This week has been really inspiring. It started off being just a normal week where you come to work do what you need to do to get through the day and then leave for home again. Tuesday the same routine was followed but, from Wednesday onwards it was a different story.
Wednesday: My morning started awful, because I was half hour late for work and it was all thanks to the great service of metro-rail. Straight after our tea break at about 11h00 there was a fire drill and the whole building had to be evacuated. We had to walk down 12 flights of stairs which has my carves aching still.( I think it's a sign that I should start exercising ). But then someone arrived at the office that I never thought I would have the oppertunity of meeting. Mike Nightingale, the founder of Nightingale Associates an internationally established architecural firm, just being in the same room as him inspired me. At lunch time we had a office meeting where Mr. Nightingale gave us a presentation of a new design system he want's to apply to his offices all over the world, ours being one of them. The presentation was titled "THINK" and that was exactly what is was about. Thinking with all your senses when in the process of designing something. Thinking of how people react to a space, how they will feel, what they would see, smell, touch. It made me understand more what to do for my hub project, that we should be designing our structure with all those elements in mind. My day ended well eventhough I didn't expect it to.
On Thursday I had a lunch meeting with my mentor and I never expected it to help me so much, speaking to someone with all these years of experience can really be intimidating, but just picking his brain about certain things and him giving me advice on my project encourages me to do better and be better. After the meeting I had more confidence to start with my design process.
Today is really exciting, at 15h30 we having a cherette where all work is down and the whole office is participating in designing something, I am not sure what yet, because we only getting the brief at 15h30, but we get an hour and a half to design it and there will be voting to see which group came up with the best design. The winning team will win a free meal at Gourmet Burgers. How fun is that!!!!
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