Thank you so much for this comment! I am an architecture student and am always TERRIFIED that my design will structurally fail. And being in a 3rd world country makes it worse. Whenever we make a concept sketch or model, teachers will ask us “so how are you planning to construct it?” No, I have no plans of constructing my second year design, but it’s a fair question I guess. But that the same teachers would never take a class on structure or suggest ways to build it. At times they would also say that my design is structurally okay but the construction would be expensive. So the answer? Use RCC frame with brick walls in all of your designs. Initially, I would just stick to my teachers’ nitpicks and make box-like apartment buildings. But now, in my final year, it has come to a point that I can’t gather the courage to design anything but cramped boxes. No use of steel, glass, polymers, concrete, etc etc. No curved walls, no two columns being more than 7m apart, no skyscrapers. Nothing unconventional is welcome, and the teachers keep wondering why traditional architecture was way better. It’s because we are not trying out anything new, but the generation and technology have changed. We need to experiment and analyse. Practically, no one can get the right design the first time, it takes time. But if we don’t try out new things we can never achieve anything.
Thanks a lot for you comment, at least this will help me get over my fear and try something different.
