Kay+Lynn+&+Gabriela

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=By Kay Lynn and Gabriela=



Mathsland Community Planning Committee, 2424 Thinking Street 8888 CAS Street May 22nd, 2007

Dear Planning Committee,

Our design is a rather simple design. I would describe it as very neighborly and child friendly. Gabriela and I have created a plan of a park of how we would plan the park at the Mont’ Kiara area. The following tell you what our park consist of and why we want to put in our park:


 * Play ground- places for children to play
 * Fountain- enjoy sitting down with close ones talking as you hear the calming noise of water
 * Picnic tables-Hungry? Picnics are a great way to enjoy a meal
 * A pathway- take a safe stroll down our quiet pathway
 * Recycling bins- SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT that’s what were trying to make you do
 * Untouched tree area- trees play an important role in nature that why these trees are not to be touched
 * A flower bed- these flowerbeds are near the pathway. Walk as you smell a fresh scent
 * Water fountains- Need to fill your water bottle? Thirsty? This is the perfect place to visit.
 * An irregular shaped pond- who wouldn’t want to feed fish!
 * Toilets- badly needs to go. Here’s the RIGHT place to go
 * Cycling path- Here you can cycle and if you are with friends you can do races.Buggy cars (to transport people)- incase if people don’t want to walk they can use the buggy cars to transfer themselves form one place to another
 * Car park- where would you park cars?

For all these reasons I gave you, You might want to vote for our park or maybe change your vote. I will assure you that this park will go above and beyond your expectations.

Sincerely, Gabriela and Kay Lynn

=Reflections=

My experience has changed because when I try going to the upper field but there are stairs so you can’t go in a wheel chair. You can’t carry a wheel chair like you can with a normal chair because it is much heavier and it has a person on it. All public places must have a kind of ramp for the wheel chair to go or not have steps at all. Kay Lynn and I decided to do no steps for the people with wheel chair.
 * How has your understanding of access to public spaces been changed by your experience of trying to access the Upper Field by wheelchair?**

I have learned a lot of things while designing the park. Kay Lynn and I decided each square or unit to be 2 meter wide and 2 meters long. This helped a lot with the dimensions. Eg. We made a table one square which you multiply by two and its 2 meters. All our shapes we multiply it by 2 and if the answer was really big and not normal we would make it the right size.
 * What have you learned about the process when designing the park? Eg, how did you manage to convert real dimensions to grid dimensions and vice versa?**

For the students next year; they should learn a little about scales and dimension’s size. Kay Lynn and I didn’t know this and we had to re-do it because it was extremely humongous. I think that’s the only thing that needs to be changed or done differently.
 * What suggestions can you make for improving the process for next year’s students?**

by Gabriela

__**How has your understanding of access to public spaces been changed by your experience of trying to access the Upper field by wheel chair?**__

By experiencing how hard it is to bring a person in a wheel chair is pretty tough. A wheel chair is very hard to get to the upper field because in order to transport a wheel chair with a person in it will require special transportation. I think that all public places should have ramps or flat escalators to transport people on wheelchairs.

__**What have you learned about the process when designing the park? Eg, How did you manage to convert real dimensions to grid dimensions and visa versa?**__

When I was designing the park I learned that each item that you have on the park must be “to scale”. For example if one square is five meters you cant have four squares to make up a bench because then the bench will be twenty meters long. I also learned that you should place in useful facilities because it will be more convenient for people.

__**What suggestions can you make for improving the process for next year’s students?**__

I would like to make one suggestions for next year students. First, I think we should learn a little more about what is scale and how we are going to use it in the grid. From my experience Gabriela and I didn’t know that we were suppose to size it to scale. We had to start the park all over again and it took us a long time to finish.

By Kay Lynn

__REPORT__
__Scale: **1 unit= 2 meters**__ Letter Facility Formula Dimensions Area A A Sidewalk L x w 30 x 2 60cm2 B B Sidewalk L x w 30 x 2 30cm2 C C Sidewalk L x w 10 x 2 20cm2 D Flower Garden B x h / 2 4.5x 4 / 2 9cm2 E Picnic Table L x w 2 x 2 4cm2 F Each yard section L x w 15 x 10.5 157.5cm2 G Toilet L x w 2x2 4cm2 H Fountain L x w 4x4 16cm2 I Pond B x h / 2 4 x 6 / 2 12cm2 J Car Park L x w 18 x 8 144cm2 K Store Top R x R x π 1 x 1 x π πcm2 L Slide Top R x R x π 1 x 1 x π πcm2 M Cycling Area Irregular shape No dimensions 6cm2 N Tree Area L x w 20.5 x 6 123cm2 O Water Fountain L x w 1 x 2 2cm2 P Monkey Bars L x w 1 x 1 1cm2 Q Circle Spin R x R x π 0.5 x 0.5 x π πcm2 R Trash Can R x R x π 0.5 x 0.5 x π πcm2 S Circle Playground R x R x π 0.2 x 0.2 x π 0.1256cm2 T Sand Box L x w 1 x 1 1 cm2 U Buggy Cars L x w 0.75 x 0.75 0.5625cm2 V Tree R x R x π 0.5 x 0.5 x π πcm2


 * __LEGEND__**

L Length w Width B Base h Height R Radius π Pi=3.14 / Divide x Multiply