        Kim, Sungtaek : AssignmentsAssignment 710/29 This lecture is about how to form an urban area, which has to be well organized and also has to be in most efficient form; it has to be easy to travel from one point to other in city. There was an industrial revolution, and that changed all the people’s aspect on transportation. Then people had to start planning for urban city in future. One way is to make the city organized by making all the blocks square and make a straight street across the city vertically and horizontally. Not only that, but also they had to divide the lands evenly and appropriate for its purpose. The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term often used to refer to the islands of SE Asia, especially the Malay Archipelago.[1][2] In a wider sense, the Indies is also used to describe lands of South and Southeast Asia[1], occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and also Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, which was last called the Dutch East Indies before independence. Urbanism is the study of cities - their geographic, economic, political, social and cultural environment, and the imprint of all these forces on the built environment. Urbanism is also the practice of creating human communities for living, work, and play, covering the more human aspects of urban planning. Urbanists define urban areas by their high population density. They maintain that this characteristic makes cities physically and sociologically distinct from rural areas. The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress on May 20, 1785. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation of the inhabitants of the United States. Therefore, the immediate goal of the ordinance was to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original colonies acquired from Britain at the end of the Revolutionary War. Is there any best time for the change on land? I don’t think that there was absolutely no complain at all. How can you settle those arguments? How can they design and organize the city when they don’t know what can be happen to human technology and all? 11/12 This lecture was about how our campus developed and how it will develop in future. We will use different technology and probably extend our campus to further outward. It was hard to do so since our campus was on downtown, but it will become possible. As one of leading technology school, we are ahead on using newest technology, and these will help us to save time and energies. In some natural disasters, we will also save natural resources like waters, or electricity. Phase-design or phase array is a group of antennas in which the relative phases of the respective signals feeding the antennas are varied in such a way that the effective radiation pattern of the array is reinforced in a desired direction and suppressed in undesired directions.[1] This technology was originally developed by future Nobel Laureate Luis Alvarez during World War II as a rapidly-steerable radar system for "ground-controlled approach", a system to aid in the landing of airplanes in England. (GEMA in Germany built at the same time the PESA Mamut1. [2]) It was later adapted for radio astronomy, leading to Physics Nobel Prizes for Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle after several large phased arrays were developed at Cambridge University. The design is also used in radar, and is generalized in interferometer radio antennas. Lately the DARPA researchers announced a 16 element phased array integrated with all necessary circuits to send at 30-50 GHz on a single silicon chip for military purposes [3]. Cisterns are commonly used in areas where water is scarce, either because it is rare or because it has been depleted due to heavy use. Early on, the water was used for many purposes including cooking, irrigation, and washing. Present day cisterns are often only used for irrigation due to concerns over water quality. Cisterns today can also be outfitted with filters or other water purification methods when the water is meant for consumption. A few people leave their cisterns open to catch rain, or have more elaborated rain-catching systems. It is recommended in these cases to have a system that does not leave the water open to mosquitoes or algae, which are attracted to the water and then carry disease to nearby humans. How long does it take to change master plan on the campus? How much does new technology influence the master plan in terms of cost and time? What affects the most in the master plan? 10/31 In first PowerPoint, they showed how they went to some ID festival and what they saw, etc. Some of pictures which showed several industrial designs were interesting. The second one was about SCA, which stands for Student construction association. The PowerPoint describe who is managing it, what they are doing, and if you are interested, where to meet them. The last one is AIAS, which is a representation of students to the architecture profession, as a voice of student. The tailgate in American English is the board or gate at the back of a wagon, truck, station wagon, etc., hinged at the bottom which can be removed or let down for convenience in loading or unloading. A door at the back of a vehicle hinged at the top and opens to the top is referred to in American English as hatch, hatchback or lift gate. A grassroots movement (often referenced in the context of a political movement) is one driven by the constituents of a community. The term implies that the creation of the movement and the group supporting it is natural and spontaneous, highlighting the differences between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures. Often times, grassroots movements are at the local level, as many volunteers in the community give their time to support the local party, which can lead to helping the national party. For instance, a grassroots movement can lead to significant voter registration for a political party, which in turn helps the state and national parties. An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. Internet forums are also commonly referred to as web forums, message boards, discussion boards, (electronic) discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards, fora (the Latin plural) or simply forums. The terms "forum" and "board" may refer to the entire community or to a specific sub-forum dealing with a distinct topic. Messages within these sub-forums are then displayed either in chronological order or as threaded discussions. I feel like those group activities are interesting. How can I join? It seems like there are more alumni people than undergrad students. Why is it? You know we are all crammed by studio works. How many times do you guys meet? Assignment 10/28 10/10 Part 1 Architecture is different from just buildings. Architecture has to consider how we should build here and now, and what kind of world we are shaping in this area. What we build needs to harmonize in that area and environment, and must look nice not by itself, but in that nature and in environment. While it harmonizes, it should be build for its purpose, building’s usage. However, even though buildings are made for same use, culture of the environment and architect give great influence on how the building would shape. Because of that, our architecture represents the world we are living, and also it represents the architect’s thinking and even political concepts. Urban cities are results of architecture. Part 2 Ecological Building is both a design process and the structure that is a result of such a design process. The Ecological Building design process is a modern architecture variant of Perm culture design. An Ecological Building is a structure that is designed to create and sustain mutually beneficial relationships with all of the elements of its local ecology. A building's local ecology, or environment, is made up of particular physical and biological elements and their interactions. Regional development is the provision of aid and other assistance to regions which are less economically developed. Regional development may be domestic or international in nature. The implications and scope of regional development may therefore vary in accordance with the definition of a region, and how the region and its boundaries are perceived internally and externally. Urban design concerns the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, and in particular the shaping and uses of urban public space. It has traditionally been regarded as a disciplinary subset of urban planning, landscape architecture, or architecture and more contemporary linked to emergent disciplines such as Landscape Urbanism. However, with its increasing prominence in the activities of these disciplines, it is better conceptualized as a design practice that operates at the intersection of all three, and requires a good understanding of a range of others besides, such as urban economics, political economy and social theory. Part 3 I think this lecture was the best lecture and also the most interesting lecture I heard in 1060 class. I just have questions like how long does a project take usually. Or, I see many graphical models from computer, but what kinds of program do we use in architecture studios. Also when we do 3D models with woods, do we have to buy the materials and all? 10/15 Part1 The main job of Building Construction major is interpreting the design of architects and actually doing the operation of building or being a bridge between architects and construction specialized group. There are two cycles in operation of building: the stakeholder and life cycle phrase. Those two are different just between where the BC stands in the assembly line. Also there are different types of constructions: residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, and engineering. BC has great percent for job finding before graduation, and average salary is little higher than architecture undergrad students. Part2 Corporate stakeholder is a party who affects, or can be affected by, the company's actions. The stakeholder concept was developed and championed by R. Edward Freeman in the 1980s. It has gained wide acceptance in business practice and in theorizing relating to strategic management, corporate governance, and business purpose. Procurement is the acquisition of goods and/or services at the best possible total cost of ownership, in the right quantity and quality, at the right time, in the right place for the direct benefit or use of governments, corporations, or individuals, generally via a contract. Simple procurement may involve nothing more than repeat purchasing. Complex procurement could involve finding long term partners – or even 'co-destiny' suppliers that might fundamentally commit one organization to another. An entrepreneur (a loanword from French introduced and first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cotillion) is a person who operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. A female entrepreneur is sometimes referred to as an entrepreneur. The newly and modern view on entrepreneurial talent is a person who takes the risks involved to undertake a business venture. In doing so, they are said to efficiently and effectively use the factors of production. That is land (natural resources), labor (human input into production using available resources) and capital (any type of equipment used in production i.e. machinery). A business that can efficiently manage this and in the long-run hopefully expand (future prospects of larger firms and businesses), will become successful. Part3 I thought that architecture was so much harder than BC, but how come BC has higher starting salary than architecture? I mean architecture requires so much more thinking and more work, but BC is just managing the building operation. I know money is not everything, but I just think that this is unfair. Or am I misunderstanding BC itself? If BC is a hard job, which part of BC does it make it so much harder? 10/22 Part 1 Industrial design is a creative design in productions that is benefit for user and manufacturer and which also brings improvement on people daily lives by creating new appearance and technology into a production. There are many kinds of industrial designs, and it affects from our simple daily life to complex environment such as hospital or factory. Also these designs have different focus on their designs: people, future, environment, and social-economic. There are many processes in designs, such as problem solving, process driven, advocate for users, etc… ID program in Georgia Tech is known to be one of the top ranked. Part 2 Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social or economic strength of individuals and communities. It often involves the empowered developing confidence in their own capacities. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy, a species of value theory or axiology, which is the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is closely associated with the philosophy of art. Anthropometry (Greek áíèñùðïò, man, and ìåôñïí, measure, literally meaning "measurement of humans"), in physical anthropology, refers to the measurement of living human individuals for the purposes of understanding human physical variation. Today, anthropometry plays an important role in industrial design, clothing design, ergonomics, and architecture, where statistical data about the distribution of body dimensions in the population are used to optimize products. Changes in life styles, nutrition and ethnic composition of populations lead to changes in the distribution of body dimensions (e.g., the obesity epidemic), and require regular updating of anthropometric data collections. Part 3 ID has so broad range in terms of jobs, but generally which kinds of ID did previous Georgia Tech graduates start to work and what were their starting salaries? I know that it is depends on what kind and where you apply, but how competitive to get a job after graduating as ID major? Library 101 Bates, Kristin, and Swan, Richelle. Through the eye of Katrina : social justice in the United States. : Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2007. Rose. Chris. 1 dead in Attic : afer Katrina. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007. Polidori, Robert. After the flood Göttingen : Steidl, 2006. Saltman, Kenneth. Capitalizing on disaster : taking and breaking public schools. Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2007. Dyson, Michael Eric.Come hell or high water : Hurricane Katrina and the color of disaster. New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2006. Polzin, Paul E.Economic Impacts Hurricane Katrina.Montana Business Quarterly; Autumn2005, Vol. 43 Issue 3, p19-20, 2p, 1 chart, 1c STEPHENS, Kevin. Public Health Impacts of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.Indoor Environment Quality Strategies; Jan2006, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p4-6, 3p Ryan, Thomas J.The Industry Holds Strong in Katrina's Aftermath.SGB; Oct2005, Vol. 38 Issue 10, p10-12, 2p, 2c Yergin, Daniel. THE KATRINA CRISIS. Management Quarterly; Fall2005, Vol. 46 Issue 3, p2-8, 7p Kuhl, Craig. Financials Take Hit.Wireless Week; 10/1/2005, Vol. 11 Issue 20, p22-22, 1p, 2c SHAILA DEWAN. Hurricane Aid Is Extended for Some. The New York Times. Section A; Column 0; National Desk; Pg. 20 Swinford, Steven. Black Country gives America a hurricane of advice. London: Sunday Times Gawenda, Michael. America has failed its blacks. Melbourne, Australia: The Age. 9/4/2007 Fein, Geoff. Katrina Showed Need For Rapid Damage Assessment, Improved Communications. New Orleans: 2006. Defense Daily The story behind Hurricane Katrina. Australia: Northern Territory News, September 26, 2005 Monday, TELEVISION; Pg. 21 After the Flood. The Nation. New York: Sep 10-Sep 17, 2007. Vol. 285, Iss. 7; pg. 3 Templeton, Robin. Locked Up in New Orleans. The Nation. New York: Sep 10-Sep 17, 2007. Vol. 285, Iss. 7; pg. 25 Golub. Robert. New Orleans, Katrina, and the Death and Life of Cities. JAMA. Chicago: Sep 5, 2007. Vol. 298, Iss. 9; pg. 1062 Yeoman. Barry. KATRINA: The Untold Story. AARP The Magazine. Washington: Sep/Oct 2007. Vol. 50, Iss. 5A; pg. 73 The long slog after Katrina. Boston Globe. Boston, Mass.: Aug 29, 2007. pg. A.16 Young, Robert, and Pilkey, Orrin. Will Hurricane Katrina Impact Shoreline Management? Here's Why It Should. NC: A. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Denzin, Norman. Katrina and the Collapse of Civil Society in New Orleans. Illinois: University of Illinois Daniels, Ronald. Kettl, Donald, and Kunreuther, Howard. On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. R Rudowitz, Robin, D Rowland, Diane, and Shartzer, Adele. Health Care in New Orleans Before And After Hurricane Katrina. Health Affairs, 25, no. 5 (2006): w393-w406 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.w393 Barsky, Lauren, Trainor, Joseph, and Torres, Manuel. Disaster Realities in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Revisiting the Looting Myth. University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository 2006 Horne, Jed. Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City . Random House, 2006 Cooper, Christopher, and Block, Robert. Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security. Holt Paperbacks; Reprint edition. 2007 Miller, Mara. Hurricane Katrina Strikes the Gulf Coast: Disaster & Survival. Enslow Publishers. 2006 Zakin, Susan, McKibben, Bill, and Jordan, Chris. In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster. Princeton Architectural Press. 2007 Moyer. Susan. Hurricane Katrina: Stories of Rescue, Recovery and Rebuilding in the Eye of the Storm. Spotlight Press LLC. 2005 Assignment 4 Lecture in 9/17 Part 1 This lecture is about how architecture’s structures and design can affect people life in terms of doing physical activities. In the USA, people have serious problem with getting overweight and having depression because of weight. The problem gets worse and worse, and architecture can affect the problem greatly. Many people dies because they don’t do 30 minutes of physical activities, and this lecture shows us how we can fix this problem by design the building, which force people to do physical activities. Also the sunlight can affect people’s lives, and architecture can design to work better for gaining more sun lights in the room, which makes people feel better; this can be the example for hospital. Part 2 Hybrids are commonly produced and selected because they have desirable characteristics not found or inconsistently present in the parent individuals or populations. When I heard word hybrid, first thing that came to me was on car. But when I looked it up, it had pretty much different meaning then what I thought. Anyhow, I think in this lecture, it pretty much meant something that we don’t usually get from normal physical activities so we have to do a specific one just for it, such as bench pressing or working out in general. Caregiver zone are areas that healthcare professionals are moving and staying while they are helping the patient. This term and other, family zone and patient zone, are the unfamiliar term for almost many people who are not really interested in majoring in doctor school or something. Anyway, for people like us, who need to think about designing of rooms and building in any kind of use, we really need to know and, even further go, understand the basic room structure to figure out better design later on. Environmental Factors are determinants of diseases, which is not transmitted genetically. This factor can bring huge impacts to people’s lives, in terms of physical activities and all, just as much as other two factors, organizational factor and personal factors. In the lecture, he just wanted to tell us that how our design can bring people lives much better if we do well. Part 3 The whole point of this lecture was getting us to realize that how our major can bring huge influences to people’s lives and culture. But even if we come up with better design than previous one, we need to get approval from some kinds of government office and all. What is the name of it, and what is the procedure for it? Coming up with better design will take a long time to do so. When do we start taking course that is just involved in our major? What was the cause for hospitals to look for increase in safety with new designs? How does light in hospital affects people’s mental illness? Is there any scientific evidences for that? Lecture 9/19 Part1 In this lecture, they showed how people deconstruct olds buildings for new buildings to come in on that area. In the video, they showed us how they do all the workings to bring down a site of building to construct the new one, Atlantic Station. This is really important for architecture, because when we are building an apartment, we need to think about bring it down too. In process of building, we should not try to defect natural sources as much as possible. Part 2 Aerial view is simply bird eye view, looking down at something from above. This is critical for architecture, because we need to think about not just a building itself, but also the whole site of the building from the distance or above the sky. The buildings that you designed should be harmonized with the surrounding environment. Prototype is an original type or form of something that serves as original’s sample or model. This is something that architecture major people will really focus on, especially for people who are specialized on modern architecture. Demolition is opposite of construction. This is a end process for building construction when it served its role in that site, and need to build a new construction in that same site. Because the earth has limited land for building, this will happen to all the building somehow and sometimes. Part 3 I just wanted to ask why they didn’t just blow up the place. It would be much easier without wasting any times For a demolition building site, what are the things that you need to check about that place? (like land, surroundings, etc) In order for a demolition building, does it need approval from city hall or from government? What affects the approval of the government and city hall? Lecture 9/27/07 Part 1 In this lecture, he showed us about Palladio’s great work and what was so great about him. He was a famous architect, and what he built had something that nobody could imitate. His architectures had harmony proportion and undefined quality of limitless. He gave what clients wanted for their building, and that made him so much successful. His buildings, Palladio’s Villas, are spread out in southern part of Italy. His works have been famous for nearly centuries, and buildings are still standing there. Part 2 Keynote is principal underlying theme of a large idea. This term is usually used in literature, music, and public speaking, but it can possibly work in architecture too. Palladio’s work had some kind of musical harmony, and this keynote is the reason for its geometric harmony in that building. Proportion is a simple word that used in many other lectures, but in this lecture it serves its whole meaning. By having perfect proportion in the building geometric shape and design, Palladio gives indefinable quality of limitless to the people who see it and study it. Villa was usually an upper-class country house, and the idea came from Roman. This proves that Palladio usually worked for upper-class clients, and because he was famous, it shows how expensive it was to bring Palladio for the design for a house. Part 3 Just curious, but I just want to know more about speaker. Is he majoring in architecture school, and specialized in classical architecture or something? There are many more architects in our history, but what is so special about him? Is it just the harmony of proportion or is there more? Too be honest, I don’t know much about any architects. In your opinion, who is the best architect ever, and why is he? I don’t think I was the only one who had to try my best to understand what he was saying. I don’t know if it is possible, but next time, can you please invite someone who has no accents as usual? ASSIGNMENT 2 8/29/07 Part 1 This lecture was about all the professional architects who are specialties on classic design. They are talented and well educated for their profession at first place, and they designed many buildings throughout the country. They brought up issue about why people still like classical designs in terms of architectures. The lecture gave us ideas of how classical design get create, and how they can be still popular as one of the leading designs of buildings. Some of the important terms were perspective study, mantel design, schematic drawing, detail sketch, master plan, etc… Part 2 Perspective Study: It is an approximate representation, on a flat surface, of image as it is perceived by the eyes. This drawing has two most characteristic features of it are the drawing gets smaller as the distance of the drawer gets closer, and distortion of images by the angle that it is shown. Mantel Design: it is design of a chimneypiece originated as a projecting hood which in medieval times was built over a fireplace opening to catch the smoke, and as it evolved the decorative framework around the fireplace. It is usually one part of classical designing of a house or building. Part 3 Three questions: Classical designs are still widely used in many places, and especially in building for public uses, such as town hall, or bank. Why do you think that it happens? What is the origin of the classical design? If there is more than one, can you tell which ones are most widely used? As a specialty in classical designer, do you think that people should move on to modern design than classic design in terms of choosing their building’s design? Holding on to classical design too much can result delay on development and improvement on architecture. 8/31/07 Part 1 • This lecture was about Georgia tech going to a competition of making a solar powered house. In this competition, Georgia tech competes with other colleges, such as MIT, Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University and etc, and even international schools from Spain, Germany, and Canada. In this competition, you need to make a house that need zero power, except the solar power. Because solar power can give tremendous amounts of energy instead of electricity or gas, in the future, it will be necessary to build a house that is only function by solar power. This competition emphasizes the necessary of using solar power to save much energy. Also it give chance for colleges to challenge other college architecture major by competing about who is making the best, well designed and more efficient, house among all. There were lots of important terms that we needed to know: building envelope, translucent skins, thermal bridging, etc… Part 2 Building Envelope: it is a separation between the interior and exterior environments of a building. It serves as the outer shell to protect the indoor environment as well as to facilitate its climate control. Building envelope design is a specialized area of architectural and engineering practice that draws from all areas of building science and indoor climate control. It includes four major performance objectives: moisture control, temperature control, control of air pressure, etc... Thermal Bridge: it is created when materials that are poor insulators come in contact, allowing heat to follow through the path created. Usually insulation around a bridge is of little help is preventing heat loss of rain due to thermal bridging. If it is created, it should be eliminated, and rebuilt with a reduced cross-section of with materials that have better insulating properties, or with an additional insulating component. Part 3 In competition, was there any limitation on the house that you were making? If there was no limitation on size of the house, do think it would be advantage to make the house larger? Explain your answer How much does it cost to make a house into solar powered? Do you think it is affordable for people to use that? Solar power can be effective than any other energy resources in this world, and it is limitless and free. But what would be the BEST way to gain solar energy that could help all the mankind? 9/05/07 Part 1 This lecture thoroughly explains about how the architectural processes are changed and preceded on the installations, one that Georgia Tech made few years ago. They show how the computer takes big role on fabricating materials that can be used in all the architectural designs and construction, and also they show all the steps, materials, equipments, that are used and took to establish the installation and also other works that are famous or phenomenal by other architects or industrial designers. Some important terms that are mentioned in lectures are Thermoforming Modules, Module Syntax, Sonic Welding of Seams, etc… Part 2 Prototyping: it is a process of quickly putting together a working model in order to test various aspects of a design, illustrate ideas or features and gather early user feedback. It is often treated as an integral part of the system design process, where it is believed to reduce project risk and cost. Software Implementation: it is a systemically structured approach to effectively integrate software based service or component into the workflow of an organizational structure or an individual end-user. This is focused on the process modeling side of the implementation of large and complex product, in this care building or installation. Part 3 From 20Th century to 21th century, there is a huge change over the process line, linear to iterative. What can be the advantages and disadvantages of change on the process line of the architecture? You said that the green plastic pieces for the installation, that has been built few years ago, were cut by laser cutters. But how come there aren’t any burn marks for plastic pieces? If there were some marks, what kind of process do you go thorough to get rid of them? How long does it take to make an installation? What influence the time it takes to make? Installation one Part 1- description The main material of this installation is clear plastic. To hold them together, they used bolts, nails, and screws. Also they used metal strings to hold them in the air. Before they all connect and put them together, each part of the installation was bent and shaped into certain ways. Those clear plastics can be reshaped by heating them with high temperature, but I don’t know where they did this. I only thought that these works are only possible in some kind of factory, where they have equipments and also can ensure safety. However, when the parts are all made into shapes that were planned, they just need to be built. To me, it seems like all the parts in one row of plastic were connected at first. After that, they put together with screws and bolts; obviously those plastics already have holes and place for screws to go in. when they all do that, they put the bottom part, where all the plastic rows come together, in the spot, and hold the upper part firmly with metal strings. The shape of it is from right down to left up, diagonally. It forms a fluctuating wave shape, and a row of plastic crosses more than one row next to it. Its thickness is around 3 vertical plastic rows. The installation is spread out vertically, and as it moves to left up, it turns 180 degrees and the rows spread horizontally. Proportion of the part on right down corner, where every row of plastic gets fold into their minimum size, and the part, where the installation lays on top of the horizontal column, which also is the widest part of the all, are about 1 to 6. So from left down to right up, the size of the installation goes from XS to XL, and to L at the end. Because it is clear, lights can be reflected, and make it possible to be seen much more fantastic. Part 2- speculation First, its purpose of the installation seems like catching attentions of pedestrians of Georgia tech, and for experts, a beauty of designing an artifact. But I want to ask besides the purpose of what I said, is there any other usage of that installation? Also I want to ask how they did come up with the design and material to use. I ask this question because I can not really answer the question, ‘what kind of images does this installation sponsor’. It’s tough to see intention and images that they want to show to others. Only based on its look, I can name it, ‘air flow’. If you see that during a cloudless day, it seems like air is flowing around the space. Installation 2 Part 1 Main material seems to be wood. To hold a bunch of woods, they used many screws, bolts, nails, and also metal holder under the chair part. They are mostly bunch of same shape and size of woods, but in the middle part, at height of 2nd floor, they are bent twice in different spots; it may seems like they have different length of wave, or frequency. Except that part, woods are in perfectly symmetric. The woods seem like they have all same length and width until the part where all the woods have different curve, and their similarity continues after that curve. Part 2 Besides the installation, there is really no where to sit and rest in that first floor’s open area. By making the end part of the installation shaped and also function like a bench, unlike the installation one, its usage became more significant, and it became something that people appreciate presence of the installation. But I’m curious on how you can measure the length of a wooden part that is continuous from bottom to top. It isn’t that simple since it has multiples of curves on it. But I really want to know what their real intended concept of the installation was, and what troubles they had during process of making the installation. However, based on my perspective, I can think of two names. One is “the journey of a tree”. If you counts the top part of this installation as a birth of a tree, it shows the life of a tree from when it starts to when it ends, becoming a bench by human. The separation of the installation in 3rd floor can be seen as its branches and those curves in middle as change of its environment. Another name that I came up with “Rest in COA” Everyone in Georgia Tech knows that architecture is the most time consuming and difficult major; this major’s students really need some times to rest their bodies and mind. So the team of designers wanted to grant the students some place to rest their bodies even just a moment. Through this installation, I’m thinking that they wanted to express that they need some time and place to rest since they couldn’t because of their works in COA courses. Link to this Page
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