Final Exam
End of Fall Semester
Fall semester has been good, full of tragedies, enjoyment, late nights and a lot of learning experiences. Personally, I have been learning a lot from the Texas ASLA Conferences. I have had the fortunate to attended to them even before I started my first studio year in the BLA program. I knew nothing and no one. Years have passed and every year I go back; I meet new people. Conversations with professional Landscape Architects have been evolved. I used to be encourage to keep going or just listen with attention to them talking about projects. Now, I can have those conversations with them and listen carefully to the details they have had trouble with. I felt in love with this major and this class was refreshing and fulfilling for my knowledge.
College Station Fountain Plaza “Blue Baker Plaza” The main attraction from this plaza is the big fountain on the southeast side of the site. This fountain works as a retention pond helps as a flood prevention to the city as this site is mainly developed. All the water that cannot be absorbed anymore by the parking lot concrete can be hold in the retention pond. The fountain is really big to be human scale. It is majestic and make visitors feel small. The water in the fountain …show more content…
which is not really tentative to be used as discussed before. As Landscape Architects we need to think how people move in spaces because we want the visitors to use the landscape we are creating. On the map below, I trace the sidewalk available from the hotel to the fountain and I also traced the route that is most likely to be used by visitors who are not driving their car thought the parking lot. Mostly in Texas, people don’t like to walk and the idea of going around in the sun to get to a place is not always
End of Fall Semester
Fall semester has been good, full of tragedies, enjoyment, late nights and a lot of learning experiences. Personally, I have been learning a lot from the Texas ASLA Conferences. I have had the fortunate to attended to them even before I started my first studio year in the BLA program. I knew nothing and no one. Years have passed and every year I go back; I meet new people. Conversations with professional Landscape Architects have been evolved. I used to be encourage to keep going or just listen with attention to them talking about projects. Now, I can have those conversations with them and listen carefully to the details they have had trouble with. I felt in love with this major and this class was refreshing and fulfilling for my knowledge.
College Station Fountain Plaza “Blue Baker Plaza” The main attraction from this plaza is the big fountain on the southeast side of the site. This fountain works as a retention pond helps as a flood prevention to the city as this site is mainly developed. All the water that cannot be absorbed anymore by the parking lot concrete can be hold in the retention pond. The fountain is really big to be human scale. It is majestic and make visitors feel small. The water in the fountain …show more content…
which is not really tentative to be used as discussed before. As Landscape Architects we need to think how people move in spaces because we want the visitors to use the landscape we are creating. On the map below, I trace the sidewalk available from the hotel to the fountain and I also traced the route that is most likely to be used by visitors who are not driving their car thought the parking lot. Mostly in Texas, people don’t like to walk and the idea of going around in the sun to get to a place is not always