RR #5 Monte Alban

BP 5:Frozen Music Poem

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 There once was a house with no ceiling
 The structure inside had no feeling
 Inside, everything had no color
 And nothing  in order
 But it looked so appealing

Anthropology of space: An organizing Model Reaction.

     In his article, Hall, focuses on how the people react and/or behave in different spaces. He starts this chapter by defining space. He defines Space as what one sees, and also explains another factor about space, which is how mental images of different places assimilates throughout people's lifetime. Hall also talks about the level of infra-cultural of humans which is how behavior about man's biological pass. Hall explains that architects must think about the infra-cultural level to avoid problems from the past. One of the examples he gives is the Black Death, he talks about how that events tells designers and architects the effects of crowded cities and that you should think about the size of the space you are designing. In his essay, Hall, also talks about the relationship of fixed-feature space, which is a way to  organize activities of people. He talks about how different rooms serve as a fixed-feature space, because every room, especially in America, has its own purpose. Even if the space doesn't have walls you can tell that an imaginary lines divides two spaces, like the living room and kitchen. Hall also talked about the relationship of the fixed-feature space to the personality of people. In one of his interviews he is talking to a women and says the following: "If any of the men who designed this kitchen had ever worked in it, they wouldn't have done it this way" in other word she is trying to say that men (which are probably architects) did not design the space in the kitchen correctly in relationship to the women. I believe is true sometimes you look in the kitchen and women are always asking family members to hand them something like on the other side of the room or even on the top shelve. When you observe such events, I personally thing of the way designers can design the space in the kitchen better so that women can do their chores in a pleasant way. Sometimes designers do not think about the environment and spaces people would live on and that is one of the main things Hall talks about in his essay. Hall wants designers to think about the people and the relationship of buildings and people.

3 Precedents: Public, Social, and Ritual space.

For a public space, one of the things I have as a precedent is a waterfall in the middle of the city.

The social place that I chose was the city. One of the things we can do on the cities is use the roofs of skyscrapers to build social places. As you can see on the picture there are a lot of things that can be build so that people can have a great time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BP 4: Commodity, Firmness, and Delight

On Friday 4, 2011 we had a field trip around UNCG campus and we were looking at different buildings trying to find the three elements of architecture commodity, firmness, and delight. One of the buildings i will focus on is the Elliot University Center (EUC).

Commodity

The EUC is a clear example of commodity. The EUC is used by all students, faculty, and staff and this shows that this building is well made for everyone to have a pleasant time. Students use this building to either study, eat, or just relax. One of the things students look for when they first come to college, specially freshman, is this sense of freedom and I believe the EUC is able to do this. One of the ways this building projects freedom is the size and the space inside the building. When you first walk into this building you walk in the middle of 8 massive columns and this can symbolize a structure that is big enough for everyone to enjoy and feel free. The inside of the EUC you also can see a giant circle in the middle of the floor and stairs going up and down in a circular way. 

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The stairs are used to create commodity since their are two different stairs on both sides of this imaginary cylinder as you can see on the picture above. Over all the building is a great place of commodity because it makes the students and teachers feel comfortable in a big space.

Firmness

Looking at the building I cannot say that the building is well done because otherwise it would not be standing up. However, I can say that the thick columns and walls create make the building look strong and safe. From the outside of the building it seem that the architects and designers who built this building really thought about the amount of students and other people who will enter this building since there are two entrances and at least three set of doors on each side of the building.

http://web.uncg.edu/saf/capital/?go=euc

Delight

I'm going to confess that when I first step into the EUC I felt really amuse when i saw the architecture of the building and the different areas of the building. I felt satisfied when I saw the bookstore on one side and the food court on the other side right when I stepped into the building. Then you keep walking and you see a Starbucks and a store on the opposite side and you become even more satisfied, at least that's what I felt like. The fact that the EUC has almost anything a student needs is very delightful to the students.

Color Week

Reading Response #3 for History of Theory and Design