Best of intentions just won't cut it/ what have you done for us lately?

We have begun the project, My Sister’s House by doing several charrettes and smaller portions of the project. These “mini” portions include, a light study of the site, a researched book of architects, designers, and artists, a sketchy model of the building, and meaningful moment in the building from our sketchy model, a study of good, bad, and ugly materials, an exterior model of the building, and a refined sketchy model. All of these charrettes have helped our group to develop further into the project and to gain knowledge of what we are trying to convey in our overall design.
In the light study we individually designed a light “machine” to see how the light on the site played on the device we created. This helped us to better understand how we would incorporate light into or design. Our research of different designers, architects, and artists gave us ideas and thoughts about a path to take on our future designs. The sketchy model showed us a general layout and direction for us to go off of in our next designs. We took a closer look at the model in a “moment” in the model. This “moment” we created was an intersection that we found meaningful in the overall design. This helped us to develop details about the space and how different spaces would work together as a cohesive design. In the materials study we learned what materials could be used where. This also allowed us to see what certain materials would be able to do. While developing the exterior we began to tie in all the previous charrettes and studies to decide where the windows should go and how the building would ultimately be designed on the outside. In doing this we looked back to the research on the architect we had studied and the ideas and works of the designers and artists. In our refined sketchy model, we did this same thing, by changing a few things based on our findings.
Overall we started off with small pieces that joined into a whole in the project. The charrettes and studies we did in the beginning are helping to develop our ideas in the larger parts of the project like the exterior and the layout of the interior. We are incorporating our research findings and our study findings into one idea so that are design becomes a cohesive design instead of a plethora of ideas all jumbled into one.