Hi and welcome to my channel! For those who don't know, my name is Maryna Shapoval. I am studying Architectural technology at the Old Montreal College. I completed my second year, and I will soon start my third which is my final year. In this program we are taught how to make new buildings from a simple conception to its realization on a construction site.

Nobody wants to create a building that no one likes, right? I certainly don't.

I have only been studying architecture for two years, and I may not know everything yet, but I am willing to improve.

Each session, we have courses that teach us new things about creating buildings. On the main creation class, the 'Conception of projects', I got a 91% as my final grade, so I might have a few working tips to share with you.

In this video, I will show how to solve a problem that every architectural technician had at least once.

The solution that I will present to you will be simple, but very effective.

At the start of a project, after reviewing the client's needs and looking through the municipal and country building regulations, every architectural technician starts to think about how their building should look like. Sometimes, you get an idea immediately, but frequently you are not so sure about what exactly you want to do.

Not being able to find inspiration in the first phase of a project may lead to not so realistic ideas in the future phases. You may fall behind on the schedule of the project.

For example, you are an architectural technician who needs to build, with your team, a new university that specializes in science. Your client is the government accompanied by the science department of another university. They want the building to be close to the nature and to be different from other buildings by its form. They gave you and your team a relatively big budget. Also, let's say that the site of the future building is in North America, in the United States for example.

It may be stressful to be part in such a big project with a multitude of possibilities for the looks of your building, but fear not, this problem seems big only at first sight. I will show you how you can get realistic inspirations for your future projects.

First, open your browser. I will use Chrome since I am familiar with it the most. Type ArchDaily in the address bar, or you can write the full URL of the site. If you chose the first option, click the first link. You should see this page.

In the top right corner, you can 'sign in' or 'log in' to be able to receive news about projects and to be able to save and organize the projects that you liked or found useful. Under the logo, you can tap on different buttons of the navigation menu. You can scroll down to see new projects. On the bottom of the page, you can find some icons of the site's partners and a footer menu with the site's policies. If you leave the main page, you can always return to it by clicking on the logo in the top left corner.

Now, let's look at the solution for the problem I mentioned earlier. You need to click on the 'Projects' button on the navigation menu at the top of the screen. Then, click on the 'Categories' button on the smaller navigation menu. Now, you can choose what type of buildings you are interested in. In our example, we are building a university, so we move the cursor to the 'Educational Achitecture' button. It lets us see options of education buildings, we click on 'University'. Now, here in the smaller navigation menu, we can choose the country so the inspirations will look adequate in our context. To respect the client's demand to be closer to nature, we can choose the color green. We can choose the material, the architects and manufacturers that we like and the year. For example, we choose steel as our material and the year of 2008. Then, we choose the building we like. 'ArchDaily' gives us information about the building through text and photos. We can look at them right now. Many photos include actual plans, elevations and sections of the building which helps to understand the real proportions and technical aspects. You can look through other projects to inspire yourself for your own project.

In conclusion, as I promised, I demonstrated how, with the site ArchDaily, you can find realistic inspirations that align perfectly with which type of building you might need to create.

I hope that this video was useful to you. Thank you for watching and don't forget to like this video and consider writing a comment. Bye-bye!

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