David's Oyster Farm

The David's Oyster Farm has been in operation for 3 weeks. The initial brief was to rejuvenate the relatively unknown Duxton Plain Park in the Tanjong Pagar Area, which would end in each of the 13 studio members designing a medium size building on seperate sites along the linear park. However, on a whim, David Robson, the studio head (hence the name of the studio), decided to extend the site to link the park all the way to the Singapore River through Pearl's Hill (which gave him the idea of calling our individual projects pearls on a necklace and hence the oyster farm reference). This in effect doubled the whole site area. Not that we are complaining too much, except that the newly added areas are full of contours with buildings set into them.

So we spent practically the whole of last week making the 1.8m long site model. A major accomplishment and quite beautiful, if I dare say, considering all we've done since school started were several case studies and a disastrous site analysis which we got a big dressing down for today. Looks like the whole weekend will be spent on redoing the analysis and hopefully it will be up to his standard.

Oh well, surely things can only get better.