Wecome to my world

about the Presentation which was talking about Dubai. let me evaluate the presentation in terms of 3 criteria like last week. 1st Their topic's creativity 2nd Information 3rd Design of their portfolio, In conclusion, They've got really good portfolio as well as research.

- My Analysis?

1. topic
there topic's creativity. Their goal was developing nationsworldwide. and focused on dubai. I think That was so creative. I think the topic was related to the goal, developing nationsworldwide very well and architecture. Thru their presentation, I could understand the reason why they chose Dubai as the objective of their research which is that Dubai's plan to utilize other coutries and firms technology to be one of high-developed cities could be a model or good example for other cities.
And I think its good example.

2, Information.
They researched Dubai's Economy, Education, Tourism, Structure, and Technology which were in detail
It was pretty well organized. Their analysis was Very logical in terms of their Goal, which is developing city. thru their presentation, I noticed they had been participating in term project hard.


* Their presentation *




3, Design.
As you see, they used good pictures and simple explanations which were comprehensive. So the portfolio looked very clear, simple. I believe we don't need to include too much information in portfolio. but do need just very main ideas.
The design looked like kinda book. I dont know what program they utilzed making the portfolio. It was pretty much good as a portfolio.

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As there was only one group presented on this monday, Let't talk about their presentation. Their topic was Goal 7: ensure environmental sustainabiltiy which is as same as ours. I evaluated theirs in terms of 1) the futher idea from actual topic 2) Information 3) designs of their portfolid 4) comprehension.

1) their topic was Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainabilty. and they talked about green roof , bamboo construction and . I was pretty impressed, because they found the relationship between architecture and the goal pretty well.I think that the idea was very creative and amazing. That was really good. Especially green roof and baboo contruction were really really interesting to me.

2)when presenting, they were talking about definitions, examples, and some details of the factors.

3) desgins
They organized their portfolio very well. when i just took a look at it, it was easy to see and understand what they explained, because they had bunch of pictures to illustrate. That was good point. Their design was cool, not putting too much informations but enough paragraphs and pictures. and they didnt fill up all the margin. I can say they used blank, photo, and paragraphs properly. so It looked pretty simple and clear, rather than complex.

4) Comprehension.
About this..well...they seemed to explain pretty well..actually English is not my mothertongue. even though I understood most material they explained, i cannot say whether they explained pretty well or not.

In conclusion, Generally they were really good. Though they were the first group to present, they were too good.

Interesting pictures from their presentation

1.http://www.gardenvisit.com/assets/madge/newyork_roof_gardens_/original/newyork_roof_gardens__original.jpg
2.http://www.roofsystemsconsultants.com/images/TypicalDetail.jpg
3.http://tropist.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/greenroof1.
4.http://www.urbanaddiction.com/archives/bambu18maior.jpg
5.http://www.mauirealestate.com/blog/blogpics/bambootechnologiesweb.jpg

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I'm not sure what's expected by this. but first let me talk about how far we progress with project. Our group members met to discuss where to go from now with our rough outline on Tuesday, this week. we read the comments from TA, Kelly Day carefully. we basically agreed to focus on Factors more considered for naming top green cities in the U.S such as Air quality, Recycling, Electrocity use and production, green design, transportation and so on, rather than cities. (we were actually gonna focus on cities in the U.S.)
so, we are going to look up examples of cities, pictures related to the factors, charts or graphs according to factors. Also because we felt like it was too normal and plain to use MS power point, we basically agreed to apply blog or something other else. Actually we didn't discuss how design for title would be yet. I think we'll talk about it tomorrow, Thursday probably. but I've just made 3 possible title designs through some program. so I'm going to suggest mine when we have next meeting.
I think the cover designs are pretty important when we give presentation. It's kind of face of human. We have to grab people's attention in a short time! so the most important thing of Design for title is how clear it is and how impressive it is by just taking look at it, I believe. so When I made cover design, I was trying to show what we're gonna say by a picture, rather than words. So I chose pictures very carefully. Here you go 3 possible designs.
First.

at this design I want to stress our topic: Ensure environmental sustainability by putting together 2 opposite pictures; one is nature, other is polluted place.

Second,

It looks cool!, simple, clear. I love this one.

Third,

The picture which was used to make this design is pretty nice, I guess. Without any explanation, the picture is including all information that we're gonna talk about. The design looks simple, clear and distinct, I think.

citation.
1. enews.toxicslink.org
2. wikipedia.org
3. www.umanitoba.ca
4. www.spiegel.de
5. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/art.gnome.org/backgrounds/NATURE-SunsetBlissIl

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BLOG PROMPT #5 Explore through image and text how the built environment affects (supports or detracts) who you are. Speculate in terms of frameworks, clockworks, phenomena and oppositions.

Before get started, take a look at some of pictures of built environment.

1. Cappadoccia, Turkey

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/derinkuyu-or-allure-of-underground-city.html

2. Petra, Jordan

http://www.iipt.org/worldpeacetravel/images/lost-city-petra-jordan-big.jpg

3. Meteoro Monastery, Greece

http://picasaweb.google.com/sandhya.sathyan/GreeceMarch200702/photo#5054973657720975682

4. Ouro Preto, Minas, Brazil

http://picasaweb.google.com/NewGardensBand/Postcards02/photo#5088981271186419202

5. Acropolis, Athens, Greece

http://www.theodora.com/wfb/photos/greece/acropolis_athens_greece_ert.jpg

6. CN Tower, Toronto, Canada

7. Dar Seffarine Palace, Fez, Morocco

www.fez-riads.com/Dar_Seffarine

8. Notre Dame de Paris, Paris, France

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/03/400px-NotreDameI.jpg

they're marvelous and amazaing, arent' they?
Let's talk about framework, clockworks, phenomena, opposition
1) framework - what is framework? It's very difficult to define framework. it can be thought as a set of relationships, which is fixed and also systems, rules. In my opinion This is kind of order, procedure that we have to keep in mind.
2) Clockworks - this is a cycle. rotation, circulation. for example, season,
3) Phenomena - this is something happened under framework, clockworks., opposition.
4) opposition - literally this means resistance. everything oppose against something. For example, architecture have to oppose against time, weathering, gravity in order to be permanence.
I think the built environment affect me positively everyday. As you can see through the pictures, these buildings have great frameworks, procedure. rule. so, they look perfect, elaborate. Do you think to build these kind of structure is easy? No way, It may require a great precision, structure, clockworks, phenomena, oppostion. Architecture is not simple study, but complex and practical study. When I first saw this kind of buildings from books or web, I was very much fascinated by architecture. Even though some old buildings were built long time ago, such as church, It still has an impact to me. Even now, It looks so marvelous. How did people build architecture like this? And also modern architectures are marvelous. They are such tall and looks like future buildings, high-technologic. while seeing pictures of architecture, I thougt that I did want to design gorgeous building and learn how to design it. Because I have been fascinated by these architecture, I really want to major in architecture. So due to this, I've got here, university of minnesota!

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[blog prompt #4]
If you were completely released from the constraints of the 'architecture school' program, what would you do arcitecturally, artistically, bodily, lyrically, etc that would still have an impact on your environment. Describe a real or imagined place that might allow you to do this. Explore through images and text!



If I were completely released from the constraints of the 'architecture school' program, I would like to travel every country, every city, every village on the earth, learn through their architecture, feel them. There are extremely a lot of great, fabulous architectures over the world. If you are asked about what architecture is, you may think about only modern, high-technique buildings or great designed skyscrapers. But no, there are also traditional and old houses, buildings. These buildings have long history. Maybe 100 years? 1000years? What I mean by architectures here is these architectures, kind of old and traditional buildings. (Of course, It’s clear that architectures like skyscrapers should be also learned, and they are much important. However what I want to say is that we also have to think about our ancestor’s architectures and understand their importance, because there must be valid reasons to be tradition)

(japaness traditional house)

(Malaysian)

(South Africa " Rondablo")

(Indonesia Sumatra Minankabau)

(korean Han-ok.)

they were developed over long history. In my opinion, they’ve understood ground, climate, people living in them, time around them which means they were changed and developed according to environments. This is architecture that I’ve learned in lecture. That’s why these are quite different each other. And even though they look very old, they were built by ancestor’s wisdom and scientific intelligence. So some of techniques utilized in those building are so effective and good that we are utilizing it still now. Let me give you a good example – Ondol which is literally meaning "warm stone", comprised three main components: a fireplace or stove, which is also used for cooking and located below floor level; a heated floor underlayed by horizontal smoke passages; and a vertical chimney, located lower than the roofline, to provide a draft.

(korean illustrations priciple of Ondol )


The heated floor comprised a network of underground flues that transported heat from the kitchen to each room. These flues were covered by thin, flat, wide stones two or three inches thick called kudul that lay underneath the floor. Kudul, literally meaning "fired stone", was covered with yellow earth, and the floor was leveled. To top it off, several layers of yellow paper sheets were pasted on the floor. This process was efficient since the heat and smoke generated during cooking would be transported automatically to each room in the house. Usually the kitchen would be built at a lower level (about one m), and the heated rooms would be in an elevated position to allow the flues to run underneath. Notably, with just one heating the floors would retain their warmth for extended periods, ranging from more than 30 days to three months depending on the design of the flue structure. It’s very effective system to heat room! That’s why we, koreans are utilizing this still now when we design building.
If we look up other architectures, we would find other great facilites in traditional architectures.
Each country, city, village has their own traditional ways of constructing. There should be worthy reasons to be tradition which are still valid like Ondol. I believe those ways would be very useful now, even future. So If I were released from the constraints of the ‘architecture school’, I would like to study, investigate these buildings over the world by visiting all the traditional building directly and learn forefather's wisdoms, because we may understand their wisdom and intelligence by understanding their architects.

(citation)
Pictures, some information from
1. http://www.bougerolle.net/travel/batak_house_sumatra.jpg
2. www.naver.com/image
3. laist.com/2007/07/30/the_japanese_ga.php
4. encyber.com
5. hwangto.org
6. wikipedia.com

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blog #3
Propose a set of images, quotes and a playlist of songs that influence your values with
regard to your selected Research Project Millenium Development Goals.
Explain.
#7 ensure environmental sustainability

Water is essential for all dimensions of life. Over the past few decades, use of water has increased, and in many places water availability is falling to crisis levels. More than eighty countries, with forty percent of the world’s population, are already facing water shortages, while by year 2020 the world’s population will double. The costs of water infrastructure have risen dramatically. The quality of water in rivers and underground has deteriorated, due to pollution by waste and contaminants from cities, industry and agriculture. Ecosystems are being destroyed, sometimes permanently. Over one billion people lack safe water, and three billion lack sanitation; eighty per cent of infectious diseases are waterborne, killing millions of children each year. (more...)

World Bank Institue
WATER POLICY REFORM PROGRAM - Nov. 1999

More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health and livelihood of people who depend upon them for irrigation, drinking and industrial water

Ismail Serageldin, Chairman of the World Commission on Water for the 21st Century- Water Forum, Netherlands, November 30, 1999

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga
JIM WRIGHT, U.S. Representative, The Coming Water Famine, 1966

If you could tomorrow morning make water clean in the world, you would have done, in one fell swoop, the best thing you could have done for improving human health by improving environmental quality.

WILLIAM C. CLARK, speech, Racine, Wisconsin, April 1988

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvrauCqj86g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pgdchkPo60
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp3eooTJkY4

These are films about environmental sustainability.

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I've been minnesota for one month. when I first arrvied here, what I felt is that it's freaking freezing weather. Even though I've already known Minnesota is one of the coldest cities in the USA, I couldn't imagine how cold it is until I felt firsthand. It has made me stay in my home. but one cold day, I went to downtown minneapolis. There, what I was imppressed is the skyway connecting each architectures on downtown.

Thanks to this skyway, I could go around downtown, go shopping, eat lunch, somthing like that. I think that's social design. I am not sure I do understand what social design means. but In my opinion, social design means somthing designed for society. Skyway has both; social and design. I think it play a big role. It doesnt't exist only for design but also fuction that make buildings accessible.

when I first saw it, I was suprised. they look really good. I felt like the downtown looked very well-balanced and stable. Comparing to chicago (I was in chicago downtown for 7months to study english),I think minneapolis is more fabulous.

minnesota is too chilly city to be active for people. However, skyway could make people be active by protecting them from that cold weather. It is very important.

I believe that skyway in minneapolis downtown is a good example of design.

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his one of arts

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Blog prompt #1
Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy, document and investment through text and image - this idea of energy, flow and transformation through the city.

This is the question that I am supposed to write about. I was embarrassed when I first read this question. I didn’t understand what to write on my blog. Frankly I am sure not I do understand this question well.
Let me say about Andy Goldsworthy. Who is Andy Goldsworthy? He is an artist who makes arts from natural things such as leaves, icicle, mud, rain, rocks, sticks, thorns and flowers. He uses natural materials around him and starts to make his works by his hands and tooth. He’s understood that his works are usually temporary which means most of his fabulous works taking a lot of time are messed up by natural power as tides, winds, time. It seems for him that to complete works is not important. It seems that he doesn’t think it’s important to keep his work permanently. For him, the process seems to be more important. Then, Why, though? Why does he tend to make these kinds of works? Despite of fact that these would be broken soon. What does professor expect me to feel as a student of architecture class from the video?
I was inspired of his arts, because we always pursue perpetual things. In contrast, Andy doesn’t. He attaches importance to the moment of process, time. When I watched the video, I thought why he tried to make these arts which will be messed up. If I were him, I would keep arts permanently. To get an answer, I kept thinking about the reason. Then, I think I’ve got the reason. I feel his works were not messed up but, adapted and changed by nature such as wind, weather, tide, flow. so, they keep changing as it keeps creating a new form after the previous one. We can say that they (his works) are full of life and have power to grow, move and age as every life does. And also I believe that’s what professor wants us to feel, understand and learn from the film.

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