        Wu, Meng-Chuan : AssignmentsLectures 10.10:ArchitecturePart One: Playback“Architecture” was constructed into three parts in this lecture: Discipline, Profession, and Program at Georgia Tech. The lecturer defined discipline as the field of study. In other words, it is our ways of thinking and the relationship between a building and the builder (architects or designers). The profession of Architecture includes practice, internship, tests, and license. In order to become a profession architect, one would need to gain enough experience and skills through practice (eg. internship) and passed license tests. Some programs at Georgia Tech that would be helpful in Architecture profession are Design & Art, Urban Design & Policy, Sustainability and Ecological Literacy, and Digital Manufacturing and Technology Integration. The important concepts the lecturer introduced was to really understand why people build the way they build and how to make Architecture different from merely a building.Part Two: Look Up1) Urban Design: Urban Design basically means the design that makes public places useful. These public places are to be defined by buildings. (eg. Plaza, square) Urban Design involves building design, landscape design, and clustered buildings.(http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/professionals/en/1115310689961.html) 2) academical village: it’s used to describe both the specific area of the Lawn and the larger University surrounding It was called this by Thomason Jefferson. The importance of this academical village is that it is a center of composition.. It is designed in a way to make the architecture natural. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawn) 3) Landscape Architect: Landscape architect is “a person involved in the planning, design and sometimes oversight of an exterior landscape or space” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_architect). This kind of architect was not commonly recognised until the early twentieth century. Landscape architects basically design/plan just the exterior landscape, where as general architect might design both the building and the exterior landscape. Part Three: SpeculateAfter listening to the presenter talking about how different buildings (designs) can represent the life on earth, I feel that the “personality” of a building/design was built upon the architects. When he mentioned the quote from Winston Churchill, “We shape our Buildings and afterwards they shape us,” I wonder is it really the buildings that shape us or is it that we shape the buildings the way “we want them to shape us”?Lectures 10.15:Building ConstructionPart One: PlaybackIn this lecture, the presenter suggested that the main interest of Building Construction was to understand how to design a building and then build it. He explained that the process of constructing a building started with Urban Planning and Regulatory Agencies. These agencies would help to find areas that the owners would like to concentrate on. The process then passed on to different levels of participants including the owner, the developers, the designer, the builders, and the operators. The idea of how these different participants would work separately yet integrated at some aspects to work on the same project was discussed. This integrated system allows them to think about different issues such as the time, the cost, the labor, or the materials.Part Two: Look UpResearch, then define (concisely, clearly) 3 terms, concepts, or constructs, mentioned in each of the three lectures, that you did NOT know about before the lecture.1) Life Cycle Concept: the basic idea of building construction: when we need a building, designs will be produced, with that design, operators will manage to make the building. 2) stakeholders: in building construction, the stakeholders are ones who invest, finance in a project and affect or affected by the project. These include the owner, the architects and engineers, the contractor and suppliers, and building operators and managers. 3) mixed use (in the aspect of Building Construction): a multi-function place/plaza/square. A good example will be Tech Square. It has restaurants, shopping stores, hotels, with just walking distance between them. Part Three: SpeculateIt was helpful how the presenter explained the relationships between different levels of participants in one building constructing project. I think it was especially interesting when he said that if the relationship between one design firm and the contractor were not good, the owner might lose money and still not notice it. He also mentioned that how important the efficiency and communication is for a design/build firm. I thought building construction was just about getting the materials and build the building based on the design someone else made ready for you. After this lecture, I have gained more knowledge on how Building Construction was not less range than Architecture and how integrated it actually is.Lectures 10.22:Industrial DesignPart One: PlaybackThe presenter defined Industrial Design as the design of a product that “adds value, increase usability and simplifies life through improved human-product interaction.” The most important characteristic an industrial designer has to bear in mind is if the product is “user centered.” Since every design is a respond to a problem, the answer (design) must be advocate for the people (where the problem raise) or it would be useless. Another important concept of design is that “Design is never for today, it’s for tomorrow.” I thought this could be related to the “need and supply” in economy. Supply would only be provided if there is need in the market just like a design would only appeared when the manufacturers see the potential future of it. Some important words the presenter mentioned are humanization of technology, empowerment, multi-facility, user-centered, and good-design.Part Two: Look Up1) good-design: a design that is designed by one who understand his/her target people and the design carries the characteristics of empowerment, social-economic focused, and future focused.2) humanization of technology: the use of technology to make a product in which it is more suitable for human. (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=humanization) 3) user-centered: in this lecture, it is used as a design that is advocate for the people. In other words, the designers should mind who they are designing for and how could the designs be made so their function can be utilized. Part Three: SpeculateThis was a very organized and interesting lecture. The most important concept I learned from the lecture was the “process” of solving a problem (to design). I can feel how this idea is related to the 1011 studio assignments. The result of our works is crucial, yet more importantly was how we came up with what we have (by having varies studies). As a design is in progress, the designer needs to keep switching his/her focus between both its parts and the whole. How could/should the design be made with or without another component? How would that affect the outside world? These are just some of the questions the designers face all the time. After the lecture, I am more interested in the ID world.EBSCOSearch terms: KatrinaHoltzman, Anna. "Why are so many displaced residents of New Orleansbeing left out of the rebuilding process?." Architecture 3, no. 95 (2006): 72. Kennedy, Shawn. "Remaking New Orleans, without losing its past." Architectural record 6, no. 195 (2007): 85-88,226. Lubell, Sam. "Lousiana recovery continues to hig snags." Architectural record 6, no. 195 (2007): 42. EBSCO Host. McKee, Bradford. "New Orleans recovery plan released." Architect 6, no. 96 (2007): 20. EBSCO Host. Martin , Colin. 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He also touched on a special-designed hospital room to show us how architecture could be helpful to the patient and the family. Some of the important terms he mentioned are hybrid, layout invisibility, health care design, space syntax, obesity, intentional, incidental, voluntary stair use predictors, and activity-friendly settings.Before this lecture, I would think hybrid is a combination of two different objects/systems. This turned out to be somewhat correct. He used this word to describe the kind of physical activity that people do both intentionally and incidentally. An example he gave was parking far away intentionally and walked to the destination. I think the idea of hybrid is important because it gives people the opportunity to be more physically active when just doing some daily activity. Since the percentage of people having obesity has enormously increased in the U.S., it is necessary for people do as much as exercise when they have a chance. In this lecture layout invisibility is referred to the location of installments such as stairs or elevators in a building. When designing a building, it is important to carefully consider where one installment should be since the location dominates the likeliness of usage and hence affect the human behavior. I thought activity-friendly setting means a design/setting that is easy for people to do physical activity, in other words, without barriers. I was wrong. Here, activity-friendly-settings are referring to settings that engaged people with physical activities. One example would be stairs. Building more activity-friendly is an essential task when design any buildings because letting physical environment increase physical activity could be helpful in human health. Q1. Teaching/Learning: Instead of designing stairs or elevators at the spots people can easily see and use, do you think it is possible to increase the usage of the installments if the communities are being educated from different aspects such as health or fitness? Q2. Disciplines: It is obvious that the discipline of designing a building/cite has to be changed after the examining the human behavior. However, if nobody ever does research on certain topic such as obesity, does that mean the discipline is appropriate and need not to be altered? Q3. Professions: Since almost all the concern here are either architects or building constructor’s job, could we include industrial designers in the making activity-friendly settings? Q4. Economic production: Although designing an environment that is benefit to people from health aspect is great, do you think people would really appreciate it? Wouldn’t people care more about the time rather than doing exercise? (Stairs vs. elevators) If so, why would the owner spend the money on such design? Photography 9-19The speaker of this lecture came to talk about the documentary she made for Atlantic Steel. (Now Atlantic Station) She presented this by showing a video of the destruction of the steel factory and numerous pictures she took since 1999 while the destruction and construction were going on. She was not involved in any of the demolition group or design team; she was a documentary photographer that recorded the re-define process. In this lecture, one of her main focus was on “history and memory.” She argues why it is important for people to preserve the history. I sensed that she was not fond with this “new modernism” process when she defined new modernism as “the practice of sweeping away the existing world and building something perceived to be better.” However, I felt that she was somehow being subjective since the reasons she presented were not strong enough. (Steel mill or 200 flushing toilets, she said.) Some worth-discussed terms she used were industrialism, vernacular, macro engineering, modernism, and agri-business.As I said earlier, she defined modernism as “the practice of sweeping away the existing world and building something perceived to be better.” Before I even looked up the word, I would still disagree with her definition. I believe modernism is not necessary bad and re-defining an old cite could actually be beneficial to the society. A definition I found was “the general trend in the methods, styles, and philosophy of artists involving a break with the traditions of the past and a search for new modes of expression. “ (http://method.vtheatre.net/dict.html) Since the world is always changing, the environment has to change with time. I thought vernacular means taking materials from the site and use them to construct a building. When I looked it up, it’s defined as “The traditional architecture of a region, frequently developed in response to the climate, land conditions, or culture of a region.” She used this word to describe how the shopping district recalls the old mill and warehouses. I guess she is referring to how the old mill is literally taken into the design of the new building. Another interesting word she mentioned was industrialism. She compared the re-defined-Atlantic-mill to industrialism, which she defined as “rebelling against revivalist trends as a throw back to the past and searching for a new streamlined architecture that spoke of an optimistic technological future.” I think she sort of link this with modernism, except that there is no negative aspect in industrialism. Q1. Teaching/Learning: Do you think it is necessary for industrial designers to understand the history of a site? If so, how could they benefit from it? Q2. Disciplines: During the whole process of documenting, what are the most interesting disciplines you saw the team presented during the demolition/construction? Q3. Professions: Would you recommend having a documentary photographer when construct every single building? If so, is it really necessary? If not, what is the criterion that is based on to have one or not? Q4. Economic production: Maybe I am wrong, but I somehow felt that you do not appreciate the fact they are re-defining the site. Do you not think it is necessary to re-define a place if doing so could help the economic market? Besides, if old buildings were not torn down, where could we come up with “historical documentary”? The Appeal of Palladio 9-26In this lecture the presenter talked about the Italian architect Palladio. He also focused on how buildings go through time and the changes of landscape design throughout history. He also touched on the relationship between buildings and life style and compared Roman buildings to farm buildings. The relationship between every element within a building was discussed as well. Some of the key terms he mentioned were Palladian architecture, harmony, and visual engagement. Palladian architecture is “a European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). The term "Palladian" normally refers to buildings in a style inspired by Palladio's own work; what is recognized as Palladian architecture today is an evolution of Palladio's original concepts.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladian_architecture) The speaker presented that the main idea of Palladian architecture is “mathematically proportioned.” Harmony was used interestingly in the lecture. He presented the idea of using numbers to plan the plane (or create the harmony) just like using notes to play the “harmony.” I would never think that harmony could be used in any kind of architecture before this lecture. As of visual engagement, it is defined as the way a house is perceived visually. He presented this idea by showing a repeat pattern of one same house with different orders of elements. This actually creates very distinct visual impression when looking at the plane. Q1. Teaching/ learning: Do you think every architect must have been influenced by someone? Is it impossible to come up with something totally original? Q2.Disciplines: Do you think that Palladio’s architecture design could influence the industrial design field? If so, in what way? Q3. Professions: What make Palladio so special to be studied? Isn’t there a lot more famous architects in this professtion? Q4. Economic production: Most of the buildings to me seems to be high-cost. Do you think a civilian would be interested in this kind of design? A Multi-disciplinary approach to disability researchPart One:This lecturer came to talk about people in different professions, and hence the idea of “multi-disciplinary”, work together to produce items for people with disability. He started with a general definition of disability and then introduced some items in modern days to explain what “Assistive Technology” is. He also addressed some barriers researchers as well as the users might face when producing/using a product. Some of the important words he said are “disability, Assistive Technology, universal design appeal, and usability.Part Two:* DisabilityWhen I first thought of the word “disability”, I only thought about physical impairment that one can easily identify such as paralyzed. When I looked the word up, it is defined by Federal law as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits or restricts the condition, manner, or duration under which an average person in the population can perform a major life activity, such as walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, working, or taking care of oneself.” * Assistive Technology I did now know what assistive technology was before this lecture. However, I would think it was some kind of technology that helps people in some ways. I looked up on-line and it is defined as “any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially or off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.” (http://www.buffalostate.edu/offices/disabilityservices/glossary.htm) When designing assistive technology, it is important to know is it designed for universal usage or is it target on specific groups of people. One can create a suitable item only when he/she knows whom its future users might be. * Usability Before looking up, I would say usability is the feasibility of one product for its users. This is pretty close to its definition I found on line. It says usability is “the quality of a system that makes it easy to learn, easy to use, and encourages the user to regard the system as a positive help in getting the job done.” (www.georgetown.edu/uis/ia/dw/GLOSSARY0816.html) Despite how fancy a designer’s idea is, if the usability is low, there is no reason for the product to be made. It is the final yet the most important stage when an assistive technology is designed. Part Three:* Which field would you say that have more effects over the other on producing a product, the designers or the engineers? How would you tell someone that is a designer or an engineer to work with the other?* Based on you past experience, what obstacles do you think is the hardest to overcome? Why? How did you finally conquer it? * What do you think of “human technology”? Do you think “Assistive Technology” is a product of human technology? * Has the economic market affected your way of making a product? Would you change your method of producing one object due to the pressure of the market, if at all? AEC Integration-A View from the CenterPart One:AEC stands for Architecture, Engineer Construction-A View from the CenterThis lecture was about the integration between architecture fields and engineering fields. The lecturer started by explaining the construction industry. He also looked at some industry established in the history and compared it to the modern industry. The reasons to integrate and the barriers to integration were also addressed. Some of the important terms he mentioned are integration, industry sectors, collaboration, and PPP(public private partnership). Part Two:* Integration:Generally integration refers to the process of combining and how one field takes on the good of the others and makes the whole party better. In this lecture, it is specifically referring to the integration of architecture and engineers. Integration is important because it is what makes the industry as a whole. * Collaboration: Somewhat similar to integration, collaboration is the cooperation between two or more participants. Collaboration is just as much important as integration. A party cannot be integrated if there is no collaboration, therefore the better whole would not be formed. * Public Private Partnership I would think public private partnership is the collaboration between public parties and private parties. In my research, I found that PPP is “a variation of privatization in which elements of a service previously run solely by the public sector are provided through a partnership between the government and one or more private sector companies.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_private_partnership) I think PPP is also significant in AEC integration because both private and public parties have different goals as they were doing a project or a research. With different goals, they are more likely to work out the best for each other. Part Three:* Would this be a good field to explore for industrial designers since the lecture was mostly focus on either buildings or civil infrastructure which are most engineers’ work?* How do you find the balance point between owners, general contractors, and designers? Do you seem to lean toward any sides of them ? * What is the hardest barrier to overcome when integrate with different fields other than your own? * Do you think the market/customer care if the job is integrated or not as long as they’ve got what they wanted? Geographic Information Systems: Whenever Where MattersPart One:This lecture was about the role Geographic Information Systems play in our lives. The presenter used a lot of charts and images to show to what extend GIS are used and how they have helped in the society. Some important terms he mentioned includes GIS, converging technologies, urban planning, sensors, and visualization.Part Two:* Geographic Info SystemsI would think Geographic Info Systems are systems that present geographic information to the users; and this is actually what it is except it also includes the link of mapped objects to information. By using different kinds of GIS, different geographic data can be acquired depends on the needs. This is especially useful nowadays since people are much more eager to control on almost everything. * Converging Technologies: Before this lecture, I would say converging technologies is referring to the combination of different technologies to produce something different and better. In this lecture converging technologies is referring to the use of different technologies to achieve a better outcome. I think this is necessary because this give people more access to the GIS. (like internet) * Visualization: I would say visualization is using visual aids to present something. I looked up on-line and it is defined as “An external representation that makes it easy to see certain patterns in data.” The idea of visualization is well presented in this lecture as the presenter showed many images produced by using GIS systems. We saw how an image was produced by combining different layers of images. By doing so, we can always see either only part of the information or the whole depends on our needs. Part Three:* What aspect of the existing GIS do you think is still needing some change? Why?* Since GIS has helped in planning designs so much, what would you think the differences would be if one is asked to do a design without the help of GIS? How would you tell him/her to carry out the planning? * How could GIS be helpful on teaching architecture courses? * Do you think GIS could, or had, helped our economic market? If so, in what way? If not, how could it be made to do so? cadcamPart one:cadcam stands for Computer Aided Design Computer Aided Manufacturing. In this lecture, the speaker focused on the relationship between design and how the making process might affect design itself. The author started with comparing the design process in 20th century to 21st century. He showed slides of pictures on the process of making installments and talked about how materials could influence the design. Some of the important terms are local vs. global, unitized vs. stick frame, closure, parametric Part two: * Global manipulation means how changing just parts of a project would affect the entire process. * Parametric refers to a system that is created in order to facilitate the process of making specific project. Part three: * How do parametric modulations affect your design? Do you think about parametric modulation before you started a design or the other way around? *If without all the modern technology, how would that affect your design? *How would you direct someone to construct an efficient parametric? Solar DecathlonPart one:This lecture was about GA Tech’s entry in the “zero energy home” competition. The lecturer focused his lecture on the process of making the house and how they should design/create a competitive house under limited funds/time. He also talked about how different material they used would contribute to the idea of solar powered. Some of the important terms he mentioned are coordination and integration, collaboration vs. isolation. Part two: * coordination and integration refer to how different parts of a project come together and support the others to form a whole. * collaboration means people in different professions with different skills gather together to work on the same project. Part three: * What do you think the differences would be to make a solar powered home instead of a general house. * How does your CFY studio experience contribute when doing this project? * What aspect of CFY studio do you think is necessary to be reconsider? Classical Design/ArchitecturePart one:Seven representatives from different architecture companies presented their works in classical design and talked about classical architecture in modern society. They showed slides of pictures of the houses/design they have done. Some of the important terms they mentioned including traditional vs. classical architecture, urbanism, and “green design.”(not sure what the correct word was) Part two: * “green design” is the idea of taking the old material of a house and adding new concept to it to make it new again. * traditional architecture (TND-traditional neighborhood development) is a basic unit of the New Urbanism. TND includes a public space for people in that community to gather together. Part three: * When doing classical design, what aspect is the most important in your opinion, and why would you say so? * How is designing classical architecture different from designing general architecture? * Is it necessary to divide architecture design into classical and traditional? Don’t you think it would be better if they can be integrated with each other? Description: The installment outside of the architecture building is made of transparent plastic board. The plastic boards are connected by screws at their joint points. The whole installment started out as a stack of plastic boards on concrete floor. This brings out the idea of the simplicity it has initially like the form of concrete. The installment’s volume increased and changed into a curved and more complex shape on brick floor. This can actually be seen as the complexity which brick floor possesses. The changing of the sunlight makes reflection on the plastic board and makes the installment looks like one of those spittle bubbles spittle bugs make. The creator of this probably got the motivation from this. When looking the installment from further distance, it looks more like liquid-foam instead of actual hard plastic. Looking at the whole installment from a profile view, it turns into a leaf shape. This brings the idea of nature, or life.
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