Dr. S.Y.S Ting Barriers

We have made great progress this week! This Tuesday, our group went to the garden and met with our client Claudette again with our preferred design. She said that she would take it to the architect to get it approved, so that we can use our design for calculations and documentation. This is a huge […]

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After a relaxing reading break last week, our team has managed to schedule a meeting with our client on Tuesday, March 6. During this meeting, we are hoping to finalize the design with the Operations Manager as well as the Executive Director of the Garden, who will ensure that our design is appropriate and “Ming”. […]

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Over the Reading Break, we received word from Claudette that she would like to meet us at the Gardens on Monday, March 5th to get approval from the executive director of the gardens and the architect, so as to finalize the design. As this changes our plans (we had planned to complete construction over the […]

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During Monday’s meeting, our team decided that it would be best to start building the Ting barriers over reading week. Our client has seen our designs and she seems very happy with them (as are we), we are now waiting for the approval from the executive director of the gardens. As a reminder, our favourite […]

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This week our group decided to get some measurements in the garden, this is one of the most important part of our design. After we obtain these data, we can decide which materials that we are going to use, and how much of the materials that we need. In addition, how we can get these […]

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Since our project is designing barriers which must be compatible with Ming Dynasty Garden architecture, design and appearance, here is an explanation of features of Ming Dynasty Gardens.   The gardens in Ming Dynasty are the most outstanding representatives of Chinese gardens. Many of the gardens are designed by the famous literati and painters with […]

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The following are the drawings the team made to both analyze and brainstorm for the final design of the Ting Barriers, more details are in the captions and descriptions of the photos:

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Before coming up with our final design, we decided it was best to know a little history of the Ming Dynasty and our garden itself. Here we have posted what we found for you all to read: The Ming Dynasty, who came to power after the fall of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty, ruled China from […]

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As the first blog post, we would like provide some background information regarding our CIVL 202 CSL Project as well as formally introduce our team to you.   What is our project?   The organization that we will be working with is the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Garden, located in Chinatown. We are assigned […]

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You can chronicle your CSL team’s weekly accomplishments as you move toward the successful completion of your project.

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