Vanessa+&+Haruka




 * ~ CAS Park Project By Haruka and Vanessa ~*


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Scale: 1 grid unit to 2 meters Legend:
 * Shape: Object || Length/Height (m) || Width/Base (m) || Radius (m) || Formulae ||
 * A: Picnic Table || - || - || 1 || A(o)=π r squared=π 2 squared=12.56m ||
 * B: Bench || 2 || 1 || - || A(square)=l x w 2 x 1=2 m squared ||
 * C: Triangular Flower Bed || 4 || 4 || - || A(∆)=b x h ÷ 2 4 x 4 divided by 2=8 m squared ||
 * D: Tree || - || - || 2 || A(o) =pi r squared=pi 2 x 2=12.56 m squared ||
 * E: Sandbox || 4 || 4 || - || A(square)=l x w 4 x 4=16 m squared ||
 * F: Platform for Slide || 2 || 2 || - || A(square)=l x w 2 x 2=4 m squared ||
 * G: Slide || ? || 1 || - || (No formula included) ||
 * H: Bridge || 4 || 6 || - || A(square)=l x w 4 x 6=24 m squared ||
 * I: River || 32 || 2 || - || A(square)=l x w 32 x 2=64 m squared ||
 * J: Lake || - || - || 3 || A(o) =pi r squared=pi 3 x 3=28.26 m squared ||
 * K: Swings || 4 || 1 || - || A(square)=l x w 4 x 1=4 m squared ||
 * L: Flower garden || 10 || 4 || - || A(square)=l x w 10 x 4=40 m squared ||
 * M: Water shooter || - || - || 1 || A(o) =pi r squared=pi 1 x 1=3.14 m squared ||
 * N: Surrounding of Water Fountain || - || - || 3 || A(o) =pi r squared=pi 3 x 3=28.26 m squared ||
 * O: Outline of Water Fountain || - || - || 10 || A(o) =pi r squared=pi 10 x 10=314 m squared ||
 * P: Monkey Bars || 6 || 2 || - || A(square)=l x w 6 x 2 = 12 m squared ||
 * Q: Trees (smaller) || - || - || 1 || A(o) = pi r squared=pi 1 x 1=3.14 m squared ||
 * R: Wheelchair Access || 8 || 4 || - || A(square)=l x w 8 x 4 = 32 m squared ||
 * S: Staircase || 4 || 10 || - || A(square)=l x w 4 x 10 = 40 m squared ||
 * T: Flying Fox || 1 || 6 || - || A(square)=l x w 1 x 6 = 6 m squared ||
 * U: Ramp || 3 || 6 || - || A(square)=l x w 3 x 6 = 18 m squared ||
 * V: Mini-car Rent house || 8 || 6 || - || A(square)=l x w 8 x 6 = 48 m squared ||
 * W: Toilet || 4 || 2 || - || A(square)=l x w 4 x 2 = 8 m squared ||


 * Persuasive Letter**

8, JLN BU 15/8 Constellation Road 603 Messier 101 #7 Haruka and Vanessa

12, JLN BU 42/5, Constellation Road 805 Milky Way Galaxy #4 Mathsland Planning Committee

Dear Mathsland Park Planning, Allow Haruka and myself to introduce our park design that we have been working on for the past week. As you can see, it contains many places to relax, enjoy, and have fun, such as the mini car transportation around the park, and the mini flying fox located in the playground. I am convinced you should pick our park plan, as it contains many characteristics that will make your visit to the park a splendid one. Here are some of these characteristics:


 * A fountain in the ground (It shoots out water from the ground and children can play there)
 * A little lake in the middle of the park (To swim in)
 * Large gardens to walk around in and to enjoy the aroma
 * Ramps for disabled people
 * A large tree in the center of the picnic area (To provide shade for people picnicking on the floor)
 * A play ground for little children to play

This park design is a promising one; we can assure you of that. Kindly look over the design and our proposal. You won’t regret it!

Yours, very sincerely,

Haruka and Vanessa


 * Self-Knowledge**: //**Reflective journals**//

By Haruka How has your understanding of access to public spaces been changed by your experience of trying to access the Upper Field by wheelchair?

I thought that it was really hard to access the Upper Field by wheelchair because there was no ramps and were too many stairs. This experience was really helpful because now we have a plan that has lots of ramps and we even decided to put a mini car rental house for people with wheel chairs to go around the park with. We also made lots of benches so people can rest when they are tired.

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 learned that you have to think very general and logically when you scale down things. For example we first made our plan in scale of 5 meters for each square. Then we made a table of 3 squares wide and 2 squares long which would be 15 meters wide and 10 meters long. We weren't thinking generally and our table, benches, and other equipments became REALLY big.

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

I can suggest that get it planned more so it won't have so many technical problems like we had. We couldn't export our plan we did in Macromedia Freehand so we couldn't upload our plan (sorry it will be coming soon). Also, do a lesson on scales and areas of circles because some people got really confused.


 * Reflection**

How has your understanding of access to public spaces been changed by your experience of trying to access the courtyard by wheelchair? (I went to the courtyard instead of field)

My understanding of access to public spaces has changed because it took quite a long time to access the courtyard on wheelchair. Even though there was a ramp, you had to go around to access the courtyard, as the stairs were a faster way. They should have ramps along side staircases so it would be easier and it would be faster.

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 learned that you have to take care while designing the park and what scales you want to use. Haruka and I had to redo the whole park because we had used a scale of five meters, which made every thing humongous. We started again with a scale of two meters, which made it much easier.

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

I suggest that the students should learn a little more about scales and dimensions so they won’t come to the same mix – up as some people in our class did. Otherwise, I think it is fine.

Reflection by Vanessa