Reading Response 5

Sheltainer is an architectural project designed to use shipping containers as the basis for micro homes in areas where refugees, students, and lower-income people need housing. The project is working to set up its first community in the graveyard district of Cairo, Egypt. In this part of the city, between half a million to one…

Reading Response 4

From beyond, every piece of us builds a greater part. Individually, we seem all the same. Hollow and transparent, we don’t try to deceive. All of us wanted to be seen as the contingent we are. I am the host. I decided to help those who came from elsewhere. I am surrounded by the thousands…

Reading Response 3

Sound and Architecture: This class is designed to discover how architecture effects the sound within and around a space. Students will learn how to design spaces focusing on how to appropriately direct/control the interaction of sound related to how a space will be used. Not only will students become more familiar with the physics of…

Reading Response 2

I chose the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion as my building of choice. Here is what I wrote about the plans: Plan 1: This plan captures the essence of the museum. The thin lines convey the feeling that there are no boundaries and displays the transparency between domains. The observer has to look closely…

8 Letters

I changed my theme, here is what I have thus far:

Reading Response 1

“Traveled Domain” The domain I have chosen is a pathway to the University of Michigan Music School. I walk down this path nearly every day going to classes and rehearsals. Because of the snow it’s a little harder to fully determine the shape of the path, but it still shows how the path itself isn’t…