After starting my journey at university, I thought it would be the same as all the previous schools and examinations, but I soon realise that it is far from being the same. Being a student from the science stream, architecture is very different from what I thought. To me, science is very straight forward because a scientific fact will never change, however architecture includes a very broad range of fields and how it all comes together depends on the architects. The most difficult part for me is the artistic part of it, being a very scientific person it was a struggle to get through the first semester in year one as the assignments were very abstract.
While design is never a straight forward process, a broad range of knowledge is needed to better address the different problems presented by the site and the needs of the client. Reading helps to increase our knowledge and understanding of the different fields, such as medicine, maths, physics and psychology, and only through continuous investigations that we can merge the different disciplines together and come to a solution that best address the problem.
Although I did not do well in the first semester, I realise that there are so much more that I need to learn and it was a very interesting learning process that is completely different from the text book memorising method that I used to adopt. There is a saying that 'when there is a will, there is a way', there are so much more that I need to learn and it is my goal to work harder from now on to better equip myself and hopefully be a better architect in the future.
