Sunday, 18 October 2009

Action Plan

Skills Assessment:
  • Drawing: needs improvement on accuracy, speed and style? especially regarding drawing of facades and perspectives. Can be achieved through practice on whilst developing design projects.
  • Sketching: needs improving in style and depiction of life. Practice is required, can be done as part of design work as well as in spare time.
  • Handwriting: Generally needs improvement also need to learn to write in varying fonts. Mainly can be achieved through exercises in free time as well as on design drawings.
  • Computer Skills: Typing and Photoshop are ok and will be maintained through continuous use. AutoCAD and 3D studio need practice and improvement, which can be achieved by using them along side drawings during design process. Need to relearn ArchiCAD and Revit and practice on them, possibly select preferred program to continue practicing because of time constraints.
  • Reading: Skills are Fine just need to find more time to read.
  • Research: needs to be more efficient and use more Books and journals with less reliance on the internet, also need to learn to pick relevant sources with more ease. This will be achieved through practice whilst researching dissertation and Tech. Case study.
  • Time Management: BiG problem with time management and making best use of my time. I will need to make a weekly timetable and stick to it as much as possible, it will need to take into account uni work, deadlines, free time and social/living requirements.