Project Update

No time to write but enough time to show you a quick rendering of what I'm woking on....
Think 'Chisto and Jeanne Claude' versus architecture.

Already?

I started to clean out my desk today in preparation for Summer break. Lots of debris managed to bury itself under the organized chaos that is studio. I had a review yesterday of my visual communications work - a class based solely on representation and experimentation with the presentation of visual information. My site Engineering class is done. My History paper is due on Monday and the big final presentation is spread over the 24th and the 25th. That gives me 11 days of total hell.
I can't believe it's been a year. It feels like ten years and only a few weeks at the same time. I still have no idea exactly what architecture is but I know I want to find out exactly what architecture is to me.

Humor

In response to recent 'episodes' of hopeless despair [see previous posts] I have decided to have some fun. I'm going to create a really weird student project. Architecturally this well known genre generally consist of projects completely devoid realistic human interaction, structural considerations, or any other type of rational quality that my parents brilliantly embedded within me while growing up.
To hell with reason! Be gone sane thoughts! Research be damned! It's time to make the building I've never even thought of!!! Maybe it'll fly? Why not. It's not like there's a budget or anything.

I know you're all bugging me for examples of stuff I'm doing so....
Maybe this?

Answers

They're just not here. I have absolutely no answers for this project. I just can't get into it. I'm so goddamned frustrated with this project. I keeping researching hoping something, some sort of an answer will appear. Tidal charts. Erosion systems. Soil analysis. Historical Photos. Cultural history of the site. Other precedents around the world. Stormwater filtration systems. Large-Span steel structures. Core samples. Satellite radar data. It all seems so arbitrary and my interest in this project has totally vanished. I'm tearing my hair out and getting nowhere. Someone told me I'm thinking about it way too much, I should just choose something and stick with it.
I just can't do it. I keep looking for something - the one thing that'll make all of this stuff piled on my desk make any sense. All I see is a pile of crap that is moments away from being tossed in the rubbish. I'm so tired of producing garbage. I'm surrounded in the studio by 40 students all working on the same project and I don't like any of their work.
I just can't get started on this project. The 20 page History papers are easy to do. The site Engineering class has been a breeze. But when it comes to studio I am......lost. I have a mountain of work I should have done for a review on Monday, but don't have anything because I can't create a project I believe in.

I don't even know what I believe in.

[The picture above is from a European Space Agency Remote Sensing satellite and it is a radar image of stormwater runoff plumes from the LA and San Gabriel Rivers into the LA and Long Beach Harbors]