Posted on 05.11.07

50 workdays since my first count, I’ve felt things transform over the weeks.

I’m too tired to write excessively, but I can’t deny the urge in me to tell about this fantastic day.

50 workdays ago, I was still setting start with my museum, my graduation project, I was still entering the hectic world of watercolor (and Acrylic), I was still ignoring my 3DS Max modelling practice, and, I knew nothing about Newton’s laws.

50 workdays later, I’m outstandingly optimistic, the museum is going pretty well, although, I’m remarkably late (as usual). Watercolor is doing great, a totally different experience! 3DS Max is doing great as well, and I know the relationship between Velocity and Initial Velocity by heart.

But, the inspiring bit of this day was none of the above, it was another search of insipration. I was on my way to drop my friend off when I suggested we go look for a villa my respective instrcutor Mr. Thaer has designed (for those of you in Sharjah, other than the one in Sharqan), and so we went. It was very quiet, I didn’t have my ‘cool’ driving glasses with me so I was driving rather slowly, it was dark too, so it was like searching for a needle in a stack of hay, in a dark hut, only that needle was a piece of art; it was worth the search. We started discussing the 5 years we’ve spent in that school, what courses were worthwhile, what courses were disasterous, we ended up concluding to the fact that a number of the courses we’ve studied were just ‘Junk Credit’, I think I counted something around 7 ‘Major’ courses, wasted. That is a lot!

On the other hand, we’ve had a handful of great instructors, I think only a couple of them read me here, if they ever do, thank you Mr. Yousef, you’ve been really really generous to me, and I’d like to point out the fact that he didn’t accept a penny for having me as an apprentice in his studio! Thank you Mr. Farouq, Mrs. harpreet, Mrs. Sahar, and again, Mr. Thaer.

After a good hour of search, its white plaster walls were embracing us from a distance, in the night, I felt my blood rushing. Pure white, outstanding articulation of mass, I’d say it’s a true translation of modernist principles, the monochrome quality of architecture hence the white color, a Meier signature grid that Thaer is fond of: “Such geometry and masses need a grid to get them into order”. The slick details and openings, It’s as good as it sounds. We couldn’t take pictures because it’s owned by a judge and I wouldn’t even take the risk! What a shame, really, I think such pieces of art shouldn’t be that low profile! I’ll try asking him for photos of it, maybe I could write about it on enKlosure, along with the villa in Sharqan.

A corner of the villa in Sharqan

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