School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), University of British Columbia
For these visuals, I walked around the neighbourhood and took pictures of the various paving materials. The second visual is a rethinking of the location of where the paving would typically go within the community, using tiles on the building façade, and using the boardwalk elements and rocks as the entrance pathway. One of the houses in the neighbourhood is the base for the visual.
In the collage, the two smells that had the strongest scent, or smells that I picked out most easily were the familiar smell of the ocean and the smell of the cedar log. Both of these smells seemed to waft through the air, whereas the other smells required me to get up closer to get the full extent of their pungent odour, which I found to be somewhat unpleasant.
For this assignment, I walked along 4th Ave and tracked the smells that I experienced. I started off with a description and then visualized them after, with the size of the smells reflecting the intensity of the smell.
The idea behind this glass is that the front of it would act as a magnifying glass, magnifying the liquid within it and making it appear as though the glass is much fuller than it already is. To ensure that users would view the liquid through the front, the back of the glass would be shaped with finger grips and a handle to slot their hand through.
For this assignment, I chose to analyze the sounds from within the Landscape Annex. I sat at first just listening and a pattern of sounds emerged, and I began to draw these sounds linearly, as they occur in time. I also wanted to represent how certain sounds drowned out others, with the crossing over of lines. At first, the space seemed reasonably quiet, but the more I listened, the more I began to pick up on all the different noises occurring. When doing this assignment, there were me and two others in the building. At its quietest, the clicking of the keyboard was the steady noise governing the space. But every so often, a car would drive by outside and then beep a few times as it was backing up. I then picked up on children outside playing. The first sound I would pick up was a shriek and then a bit of chatter afterwards. When someone got up and walked to the door within the space, that sound was much louder, with the clicking and slamming of the door when leaving the room.
Here is an attempt to show the same sounds in a more quantified way.
Potential wind instrument using items at home.
While in Robson Square, a few different things stood out to me in regards to materiality. The first was the lack of permeable ground material, with the two outlined areas in the collage being of the few examples of permeable/semi-permeable areas. While some of the users/activities within Robson bring colour and vibrancy into the space, the space itself lacks built-in colour as it is primarily composed of concrete and asphalt materials. It also seems to be inaccessible or perhaps not fully inclusive to all users as many benches did not have adequate backing and would not be comfortable for any prolonged periods of sitting. Similarly, there were a great number of stairs on the site, preventing full accessibility to all.
This mapping exercise was completed on a Saturday morning as I watched the movement across the street from my apartment. The lines for the movement of the dogs vary in thickness depending on the speed at which they moved, with the thicker ones moving the quickest. The pedestrian movement was not mapped as this morning the great majority of pedestrians were either on bikes or with their dogs.
For the last drawing, I switched from paper and pen to tablet and found that I truly had the time to focus on the scale of the geometries, and was able to erase lines as well. The first five minutes of the drawing were focused on the geometry and relationship of scale and then I was able to go ahead and create more detail within the drawing.
In this assignment, I explored my movement through my apartment. I noticed the difference in stride length from when I approach my apartment in contrast with my shuffling/sliding movements within my apartment. I also found a few similar patterns and habits I have created in how I move around my space- one being the grabbing of the wall each time I pass around the corner into the hallway, and another the way I rotate and step up from my dining table.