Mei+Huii



This class, we learned about the difficulties of disabled people when parks are concerned. We tried to get a wheelchair onto the courtyard but that was more of a miserable failure. The group I went with was the one, which had to go to the upper field in crutches. The stairs were very steep so there were a few moments where we thought that it was impossible but at last, we did it. However, the person who did it didn’t need the crutch so I shudder to think about how hard it would be to someone who did need one. When designing the actual part, I faced the same problems that many architects fact even today. Scale. We had a 4m per square unit or 2m per square unit scale. Idiotically, I chose the former. And it was rather difficult. I ended up almost in tears over the design but I think it was a good learning experience. A suggestion for the next group of 6th graders, have a lesson about scale and have the opinion of using paper and pencil or Macromedia Freehand. It seems to me that one of the main problems with this project was that not many of the students were comfortable designing a park with software that was not familiar to us. Even worse, none of them even knew that Macromedia Freehand. So to make life easier, I would think that we should have two lessons preceding the actual designing. One for scale and another about Macromedia Freehand (optional for those who want to use the computer) All in all, this project was good but could have been much much better.