First Year Student Projects at Edinburgh School of Architecture, Architectural Education, Drawings, Building Design
First Year Student Projects at Edinburgh School of Architecture
First Year Architectural Education Work Progress – by Daniel Lomholt-Welch, Scotland
28 Jul 2018
First Year Student Projects at Edinburgh School of Architecture
e-architect are following the progress of architecture student, Daniel Lomholt-Welch during his degree studies at Edinburgh University.
The first semester we worked on two projects, the first being ?Material World?, and the second ?Strangely Familiar?.
Project 1

The first project of the semester involved a series of four brief, one-week projects, each centred on using different materials. Each material has different qualities and will create different atmospheres. They also require very different methods of construction. This all contributes to requiring a different way of designing a building depending on the materials that one uses to do so. Brick, timber, stone and concrete are four extremely diverse, and common building materials. Different parts of the world use a variety of different materials, often depending on the resources available, and the climate of the project. Practices which are common in the use of one material may not be used at all with other materials. For example, a timber frame is a common method of building with wood, however a stone frame would be totally inplausible and structurally unstable. The projects ...