Mahera

=Welcome to Mahera's page. I hope you like my park and enjoy going through this Wikispace!=




 * Note:** The Report with the Dimensions and Areas is completed but is not on the wikispace.

Dear respected council member, Mont’Kiara is a great locality and adding a park to it would only make it better. The people living at Mont Kiara are mainly from abroad and they look for something different and unique in public parks. For this reason I will provide you with a park design like no other…one that will meet everyone’s needs. When I think of a park, the first thing that comes to //my// mind is security and safety. The mothers of young children will at no cost leave their children alone in a 2,925m playground! In this park, they won’t have to! The playground, in this park, consists of a “Parent watching area”, where parents can keep and eye on their little ones. My playground has things to entertain children off all age groups. For instance, it has swings, see-saws, sand pits and even an ice-cream parlor for young children. But, not to worry, we have a big pool for our big kids to work on their fitness. Lastly, this particular feature in my playground is for //everyone//. The world’s longest slide! Yes, you heard right; this park consists of the worlds longest slide, a feature that will attract a lot of tourist! Coming to the Picnic area, well the only thing I can say is “Calling all animal lovers”! The picnic area consists of an animal enclosure, where people can safely feed and take care of animals. And for those of you who are patient we have our bird watching area, where one can view the most beautiful birds! Our picnic area would be incomplete without benches where people can sit and admire our beautiful flower garden and pond. Whenever anyone gets hungry, they can come to the lower part of my park and experience the best Western cuisine in our Food Court. The climate in Malaysia is very hot and being in a cooler environment would be much more relaxing! For that reason, my park design has one rectangular and one circular pond. Like I have mentioned earlier, the people living in Mont Kiara are looking for uniqueness in parks and the Gardening School in //my// park clearly passes //that// test. Here people of all age groups can learn how to take care of their wonderful plants and can even purchase some for their friends and family. The following feature in my park will take its level from average to way above average! A driving range! Just imagine: exercise, food, fun and beauty all in one. Hard to believe…believe it! By agreeing to this plan, you can make this mixture of activities into Heaven on Earth for the people living in Mont Kiara.
 * Persuasive Letter**

With warm regards (and high hopes!), Mahera


 * Reflection**

//**How has your understanding of access to public spaces been changed by your experience of trying to access the Upper Field by wheelchair?**// I personally did not try to access the Upper Field using a wheelchair, but from what I heard from my fellow classmates…it was //not// an easy job! Before this experiment, I did not feel so strongly about this matter, but //now// it’s a whole different story. I feel that this was not fair, as people who cannot walk properly should not face any disadvantages when trying to access parks. If people with disabilities face problems with accessing //public parks//, then imagine how many problems they will face when they are trying to access //shopping malls// or //restaurants//! For this reason, //ALL// the entrances to my park are flat surfaced and the //only// feature of my park that involves steps is the Driving Range. This is because usually people with walking disabilities would not play golf.

//**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?**// I have learned a great deal during this project that I am sure I won’t forget fast. Just learning about Macromedia Freehand was really important as without that we wouldn’t be able to draw our park plan! Learning about Macromedia Freehand could also help us in future projects as it is a very creative way to show your work. Also, finding the dimensions of everything on our park plan was very useful to us. This is because; finding the dimensions of various shapes would brush-up our knowledge about what we learned in CAS.

//**What suggestions can you make for improving the process for next year’s students?**// The only thing that I think should be changed is the scale of the plan. I started my park with a scale of 5x5 and later on realized that this scale was too big. However, at that point of my project, it was not possible to change my scale from 5x5 to 2x2. Although a scale of 2x2 is smaller than that of 5x5…it is still too big. For this reason, I feel that for next year’s students that scale should be reduced to 1x1 as it is very easy to visualize the shape you are creating.

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