Perry Hammond - Week Ten

Crazy to think this was my tenth week at MPS already. I have gotten to work on a lot of different projects and gained great experience in what has seemed like a short time. This week, I worked on the Florence - Darlington Technical College's Culinary school in Lake City, SC. I have really enjoyed working on this project. I think it would have been neat to be involved in the pre-design and schematic stages on this project because I think highly of the design and values behind it. One major lesson that I learned this week is that angles are hard. In a building, you cannot have just one non-perpendicular angle - if there is one there are many. And any odd angle makes drawing, modeling, and sometimes understanding the building that much more challenging. In this FDTC project, a central corridor cuts through the building at an uneven, non-perpendicular angle. And it tapers. Needless to say, this is a challenge. However, in my opinion this extra effort is highly justified due to the power space and gesture that the central corridor establishes. In school, it can be easy to create some crazy, gravity defying forms. But something I learned early on in the profession is that any little complication makes thing exponentially more challenging and pushes you quickly towards the line of feasibility. It is inspiring to see professionals at MPS taking on these risks in rational but powerful, exciting

ways.