Walking Downtown

I took a picture of this place downtown when I was looking for people to interview about the Community Video. It is a really closed space but it's has color, texture and it seems like there is a lot of space. Color does make a difference.

Housing and Community

People have different views of defining neighborhood and community. One says community is a network of social interaction and bonding. Cloyne Court Hotel is an example where people interact with each other where they share common interests and interact in some way. There are many aspects that go into a comprehensive plan that develop a community where people get affected from such as demographics, economic factors, land use and zoning, housing and neighborhood quality, infrastructure, government services, visual, cultural, environmental factors, recreation, visions, goals and objectives. Zoning process was an interesting model to understand each step as an owner would go through to change a plan of their house.
Neighborhood satisfaction is influenced by factors such as personal, physical, social, segregation and safety factors. The planned unit development (PUD) creates residential neighborhoods that can produce more profits for the developer and builder and they also provide better environment for the people. They mix residential development with commercial/retail property which expands the community. People also benefit for paying less in large house for less money. Neighborhood satisfaction is higher when residents believe their current neighborhood is an improvement. You could see that in the gated neighborhoods where people feel safer, there is more green space, and there is not much traffic route. People have different perspectives of a community and the developers are challenged to provide housing opportunities by the local regulations and satisfactory to those who live in them.

Wrapping up the ->Makeshift Shelter<-

Photos by: Stephanie Brooker

Photos by: Cassandra Gustafson

The Makeshift Shelter experience can challenge the body and mind and inform your design decisions. I will remember this project because it was hands-on into building it full-scale not just a model, it challenged me as a designer to consider different ways an idea would work and think about the next step to be done to that idea to develop the design from the concept. It challenged me how to organize the interior for a person with the specific activity one would be doing inside that shelter (studying) and to make the shelter strong enough to stand with the materials we had. This project made me aware that when we work in our individual projects sometimes we do not always have to go and buy stuff but we can recycle the materials from the previous projects.

Elevations

->Makeshift Shelter<-

Case study

In IARc 211 we did the case study #9 on the Entenza House located in Pacific Palisades, CA. This case study house was designed by Architects Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen in 1945. We studied this house in more detail and generated a final perspective.

SYTYCD 10

For the assigment 10 of " So you think you can ('t) draw?" we had to create a detail of something that is in our current studio project that is furniture, fixture or electrical element and i chose a cabinet (the one with the textured glass on the north wall) . The page format was 12" x 12". The content of our item had to interact with the background.