Week 7 – Reframing the Structure
A week of returning to the bones of the project, reworking spatial structure in response to critique and learning how to let feedback reshape intention.
Letting critique re-enter the work as a constructive force.
This week began with feedback from Mohamad on my zoning plan, which prompted a careful re-reading of the spatial logic I had been working with. His comments encouraged me to clarify boundaries between different types of spaces and to strengthen the relationship between zones rather than treating them as isolated fields. Roo’s feedback was more affirming, particularly around the overall direction and ambition of the project, which helped me feel confident in continuing along the same conceptual line while refining its articulation. Together, this feedback shifted my focus from generating new ideas to deepening and sharpening what was already there.
Learning to hold multiple logics together without flattening them.
Alongside my individual work, I spent time merging the group’s design codes into a single coherent document. This required negotiation, editing and a lot of careful reading to ensure that different voices, priorities and terminologies could coexist without becoming contradictory or vague. It was less about compromise and more about translation, finding shared language and structure that could hold multiple intentions at once. This process made me more attentive to how frameworks are written as well as designed, and how clarity often emerges through careful curation rather than invention.
Returning to structure as a way of stabilising the project.
Much of this week felt like a return to fundamentals, zoning, hierarchy and relationship rather than surface or detail. There was something stabilising about working at this level again, as it allowed me to re-anchor the project after several weeks of more speculative exploration. Although not particularly visually exciting, this work felt important in ensuring that the project had a coherent spatial logic capable of supporting later development.
We also went on a site visit.
Reflection
This week reminded me that refinement is not regression. Returning to structure, zoning and frameworks did not weaken the project but clarified it. Feedback became less something to defend against and more something to work with, helping me understand the project as a flexible system rather than a fixed proposition.