lara+and+willemijn



The park..



The Letter by Willemijn.

Lara and Willemijn Jalan Katak 13 60770 Kuala Lumpur

City Council Somewherstreet 72 1123 Los Angeles

Dear City council,

Lara and I, Willemijn, designed a very "cool" park with a fountain, swimmingpool, swings, flowergarden, and a bar. We think that our park is the "coolest" of all, because we divided our park in four sections, a picnic-section, with benches to picnic, two play-sections with swings, and a party section with a HUGE swimmingpool and a bar. There are also toilets available in one of the play sections. In the middle of the four sections there is a fountain with those pretty patterns. I hope you like our design, and vote for our park!

Kind regards, Lara and Willemijn

Here are the dimensions to our park.........



The Reflection by Willemijn and Lara

=Reflection=

Well, first I did not really think about the wheelchairs and how they could access public spaces. But when I designed the park together with Lara, I was really thinking of how a wheelchair could possibly drive through the whole thing. And even this weekend, when I went to a park, I was like, “How come I do not see any wheelchairs (not that you see them much, but I was just thinking),” so then I went to the entrance of the park, and saw that there were only stairs. So no wheelchair could possibly go in.
 * How has your understanding of access to public spaces been changed by your experience of trying to access the Upper Field by wheelchair?**

Like I already said, I learned to think more about wheelchairs, but I also learned that Lara and I had a hard time making the slide (well it was not actually MAKING the slide, but it was actually finding the area that was hard), so at last, we just deleted the slide. I learned how to use the program FreeHand as well, and it was quite fun.
 * 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?**

If I could make a suggestion, I would say to do something with scales first, to let them practice of how it goes. I would also give them a little bit more time for the project, because it seems, at the end of the year everyone gives more projects and quizzes. For the rest, I think the project was really fun!
 * What suggestions can you make for improving the process for next year’s students?**