Reflection - Tutorial Feedback

Tutorial Feedback

• Continue the exploring exercise that i did on corridor design, and this time look into the connection between land and water

• Master plan - when circling the nodes, don't do a rough area of the condition but go into details and look for gaps between conditions; thats where opportunities lies 

• Make sure all the processes are documented especially the site selecting

Reflection - Week 4 Tutorial Activities

Community Change, what is it?

Personally, I think it means how the value, lifestyle, or even physical things like building changed when you compare current to the past of the community.


Temporary and Impending

Things don't last forever, even architectures.  A building last maybe 10 years and people will find its function, aesthetic or material outdated and either renovate it or demolish it.  And also it made me think of a community, how it is always changing depends on the environments.


Adaptive and Transitory

To me, a community is a group of people adapting to the environment consistently and evolving, which result in its own characteristic, culture and unique lifestyle. 


Typology Exercise

We were ask to draw 2 pictures that when you first think of Gowanus, and we group them together by typology.  And this gives us a insight of other's perspective of what Gowanus is about, how they view Gowanus and what the area is known for.

Other things to think about

• Creative industry sites, workshops, art galleries, performance services
• Sport and active leisure
• Play
• Gardening and horticulture 

Reflection - Week 3 Lecture - Urban Informatics by Prof. Marcus Foth

Digital City and Physical City
The building itself is important, but the system inside the building is also important

Smart City

• Smart Building
• Smart Neighbourhood

Prof. Marcus Foth talked about the digital infrastructure of the city and how important it is.  I found his lecture really inspiring especially when he share the idea about "Smart Citizen"; take engagement to the citizen and let them participate with the city, have a say in the city they live in.  This was achieved by digital devices that allows citizen to comment, feedback and get them to involve in important events.

The idea of listening to the voice of communities and encourage then to participate with the developing of the city is quite fascinating, and how this idea can be used on our project.  The brief stated clearly that we have to take the stakeholders' needs and wants into consideration, and also help them develop in the future.  

I will put this idea aside for now and come back later down the project, I can feel that there is something interesting here and can be adapted into my design later on.

Reference
http://blog.getsatisfaction.com/2013/06/11/the-customer-company-revolution-started-a-long-time-ago/
Powerpoint side by Prof. Marcus Foth

Reflection - Week 2 Lecture - Strategic New York by Dr. Phil Crowther

"Strategy is not a design project, but a system generating design projects" - LAE, 2009

Master Planning

• Holistic Plan
• Blueprint
• Zonging
• Controlling and Limiting

Strategic Planning

• Framework
• Infrastructure
• Planning of the parts
• enabling & Generating

Grid of New York

This part of was really interesting, the grid of New York is a bit smaller (80m x 60m) compare to Brisbane.  And it is a strategic to keep streets together by allowing pass through a building from street to another street, and also increase the public space of the city (privately owned).  The street grid heavily influenced the development of New York.

New York / Amsterdam 2040 Glimpses

Dr. Phil Crowther also showed us couple of examples of project relating to the exhibition.  The project and the idea behind it was very interesting and inspiring, and to me, quite bold,  I guess sometime i just have to step out of my comfort zone and see where it will take me.

One project really captured my eyes is the High Lane Competition, and the winning project is amazing:

• It not addressed the requirement of the competition, but also the city
• A good design can actually 'revive' the area; the cost of apartments around the project raised
• New ways to walk around the city, new circulation
• The agriculture approach was unique

Reference
http://marimarisu.tumblr.com/page/5
Powerpoint slide by Dr. Phil Crowther