This was the group part of the project where we worked as a group of four to complete the chosen city which was my city. Before starting to make the city model, we had a last minute decision on combining all the cities together as one metropolitan city. This was a great shock to us as it was the first time being introduced to this type of presentation method. Previously, we were never notified on this and there was no senior's work which had this sort of presentation method.

However, although this was something new, it turned out to be something really great and presentable on presentation day. From this combination, I have realized the importance of having someone with great leadership skills incharged of this part. Although I was not directly involved in planning or making decisions for the city, I had noticed how the organizing team worked and interacted with each group leader in order to work things out. Even though it was difficult in the beginning, the organizing team managed to help arrange and standardize most of the things in order to make it seem like an actual metropolitan city.

As for our own group work, it is also important to continue researching in order to get ideas on how to build or make models. Research does not end after information is gathered, it continues for us to be able to develop ideas. Ideas does not just pop out from thin air, it also requires sufficient research and information gathering. In our case, we had to search for methods to make a realistic looking cave from the internet in order to make a cave solid and strong yet realistic looking for our city. After reading articles and looking for tutorials, we have managed to confirm on the materials we plan on using. This is not only an efficient way of working, it also saves time because we would not need to redo if anything occured to the model such as a weak structure which will collapse.

While building the city model, it is important to have conversation together so that we understand what each of us are doing. By doing so, arguments and misunderstandings will be minimized because of sufficient conversation. From this, it is easier to determine problems and overcome them as a group by brainstorming together. This way, it would be easier to discuss about methods to resolve the encountered issues.

Other than that, from building the city model, I have understood the actual meaning of city planning. This project is to let oursevles have a breakthrough so that we understand that this city model is not about its aesthetic value or beauty. It is to introduce us to the importance of understanding a city well in order to make changes and improvements. By doing so, we will be able to identify areas and zones which suite the city so that the citizens living there will be able to conveniently travel around from work to school to home to leisure, etc.

This project has taught me to have a lot of patience while planning becaus enot everything gets to be done in a single day. We need time to have progress, explain the progress to others and listen to their feedback, comments or criticism. Then, we will have to accept the criticism and improve on our work in order to have a better outcome. Finally, we have to build the physical model which will have its own problems such as material shortage, poor workmanship and others.

In short, this project has not only taught me to do proper planning for cities, but has also taught me valuable lessons such as information analysis and coming up with applications in life or a better solution to it. These lessons can be applied in future while working on other projects or our future architecture life.