October 11, 2024
We’ve come to the end of “work experience season” with another 8 students from schools across our area. We’ve also just passed the threshold of 100 students overall!!
We know this is a valuable experience, which was further validated from a contact this summer from a former student from 2015, Will Barker. Will has now qualified as an “Arkitekt” in Denmark and let us know that “it was the best pre-Uni experience that I had” and that he “had such a great time, that it inspired me to study architecture at Uni. Nine years later, I am now a qualified arkitekt in Denmark!”
Will’s work is featured in the sample of the student work in the image grid. These date back to 2009 with 3D views produced in SketchUp with the transition to Revit adding Enscape in more recent years, although hand-drawing is still the start for all their designs, as it is ours. We particularly love it when students find the libraries within these programmes as they lead to some brilliantly irreverent results as you’ll see.
The work experience programme we run gives a taste of the world of work as well as specifically into architecture and landscape design. We’re always impressed by the speed with which students pick up the skills, working through hand drawing, research and multiple software programmes all in one week, as demonstrated by this example by Jago: 360° View | Student Credit | Jago
We’ve included one such result in the link below which was one of our landscape architecture projects. This was based on an existing school courtyard in need of some TLC. This brought together our specialism in education design with a space that the students identify with, understanding the constraints as well as the possibilities.
We’re excited for the next 100 students to join us, to teach us something from their standpoints and for us to be part of their journey.
