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I’ve been an architect for 5 years now. I decided to take my past work and bring it all up to the level I believe it should be to represent me as the designer am now. And I mean that not just in a technical sense, but in a conceptual sense as well. A lot of the projects I did in my corporate design job don’t represent me for two reasons. First, they were often of urban mega-scale, and thus involved hundreds of people of which I was a small part, usually the team responsible for making the building work spatially, visually, and conceptually. My control over the outcome was limited, although each contributed to my growth and in the project appendixes you can see exactly what I did on each project. Secondly, the clients and the projects themselves were, understandably, not ideal and existing in circumstances that did not give proper weight to the conceptual, aesthetic, and experiential aspects of the project, always in favor of the economic ones.
While I believe in most cases we did a good job within the given parameters, I still felt the need to explore what could have been, if the world allowed for more focus on more important, deeper aspects of the projects at large. In general I kept the prompt in tact for each project, only modified strange parameters coming from corporate or government branding, as well as budget constraints (in any case, we know that investing more upfront in sustainble aspects of a building will save so much more money in the long term). Then I evolved the original design under the new parameters into something that I think is a wholesale improvement from the original design.