It’s been a long road up to this point, the final review of my project. I was able to manage my time so that I accomplished everything I set out to do for my final boards– a fact that was not missed by my reviewers. My graphics received high praise from reviewers and passers-by alike, […] […]
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To say the end of the term was extremely difficult for me would be a bit of an understatement. After presenting what I thought would be my final design, I got the more of the same critiques that I’ve been getting all term: I need to connect with the rest of the site; I need […] […] After Wednesday’s pin-up, and in the wake of my recent divorce, I’ve found it necessary to refocus my design efforts before I move on. So: I am designing a school for environment as integrated context for learning (EIC). With the building form and site design, I aim to reexamine the relationship between in- and outdoors. More simply, […] […] . We need a divorce. A little one. We committed too soon. We were young. Well, at any rate, you were. You weren’t ready to provide me with what I need in a design. It isn’t good enough that you have a beautiful massing and interesting exterior spaces. I need a design that can pull its weight. […] […] These first few weeks of design have been very interesting in terms of my evolving design process (and it is always evolving, isn’t it?) Typically, I do not use models to design. I am an incredibly slow model builder, to the point that by the time I get something built, my mind has already moved on […] […] Eric Strauss gave a talk at Boston College entitled “Urban Ecology: A New Science for Revitalizing America’s Cities.” Among other things, he illuminates important ties between urban ecology and social equity. The quality and character of the urban landscape is how people view nature. If most people are living in cities and most young people are […] […] At the heart of urban ecology is the idea (which is strangely new to Western civilization) that the species homo sapien is, like every other organism in the universe, part of an ecosystem. As human beings, we are fantastic competitors. We have learned to out-compete almost every other species for food, land, water, and other resources; […] […] Reflections on Urban Ecology after reading the article “Urban Natural Areas” by Mark Griswold Wilson and Emily Roth in Restoring the Pacific Northwest. . I admit it. I don’t like cities. I never have. To me, cities were far to filled with people and far too lacking in nature. I feel claustrophobic in an environment where everything I […] […] After taking three weeks away from this project over the winter holidays, it’s time to jump back in– this time into the design side. It has been a bit of a struggle to switch my thinking from research to design. During the last term, research was almost this “safe zone” where I simply explored various relevant– […] […] |
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