tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71133955153763696502024-02-06T18:53:17.469-08:00Arnold's OutburstsJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-38342804751113781862010-12-01T14:24:00.001-08:002010-12-01T14:24:22.384-08:0045<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Well, here we are the last day of class and I have somehow managed to cram all of my blogging in. The whole blogging thing has not been as bad as I thought it would be, except for pretty much doing them all in one night. But that one is all my fault. I do see now how this could be use to the landscape architecture field and others. I just wish that there were less that was required. I think I could have gotten about the same thing with less entries. Anywhoo, it’s over and who knows I may make a return to blog in the near future. I at least need to check up on my mates and see what they have found. And I’m out. </span></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-71954109533094652022010-11-30T22:55:00.001-08:002010-11-30T22:55:04.533-08:00A Day in the Life of Living on my Project Two<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The utopian lifestyle that will be created on the site formally known as Aiken village will not be paradise for everyone. However, for those who choose to live here the rewards will be numerous. Inhabitants will be given personal satisfaction to know that their daily lives reduce their carbon foot print on the Earth. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">“Early to bed, early to rise” will be the common routine living on this intentional community. The sunshine filtering through high windows will help to awaken students from their slumber. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The morning shower will get its warmth from water heated by the sun. Water that goes down the drain will be piped to a garden, where it can be cleaned, nurture plants and be used again to flush toilets in the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Next, everyone heads to the community kitchen for some breakfast. This meal is not always labor intensive, so most of the time, everyone is on their own for breakfast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next, it is off feed the animals. Starting with pets and then moving to the chickens, which will provide fresh eggs and occasional meat. Once everyone is feed it is off to class. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">After class, everyone will return to paradise to finish daily chores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gardens must be checked for weeds, pests and disease. If rain has been absent for a while, irrigation can provide water to the plants from water stored in rain barrels and cisterns. The constructed wetlands should occasionally be checked for debris or trash that may have made its way into the hydrologic system. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">In and around the buildings, private spaces will be offered so that tenets can have some alone time away from the group to relax, to talk on the phone or do some homework. These private spaces will be extremely important for everyone’s mental health and to help to avoid social conflict.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Supper time will be an important time because everyone will chip in to bring the meal to the table by using as much locally produced energy and products as possible. The energy used to light the kitchen and heat the oven will be from solar panels on the roofs. The produce on the plates will have been grown in the gardens on site. Leftovers from previous meals were used to make compost that nurtured the plants for the current meal. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">After supper is finished and the kitchen is cleaned, students can congregate in the large social space. There will be room for plenty of room for different activities such throwing a ball, playing music or relaxing by a fire.</span></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-53677295859155902782010-11-30T22:28:00.001-08:002010-12-01T14:17:10.076-08:00Support Drawings for Project Two<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These are the support drawings that were done to give some character to the master plan. Included are three perspectives that show how the community should look, two sections that show the spaces created between the buildings and an elevation that offers some insight to the thought behind tree selection and the general architecture of a building.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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I am very happy with the way that I turned out. I feel that I created some nice spaces, both residential and academic. I also included a site plan to put the enlarged plan in context and to show that I tried to incorporate all of the elements that were required for the project. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVdSXiU_RaJGVK-XqMoneakcnBsq6OE_L5-I-vVPH0Kev-C1sq8GMHcYMQqly3bObI_xXRcbeY-I6vTZMP-yQV9n2rMxK7bZv7vP8cmX3vYyrPBDShGgPA-yVYwYb-XLgzELSxBu9EABc/s1600/enlarged+plan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVdSXiU_RaJGVK-XqMoneakcnBsq6OE_L5-I-vVPH0Kev-C1sq8GMHcYMQqly3bObI_xXRcbeY-I6vTZMP-yQV9n2rMxK7bZv7vP8cmX3vYyrPBDShGgPA-yVYwYb-XLgzELSxBu9EABc/s320/enlarged+plan.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmDbRJy0ICfGIIeOEafs3Z13m0AujSGtNcm0yDW84fHGsY9pLBRC01qw-QkZXdSu1jlvH835pHBYNgyyEIrEO6KTb_7pcwO7wawntWW5L-S2vQjHWSLgHHbBLBgqD54cmwFZHnyjFEhls/s1600/site+plan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmDbRJy0ICfGIIeOEafs3Z13m0AujSGtNcm0yDW84fHGsY9pLBRC01qw-QkZXdSu1jlvH835pHBYNgyyEIrEO6KTb_7pcwO7wawntWW5L-S2vQjHWSLgHHbBLBgqD54cmwFZHnyjFEhls/s320/site+plan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-66054212544543165182010-11-30T22:23:00.000-08:002010-12-01T11:38:37.969-08:00Still working in Class<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Day three of working in class raised the difficulty level. Or maybe I just had a bad day. The previous class we were to refine our concept drawings adding housing layouts and do two sections of our site. On third day we were to further refine our plans by adding details. For some reason I had a lot of problem committing to details. I enjoy this pace because it speeds up the design process and we are able to produce more, but if you have a bad day or you brain refuses to cooperate it really puts you in a corner. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjl5BZX0PLA132ozC5pgFRVayjh5D7qXOpCMBRb3GZU2QeAjJ-LwrGOAJXvUpkLd2yBqBVqTtJ3emdK_2DepTK6TNUSQR5Kk-iNLrfG9O8mBovnwo0LCsfIGi1MUGaF73Kg3ovVyluWhc/s1600/concept+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjl5BZX0PLA132ozC5pgFRVayjh5D7qXOpCMBRb3GZU2QeAjJ-LwrGOAJXvUpkLd2yBqBVqTtJ3emdK_2DepTK6TNUSQR5Kk-iNLrfG9O8mBovnwo0LCsfIGi1MUGaF73Kg3ovVyluWhc/s320/concept+1.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preliminary Plan 2<br />
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</tbody></table>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-56347933544652497002010-11-30T22:14:00.001-08:002010-11-30T23:15:30.957-08:00Working in Class on Project Two<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For this second project we were challenged to do our work in class. So rather than a week to come up with two concepts, we had about two hours. That is a pretty substantial difference in time. But, I hate to say that Taze is right when he says that students produce the same amount of work in the shorter time frame when the proper amount of motivation is applied. I enjoyed this process not because I like the pressure but because it was nice to have all of our work complete by lunch and not have to worry about it for a while. I am assuming that this will be very similar to the process used by our future employers, if there are any jobs available. So I guess this whole produce by forced pressure will be good for us in the long run. </span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Option Two</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These were the first two drawings that were due at the end of the two hour class. I chose two extremely different approaches for the site. The first used the hill as the location for all of the housing and class rooms. I did this so that the flatter land could be used for farming. The second option placed the housing closer to the creek in the flatter area.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-35438058485705386012010-11-30T22:10:00.001-08:002010-11-30T22:52:32.578-08:00Project Two Introduction<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aiken Village as of now</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Project two was located on a site that most of us grad students know all too well, Aiken Village. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the third time that most of us have done a design for at least a small part of the site. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It seems that the apartments on the site have reached a state of disrepair that the best option is to just start over. So, our challenge was to design a new intentional community on the site. This was to be our own little piece of utopia. Looking back I am not sure that I made it quite to that point, after all there are not proposed snow covered mountains I my design. </span></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-19913061219488445262010-11-30T22:04:00.000-08:002010-12-01T09:52:59.336-08:00Perspectives for Project One<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">By doing these perspectives, I tried to capture the feeling of the place that I was aiming to create. I wanted to show what it would feel like to walk into the community. I wanted the drawings to be loosely sketched and not feel very mechanical. I added a little color to try and inject a little richness and depth. I think that I worked for most, but feel that some scenes would have worked better with less color or more muted tones.</span></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trees lining Whitfild Street</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stormwater fountain and plaza offer community spaces</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Entrance to a mixed use building on the corner of Whitfield and Scales</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A walk leading to plaza</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A birds-eye of the stormwater plaza</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Housing surrounding community garden and plaza</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A mixed use building w/ green roof and a courtyard</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-76421835680113177582010-11-30T21:59:00.000-08:002010-12-01T14:04:37.559-08:00Detailed Plan for Project One<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I have posted my enlarged plan from project one. It is enlarged to show some of the details to the mixed use plaza. For example, the plan illustrates how stormwater moves through the site. The detailed plan also shows pedestrian movement and the two spaces created for social interaction. The first space is directly behind the mixed use building and is geared for outdoor eating or sitting at a table. The second space is created between the mixed use buildings at the bottom of the plan. This space is intended to be used just sitting on a bench talking, reading or simply enjoying the day. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXfwmFB26yO2qo7nIDOVg97qNznFzizcDG44tqaZbaXuskL9E_CpAI7EfPR6IZsv_vetpKtEjFVtd28YADcgdcYV_iiSKzSrYon8sRiBoqzaj_i2K59xQO4_EXjkcqNx8cwkY_M9Az7GU/s1600/enlarged+plan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; height: 389px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 628px;"><img border="0" height="400" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXfwmFB26yO2qo7nIDOVg97qNznFzizcDG44tqaZbaXuskL9E_CpAI7EfPR6IZsv_vetpKtEjFVtd28YADcgdcYV_iiSKzSrYon8sRiBoqzaj_i2K59xQO4_EXjkcqNx8cwkY_M9Az7GU/s400/enlarged+plan.jpg" width="372" /></a></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-15132272240183095592010-11-30T21:51:00.000-08:002010-12-01T13:50:14.971-08:00Master Plan Project One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSF8C2Fk-Xc9_6EMXTU6GC2VigSnV4WQDq_GcW_1GNa4A-q0fu-Scz20Es38CB36yAgUSlZdVYzBKfGS-nXx-UipZYk_GjrrgumywtpaFCL8w84YGXJxm0xeeFn7006V8LAjULocA-B-U/s1600/Presentation+Poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSF8C2Fk-Xc9_6EMXTU6GC2VigSnV4WQDq_GcW_1GNa4A-q0fu-Scz20Es38CB36yAgUSlZdVYzBKfGS-nXx-UipZYk_GjrrgumywtpaFCL8w84YGXJxm0xeeFn7006V8LAjULocA-B-U/s400/Presentation+Poster.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">This is a poster that I made for my presentation. It has my master plan and some support drawings. Around the master plan are pictures and drawings that help to reinforce the feel that and look that I was trying to accomplish for the design. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It shows examples of local architecture, stormwater conveyance, character sketches, and examples of shadows created from entry artwork pieces. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Design Highlights </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">I tried to keep the stormwater on site in two ways. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vegetated swales to slow, collect and direct stormwater for multiple uses. Flow through planters next to house collect rain from gutters after a rain barrel is filled.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">There is an increase in density that is typical for the city with a variety of housing sizes and affordability. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Cars are hidden as much as possible by incorporating parking in the rear of the homes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Vegetable garden is located in the center of the site with an above ground cistern for irrigation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">There is a central plaza area with a stormwater fountain and a raised fire pit. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The site has three mixed use buildings so that some daily needs maybe made without use of an automobile. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">So for this project, my concept was “</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;">to borrow from existing examples around Starkville to convert a vacant, unused lot into a small vibrant community by focusing on using new urbanism principals.</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">” Now that the project is over and I have talked to Taze about it, I see that my concept morphed its self in to more of Goals and Objectives. I believe the concept should read more of a descriptive philosophy that inspires vivid images to the reader. At least that is what I will shoot for the next time I have to come up with a concept statement for a project. </span></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-69539242645860995462010-11-30T19:34:00.000-08:002010-11-30T19:46:49.703-08:00Green Walls<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPG8ATa9SZOqfedoIoGRq2MDPEiwKo1GP-lKY5pJxoD6-ycVc_1wb4oaHaa8S1_KQGm4h55nHPHRZ_DKDFNaoNPvQw2JpnFP_n55ceyBjZtCZlW3X092-MbKu_3M-LimsqaMJjiYRQhA0/s1600/051.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPG8ATa9SZOqfedoIoGRq2MDPEiwKo1GP-lKY5pJxoD6-ycVc_1wb4oaHaa8S1_KQGm4h55nHPHRZ_DKDFNaoNPvQw2JpnFP_n55ceyBjZtCZlW3X092-MbKu_3M-LimsqaMJjiYRQhA0/s320/051.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Green walls became an interest for me two summers ago while doing some research on stormwater. The first green wall that I saw and really noticed what I was looking at was at the Renaissance in Ridgeland, Mississippi. A clothing store chain had a modular green wall install on the entrance to the store. At first glance it looked really cool, but as I got closer, I noticed that there were some problems with the plants. This was probably from installing the plants before maturity. Most of the plants appeared sparse and lack vigor. </span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9gzlGomtrvqwXVR_m2Xs6eDqe2P8AQuJpQJz3LQyF1SMHdNQPlRiuTh5A6UK3oe4iy_O2Ot2aA9iL8ECsx7jJfsy_Qqj6EyLTtTWVSo-XKO949dcB90zbwM7jMf1jRUngq9v4wZDPwOg/s1600/066.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9gzlGomtrvqwXVR_m2Xs6eDqe2P8AQuJpQJz3LQyF1SMHdNQPlRiuTh5A6UK3oe4iy_O2Ot2aA9iL8ECsx7jJfsy_Qqj6EyLTtTWVSo-XKO949dcB90zbwM7jMf1jRUngq9v4wZDPwOg/s320/066.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-92110951140649834372010-11-30T19:17:00.000-08:002010-11-30T19:24:31.563-08:00Project One<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Our first project for studio III focused on infilling an existing site in Starkville. There were several interesting site characteristics. The site only had two small buildings that were abandoned. The houses that surrounded the site were a varied in size, style, value and condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Well this is rather interesting. Before the recession most people would find down-sizing to this scale absolutely ridiculous. I am curious what most people think of this tiny little house these days. Would someone possibly at risk of getting over their head in debt, consider living in something like this? The utilities have to be a lot cheaper.</span></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-58325075403649772962010-11-29T21:16:00.000-08:002010-11-29T21:16:49.857-08:00Drawings<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"><a href="http://www.studioriera.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.studioriera.com</span></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">I found this website looking for graphic ideas. I thought that the drawings were very clean, simple and nice. They remind me of the illustrations in Krier’s book. Also a bit like Taze’s examples.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"></span>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-87881191710692495022010-11-29T20:25:00.001-08:002010-11-29T20:25:31.242-08:00Interactive Windows by Harvard<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><a href="http://www.adaptivebuildings.com/adaptive-fritting.html"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">http://www.adaptivebuildings.com/adaptive-fritting.html</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I found this while researching for a project. These glass panels are fitted with a system that will move, thus changing a pattern or altering the visibility. This could be used as an artistic expression or a way to restrict sunlight. This could be an interesting way to cool a home and save money. </span></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-32963864750176642412010-11-29T20:13:00.000-08:002010-11-29T20:14:17.902-08:00Green Roofs at Mississippi State<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBnJk_lvLHuk_YEk6J7VpyoLsscaArPGYnPrTl3jHP4IrL9fPapOqW5B19Rba5K-5rrXvQjDM5H6xYUQ_3BHmFnGLJMkFJhPJr_KdEZ-mi6jPOEtlslN-ruB_WzOp-MBhGy-SyScXl2R0/s1600/IMG_2362.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBnJk_lvLHuk_YEk6J7VpyoLsscaArPGYnPrTl3jHP4IrL9fPapOqW5B19Rba5K-5rrXvQjDM5H6xYUQ_3BHmFnGLJMkFJhPJr_KdEZ-mi6jPOEtlslN-ruB_WzOp-MBhGy-SyScXl2R0/s320/IMG_2362.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">This is my thesis research. I built these structures or “cubes” as I like to refer to them, in order to test temperature differences in buildings with and without green roofs. I wanted to keep the buildings small for several reasons: the first is cost, obviously, and then build time, and finally available space and resources. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><br />
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Ecological urbanism seems to have evolved from a closely related theory, landscape urbanism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The difference between the two is that landscape urbanism attempts to comprehend how to progress away from “traditional urbanism” and ecological</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">urbanism is about using nature to connect, reinvent and to increase the </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">sustainability<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">our cities (Lapides 2010). Traditional urbanism has been about “preserving or adding ecological elements such as green spaces to urban environment (Yang 2010). </span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Ecological urbanism expands this idea “by linking the urban forms and flows of material, energy, water and organism across the system boundaries” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(Yang 2010).</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-52071770489557312142010-11-29T08:01:00.001-08:002010-11-29T08:01:52.363-08:00Eco Village<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj008vC2zxpE1gsR8k3SmV7qvGKe6fXxZ80o5whfzr-7Qhdci7qD6SsYSehxKBWFQTRx74_1XGCp6Mq6980yd3gA16n3BcFR0jIOw6pJ6X1S1wL4wRD3t5ay5PQRRSacTzoX4HiRQ4mzB4/s1600/EcoVillage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj008vC2zxpE1gsR8k3SmV7qvGKe6fXxZ80o5whfzr-7Qhdci7qD6SsYSehxKBWFQTRx74_1XGCp6Mq6980yd3gA16n3BcFR0jIOw6pJ6X1S1wL4wRD3t5ay5PQRRSacTzoX4HiRQ4mzB4/s400/EcoVillage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">This type of community is a very deliberate attempt to live in a manner that will reduce one’s ecological impact on the Earth. Housing is typically made from natural materials, farming is very important to the daily life and local commerce is supported whenever possible. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7113395515376369650.post-11258708177146863642010-11-29T07:51:00.000-08:002010-11-29T07:51:20.101-08:00Cohousing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKsE4G20s9MVpom5iY61EDJvF_aBKU08fqfMUzQ5Frgl6DdJQ_CI2VyFPCIxL7fYjc4K1vvd1DglLM5rqCF2JaCssOycJJGCG2hK9fH1WS1HIGrp3P8HeFYkbXP1KezTAudlc_xtt4OjY/s1600/Cohousing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKsE4G20s9MVpom5iY61EDJvF_aBKU08fqfMUzQ5Frgl6DdJQ_CI2VyFPCIxL7fYjc4K1vvd1DglLM5rqCF2JaCssOycJJGCG2hK9fH1WS1HIGrp3P8HeFYkbXP1KezTAudlc_xtt4OjY/s400/Cohousing.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.85pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Cohousing is very similar to a traditional neighborhood, but it has some additional benefits. There is a stronger sense of community with cohousing. Social ties are strengthened by sharing meals, community space and decision making. </span></div>Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15363984203884662460noreply@blogger.com0