Individual – Delivery Time 1 Week
In this assignment, students will observe & record open space and built form.
Objective: Practice your ability to critically interpret and view a site through a variety of tools and methods. Capture the flow of information at all levels of a site (below, on, above – around).
Process:
- Visit, investigate, observe, and draw a given site at UBC at a 1:200 scale. Include buildings, open space, and elements for scale comparison, such as a car.
- Study and draw the infrastructure of the site (e.g., electricity, water, gas, internet, roads) using the “Cube” method to investigate, observe and record. See https://blogs.ubc.ca/axonometric/.
Deliverables*:
- 1:200 Site Plan & Section
- Cube axonometric demonstrating your understanding of the cube method
- Photography/Collage documenting your site visit
Ensure the scale of your drawing is clear. Include a scale bar and north arrow when appropriate. The deliverables can be drawn analog, digitally or as a combination of both.
Please submit your work to the blog by Tuesday, September 19th at 11:59 pm.
* In general, the number of deliverables is flexible for this course. We encourage students to make their own decision about what drawings are needed; the deliverables are a suggestion. For example, students may wish to alter the scale or add additional drawings to explain their observations.
References:
Required:
City Protocol [cityprotocol]. (2013, July 17). City Protocol – anatomy of city habitat [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_sNEfzvVY
Lehrman, B. (2018). Visualizing water infrastructure with Sankey maps: A case study of mapping the Los Angeles Aqueduct, California. Journal of Maps, 14(1), 52–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2018.1473815
TED Conferences [TED]. (2017, November 30). The biggest risks facing cities – and some solutions | Robert Muggah [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5QitqbxJw
Recommended:
Salazar Miranda, A., Fan, Z., Duarte, F., & Ratti, C. (2021). Desirable streets: Using deviations in pedestrian trajectories to measure the value of the built environment. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 86, 101563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2020.101563
- Explore the online tool here: https://senseable.mit.edu/desirable-streets/
- Also check out: https://streetmix.net
DES430 2022 Student Examples:
Bea Benidy: https://blogs.ubc.ca/des430x2022w1/2022/09/20/assignment-02-bea-benidy/
Ghazal Torkamaniha: https://blogs.ubc.ca/des430x2022w1/2022/09/20/a2-ghazal-torkamaniha/