School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), University of British Columbia
IN CLASS AND AT HOME
During the class trip to the Bill Reid Gallery, I started drawing the courtyard in cathedral place. I tried to show above and below ground built elements and also surrounding building context.
In the following imagine, I wanted to show the planting in the courtyard and adjacent water feature, and how they realte to Burrard Street.
At home – 
I noticed the drainage system from the roof of the nest is poorly designed. This portion of the wall is pitched, so any rain that hits it creates a waterfall at the bottom that you have to walk through if you want to get into the building. There’s drainage directly underneath it, so I guess they anticipated that there would be a lot of water coming down in this exact spot, and then didn’t fix the pretty obvious issue?
Above, At and Below of a Tennis Court
IN PROGRESS
In Class exercise: Beaty Biodiversity Museum
This overall plan of the museum and courtyard shows movement patterns of people (blue lines) and air movement through the courtyard.
Using the cube method to draw and describe the museum gives a better understanding of the space, and allows sight into the blow-ground level of the museum which is hidden to pedestrians.
At-home exercise: redesigning views
While analyzing the environment outside the museum and in the courtyard, I had no idea that there was a whole museum space underground. I also didn’t see the hanging whale skeleton until almost right up to the glass. Walking into the museum was an interesting phenomenon as there is so much more to the building than what is above ground, which I assume is placed so that the artifacts don’t degrade in UV light from the sun. However, I can see why the museum might not get many passerby visitors as there is no visual cue that there is anything of this size going on underground.
Here I’ve proposed a repositioning of the hale skeleton, start well above ground and be ‘diving’ down into the museum. This way it is more visible from pedestrians and those lounging in the courtyard. This will hopefully give the idea that there is more going on underground than what is first seen, and attract people into the space.
