Hello all, this is my last blog post for this semester, I can't believe its already over. Here are my thesis prep presentation and book. I will be continuing this blog next semester to continue documenting my thesis progress. I will probably post a few blogs over break, on Mondays and Thursdays, as I will be doing some thesis work.

My review on yesterday went well, I thought. There were some critiques with my presentation, I thought I would leave out labels and legends as I would be there to explain what the diagrams were, but I was told to keep them in. The critics appreciated the fact that I got so specific and was able to have an outline for next semester, but now that I am at this level I should present everything through the lens of daylighting. The way I present my project should match the nature of the project. Since I am planning on designing a dynamic facade that is extremely changeable, my presentation has to show that, as of now it is very homogeneous and static. A few suggestions of how I might do this were to drop the diagrams, do and show different experiments on how daylighting works, show advanced computational models and daylighting studies, and have more real data showing what I want to show. Over the break I am going to read all I can about different studies on daylighting and see what programs I will be able to use to do daylight studies. Two people I will have to look into are Victor Olgyay and John Carmody, both have done extensive research regarding daylighting.

I have all my diagrams done in my thesis book. All I have left to do is small things, lining up different diagrams, making sure everything is the right colors and line weights, and adding more text and placing myself in the discourse. After that is done it is just printing, binding, and preparing for my review on Wednesday.

Sorry for the late post. My Thesis book is pretty much done, I've updated all my existing diagrams and synchronized the color scheme, font, and layout across the entire book. I say it is pretty much done, because while it could be complete right now, there are still some diagrams that I want to add to it. Tomorrow I am meeting with my thesis adviser for the last time before my final review on my book. Hopefully tomorrow everything will be green-lit and I can print and bind my book. (The pictures in the linked book are a bit odd, it might have happened when optimizing the PDF.)

Today I've found out when my thesis book is due and when my final book review is next week. A digital version of my thesis book is due On Wednesday December 4th at midnight and physical copies are due Thursday December 5; my review is on Wednesday December 11th. All I have left to do for my book is adding more text and making several small changes.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my US viewers! Unfortunately I didn't get as far as I wanted to in my thesis book. I did get pretty far though, I just have a few more diagrams and some text to add in, then it is just minor changes. I have my next and final meeting with my thesis adviser a week from Friday, by then I will have my entire book complete. So right now it is just another week!

For today I have been working on fixing my existing diagrams and making new one, following the list I talked about last time. I have a plan to cross off three things off the list, and that should get me to finish all the major things until Thanksgiving; it helps that I'm off from class this week, so I have more time to work on them. My book is almost there; right now it is just the final stretch. One of the new things that I included in my thesis book is a basic week by week schedule for next semester, so I know what I want to produce and have at the end of thesis. Right now it is looking like a new dynamic facade that influences the interior spaces and responds to both environmental and employee conditions and specifications. For now though, it is just to get this book as complete and well-presented that I can in the remaining few weeks.

Today I talked to my thesis adviser today before Thanksgiving break. There are several things that I have to work on in my thesis book. Things that I have to work on are: quantifying my design and performance criteria, finish my environmental data diagrams and do environmental diagrams for my specific floor plate, reorganize my context pages, fix some of the existing diagrams, make my tree and food web diagrams relate more to an office, start designing my dynamic facade and see how it affects the space, and lastly outline my what I am going to work on next semester to finish my thesis. Doing all that will complete my thesis book, then I just have to add page numbers, make everything refer to my color scheme, and figure out how to bind it.