and made use of the time wisely so that I\u00a0 was not hindering the development of the scheme by being slow. I feel that this\u00a0 experience was very important and I was able to put into context the importance\u00a0 of design flare accompanied by efficiency and ability to clearly and\u00a0 effectively communicate to other team members. I had been fortunate to work with\u00a0 a part 1 student in her year in industry during this design process which was\u00a0 helpful and I gained many useful tips during this process. I also used my\u00a0 knowledge of Photoshop and other display software to help layout sheets to be\u00a0 viewed at a large scale as presentation devices.<\/p>\n
Large meetings were held throughout the\u00a0 week about the 2 projects I had been working with and further developments were\u00a0 made to both schemes, it was interesting to see the number of people required\u00a0 to be part of the process as I had not anticipated the importance of large\u00a0 meetings such as the ones held in these situations and have gained further\u00a0 understanding of the implication of time and money towards large scale\u00a0 developments of residential and educational developments.<\/p>\n
In addition to the design work, I\u00a0 participated in mass tea\/coffee making and A1 paper folding, both of which I\u00a0 am incredibly talented at!<\/p>\n
By the end of the week I was feeling part of the team and\u00a0 was glad I had participated in a full week of mentoring rather than one\u00a0 singular day as it gave me a fuller insight into the general process of\u00a0 development. I am looking forward to a site visit on my third visit and am\u00a0 hoping to the see the school developments later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Charlotte has just undertaken a week of work experience at a local architecture\u00a0practice in Hythe. The placement was offered to Charlotte after enrolling\u00a0on the RIBA … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[21340,26853,85916],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ksa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}