Descriptive Essay: The College Park In Toronto

Network accelerates the exchange of information and increases the movement. The expansion includes not only a city but also the landscape. Mobility makes architecture become organic objects, rather than static existence. The movement expands to larger scaled networks by circulations. The author thinks that buildings are used to accommodate function and networks are just having a function which without a shell, so modern architecture will become flexible on the shells. According to “City of the Future,” Doxiadis discussed that networks create lines to communicate and all elements will interweave with the lines to meaningful organics. Such network systems allow buildings and cities become animate entities which grow up with time. The word” network”

An 800-acre strip of Toronto’s waterfront may show us how cities of the future could be built. Alphabet’s urban innovation team, Sidewalk Labs, has announced a plan to inject urban design and new technologies into the city’s quayside to boost “sustainability, affordability, mobility, and economic

On my second day in Canada, I took a stroll outside in the community of Salmon Arm. The warmth of the sunshine on my face and the fresh breeze weaving by helps me forget for a moment that people are still suffering from the war in other places - places like my home in Syria. Back in Syria, piles of rubble made up cities, buildings were stained with blood, and rebellious symbols were painted on every alley. Innocent families roamed the streets in search of a safe haven to spend the night. I can still vividly picture the Syrian children: faces smeared with dirt, eyes tainted with hopelessness that forever concealed their shine, and mouths moved in a uniform motion that cried out their anguish.

It’s cold and dark. You’re alone. Snow crunches beneath your feet, everything’s the same. You’re tired, hungry, cold and just want to sleep. But you keep walking.

In 1966 Claude Parent and Paul Virilio formed the Architecture Principe group with the aim to investigating orthogonal space and oblique space through the senses of our body. In the virtuous man the body is in the center of 2 constructs, which is an example of the subject/object relationship of man vs environment, figure vs ground. In case of Parent and Virilio, a body sensing an incline slop though gravity makes us conscious about our environment while travel thought it simultaneously. In contrast, flatness is static and artificial. Terrain is form by nature, therefore stimulate our sense of space and create experience thought it. The thesis is to develop a set of methods to utilize the oblique plane into modern environment. In hopes of a different spatial possibility comes into the stack up city.

All it took for reality to become meaningless. As I lay here, I can taste blood in my mouth: hot, wet and metallic. I can feel the forever expanding pool or crimson blood cascading from my partially severed body. My nostrils are filled with the smell of gnarled fabric and the acrid scent of roasting rubber. Silence. It drowns me, it pulls and tugs and screams a thousand words never to be heard. Nothingness.

Urbanism demonstrates the cultural and material aspects of urban and city living. An urban condition is basically a city plan. The space and community play a valuable role in the creative process of designing an urban condition. Designing the spaces between the buildings is just as important and designing the building itself. In the following essay, I will discuss the main critical elements necessary to design a spatially rich urban condition.

Brickell City Centre is a mixed-use development that includes a residential tower, office building, hotel and a shopping center. The idea was to create a space in the downtown where you could work, live, dine and shop. Since downtown is under an urban redevelopment the Brickell City Centre is expected to transform the area from a business district to a whole new experience by bringing life into the neighborhood and becoming the local amenity. The project also includes an integrated Metromover station and underground parking.

My childhood was filled with adventures of Kansas City, my grandmother was always provoking new experiences and understanding of the world around us. Naturally, I knew the perfect person to accompany me along this adventure. The site that was selected for this review was the historic ethnic neighborhood known as Strawberry Hill. Unfortunately, The Strawberry Hill Museum and Cultural Center is only open on weekends, at an almost impossible times for me to attend. Although, on this adventure the most amazing event occurred. Saddened by the change in holiday museum hours, my grandmother and I began walking away, until one of the museum staff members popped out to ask if we needed any assistance. She was full of wonderful historical insight. There is so much rich history within this neighborhood, and such a special find in Kansas City. The staff member encouraged us to further explore the neighborhood, and research the webpage that is chalked full of information of the history. I will incorporate some photos take on this adventure, while connecting the research I have conducted with my experience of the site.

Elmwood Park is a village in Cook County, located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago and it was established in 1914. The community has a population of 24,883 according to the 2010 census, and has maintained a large Italian-American population. I explored this village in early September, and stayed for a few hours visiting the downtown area and some small neighborhoods. Downtown Elmwood Park consisted of many restaurants, majority of them were Italian cuisine and Italian pizzerias. I saw a lot of people outside as it was a nice warm day, there was a park that was filled with young children and some elders, there was also some other adults walking/running with their dogs. About eighty percent of the people there were Caucasian or at least it appeared to be that they were Caucasian. There was about eight restaurants in just one block, and about six barber shops as well, and three grocery stores. The village looked like it was heavily influenced with Italian culture and it almost felt like I stepped into a typically Italian American neighborhood movie set. There was one bakery in particular that I stepped into and also purchased bread from that filled up the block with it’s smell which was pleasant and was what appealed to me in the first place. The bakery had English and Italian text in the business's posters and signs, a grocery stores also had the bilingual posters and as well as the restaurant next to it. There was many Catholic parishes, all of which had religious symbols

Architecture refers to the production of objects, buildings, a task performed by the people. The most successful architecture goes beyond functions, enclosure, or rather a big envelope for living.”

Minimalistic mentalism along with the desire for flexibility were to key factors in the design on the building. The building is divided up into three

The use of pulverizing windows and melting walls demonstrated how non- rectilinear shapes could be integrated into the building skillfully (figure 7). In contrast, the curvilinear shapes of The Leisure Club were more separated. The different layers of the building did not combine well with each other to integrate the curvilinear shapes into the building (figure 8). They were more like isolated individual components than an integral part of the structure. The two buildings were also good examples revealing the application of technologies and digital knowledge into modern designs. In this respect, The Innovation Tower had a better integration of the isolated fragments than The Leisure

In the future, cities will account for nearly 90% of global population growth, 80% of wealth creation, and 60% of total energy consumption1. In this kind of global imperative situation, visioning the future of the cityscape and suggesting a new form of urban life is critical.

Architecture can be related to anything such as society or science, society demands the building of their dream and science made building possible. Science and architect share a mutual goal where both intended to improve the society life style or in another word, to achieve community utopia. Science and architect is one of the main elements to promote utopia and this really make the society to believe that utopia exist. The future will be the combination of science and spirituality, and they should be together forever. In fact, only when we successfully continue to improve our level of consciousness and match the level of science and technology, human beings have a future. The future of humanity is very unpredictable, science may change the world as they see fits such as no disease, no hunger or no pain. Science can explain many problems, from the taste of the food to love, because love is the product of science! Nowadays for the environment, sea level rises every year and many countries started land reclamation to fix the problem such as Japan or Netherland. To face these problems, the architect has made a lot of conceptual idea to accommodate future human life. Since then, conceptual-floating foundation design has been under development to adapt the environmental issue. It uses the principle of buoyancy to support the design and the principle itself is discovered by the scientist, which architect adapted this principle to the design.