Category: Students

Assignment 2 – Cynthia San

Throughout the site, the varying qualities of the built topography and its materiality strongly suggests direct movement of rainwater towards drains.

The ground slightly dips and rises depending on its adjacencies to built forms and infrastructure. I observed how the narrow indented spaces between tile pieces created little streams as water accumulated, while the tiles themselves created stiller puddles. This relationship of the “in-between” and the built form can be seen at a multitude of scales and starts to question the holistic system of urban design.

1:200 on 36″ x 36″ artboards

Assignment 1 – Kaitlin Manuelpillai

This assignment focuses on Hikkaduwa, a beach town in my home country Sri Lanka. The small town is full of vibrant people, environments, music and ruled by the power of the ocean that surrounds it. Days here are spent swimming in the water, surfing, drinking coconuts and exploring the local environment. Focusing on the element of sound in my site plan – the loud, calming sounds of waves crashing on the beach are constant, while the cacophony from ongoing traffic of tuk-tuks and buses pose an interesting juxtaposition from the tranquil ocean.

blogs.ubc.ca/…les/2023/09/site-plan-1.pdf

Adam Larsen – Assignment 01: Home Ground

This site plan is set on the corner of Dugas and Seventh in my home town of Dawson City, Yukon Territory. It felt important to reference my childhood spent here, so the houses are playfully hand drawn (my own in blue), the trees are LEGO toys, and the cars are Hot Wheels. Dawson was a secluded place where we depended on meat we hunted for, and shared with our neighbors. Dotted throughout the plan are deer, moose, and some black bears.

 

My neighborhood plan is intended to showcase more characteristics of Dawson such as dirt roads, spaced apart houses, and autumnal bright yellow birch trees that are characteristic of the Yukon.

The final city plan of Dawson focuses more on it’s history. In the bottom right are rows of people who flocked to the city in the late 19th century for the famous Klondike Gold Rush. Part of the trek to get to Dawson was through the Chilkoot Pass, a mountain passage that colonists reached by the coast of Alaska. Portions of the trail were so treacherous, that many horses died on the journey.

A1 – Arevik Petrosyan

I looked at an intersection that is located adjacent to an elementary school near the house I grew up in. The neighborhood, like many in Calgary, is not very walkable. On weekdays before school, and after students are dismissed, there is a lot of congestion on this specific intersection and it doesn’t seem like the safest situation to have kids running around in every day.

Excluding the highway, the map below shows the approximate area that can be reached within a 15 minute walk of that intersection, which includes four schools located on the perimeter of a loop created by the two larger roads in the neighborhood. This area includes a handful of bus stops, a gas station, a church, and a lot of single family homes. During the morning school rush the two main roads become incredibly congested and it is nearly impossible to leave this area.

This is a mental map of Calgary and its surroundings. Anything directly adjacent to the train tracks can be reached by the LRT line I live near. I grew up in the “Deep Suburbs” in the South West, and don’t really drive on my own, so my knowledge of what exists in this city is limited to what can be reached by transit in an hour (1h 30 max). As a primarily transit commuter, more than half of this city is entirely unfamiliar to me despite living here for my entire life.

Spam prevention powered by Akismet