Kara Cristaldi

To simply say this project is ordinary would be unfair. Then again Kara had not made this an opportune project for spatial expression, or differentiation. As a building that has all the necessary functions and one that works, it would suffice to say the project has been developed to a reasonable level of resolution or detail. However it needs to be said Kara’s work lacks fire, it lacks personality or character, simply due to the fact that she had not taken an artistic position, or decide on an art direction for the Project. His would have added some “spirit” to the work.

The project may not be so memorable as a result of Kara’s discretion, or lack of it. An entrance is grand in scale, but may be quite ordinary in design, can be unfortunate. Kara’s starting point of making a series of connecting gallery-classroom spaces has turned out to become a building that is very large, and lacking intensity somehow. No intensity because the entire building is seen to be flat, even and monotonous. Kara could easily have made the entrance more “intense” or that one of the floors take on a “feature”, whatever. The stairs and ramps idea that she started out with quite simply disappeared, and became service cores, whereas in fact they are key elements that make up her project initially. Her project is not aggressive enough, needs personality. Kara indeed needs to put herself into the project a bit more.