I was a teaching assistant in Structural Systems classes for Architecture and Engineering students at Cornell University. The final semester of the required four studying Structural Systems is about application in which students both do actual calculations and dimensioning for their design project in their studio class, as well as a detailed case study of a "nonstandard" structure completed in the last ten years. The project that my fellow TA Danielle Marino chose was the Nardini Pavilion by Studio Fuksas. In an attempt to show students that working well opposed to working hard is actually what to aspire to, and that front-loading a project is much healthier than a mad dash, we planned our project in the Tuesday to Thursday gap between class sessions and executed it without difficulty before the next Tuesday class--where they would have the full semester.
We realized that we had a chance to be both precise and abstract, as the structural elements are all represented in great detail --double welded diagram ellipsoids, etc. --but the overall form of the piece was still a gestural representation. This was well received, as our model is to this day serving the job of BBQ behind the Dean's Office.