Blog 24 - Last Presentation Reflection

I'm FREE!

(1) Positive Statement
What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
What I am most proud of my presentation is that I did not choke as much as I thought I would. Plus, I thought I would do much worse than I originally thought. I thought of myself messing up or not meeting time, but that was not the case. My information was solid and I was able to present a satisfying presentation

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

P, because I need the minimum requirements and did not strive higher than what was expected of me. 

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

P, again. I would asses myself with a P because I did not go above and beyond, I did what was required. 

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

What worked for my senior project was actually the notebook. I knew I had information on it and instead of searching for it online, I refereed back to my notebook. I did not think I would use it as much as I did.
(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?

There wasn't much that did not work for my in my senior project, just I would have done a little more during my presentation. Such as having better slides, more pleasing or having props to show the class. More interactive. 
(5) Finding Value
How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

Senior project actually helped my confidence in presenting. I used to be very shy, and have more of a trembling, freaking out affect. But now, its better. I was pretty comfortable in presenting and I was pretty proud. 

Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

EQ: What qualities can an architect incorporate into a design to evoke a desired psychological effect? My 3 answers are: 1) creativity, 2) health, and 3) culture and history. My best answer would probably be answer one. Because architecture involves many types of engineering and science, it is always advancing. It can incorporate a lot more to make you feel and think certain ways. 

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

The process I took to arrive at my answer would be countless google searching and using my mentor as a reference and guidance to which direction I should take. 

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

Problems I faced was how I should go about finding a suitable question that I would want to pursue myself. I resolved this by reading articles that had to do about my topic.  

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

One of the important sources I used was my mentor. He gave me a lot of advice. Another source I used was my summer school teacher. His class was important because it talked about the history of architecture and its evolution and that is actually part of one of my answers. 

Blog 22 - Independent Component 2

I, Christian Legaspino, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work. My source for completing my IC 2 is my mentor, Miyong Chung. What I did for my senior project was do an additional 30 hours. What I did was go with my mentor, shadow him when he has meetings with his clients. During this time, I meet one of his architect friends, Stephen Le, who I shadowed as well. I had a lot of time to talk with my mentor about my senior project and EQ. I had valuable information that was said to me that I can use for my presentation. The significance of this was that I was able to get my mentor's view and thoughts on the idea. While I shadowed him, I saw some things that he would incorporate that deals with my answers. I learned a lot during his meetings with his clients. Plus, when I wasn't at a meeting with him I would be at the office doing additional work to help around. Use AutoCAD the principle system the employees use. 

These are the notes I took when I went with my mentor during one of his meetings with his clients.

Blog 21 - Interview 4 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

The most important thing I learned form my interview is that architecture is evolving and is continuing to evolve as society flourishes. There is a lot of science and engineering that is taking into fact to make a  suitable living for the users. 

2.  How will what I learned affect my final lesson?

It will help with a closer for my topic. Instead of ending abruptly, I have something to say, like a walk off and maybe convince people to join architecture. There are a lot more positions opening because the people who were in the baby boom are dying off and positions are opening up. 

Interview 4

Blog 20 - Interview 4 Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

Who I plan to interview is my main man, my mentor, Mr. Chung. What makes this particular guy an expertise to interview is because his profession is architecture which is, coincidently, my senior topic! 

2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.

1.  What is the biggest influence you see architecture inspires through its design. 
2. How does architecture affect people's health? 
3. In what ways can you change a room to help benefit an individual's needs? 
4. When designing a building, what is the most important factor to design first? 
5. Do you incorporate any foreign design concepts into your buildings? 
6. How can you alter a room to increase creativity? 
7. How does culture in architecture affect the community? 
8. Does architecture define culture or does culture define architecture? 
9. Which culture has a major influence on architecture? 
10. Does architecture plan a huge role in health? 
11. Can architecture have a negative influence on health? 
12. Can architecture have a negative influence on a person's creativity? 
13. Is it possible for architecture to have a negative influence on various types of culture? 
14. How can an architect alter a room/building to influence someone's health? 
15. Does lighting design have any effect on someone's creativity? 
16. Can audio have a negative or positive effect on someone's creativity? 
17. What do you think is the best influence architecture can inspire? 
18. Is it possible at all that architecture can inspire any feelings within a person? 
19. What is architecture's best quality it can provide people other that a roof to stay under? 
20. Is inspiration even considered when designing a building? 

Blog 19 - Answer 3

1. EQ 

What qualities can an architect incorporate into a design to evoke a desire psychological effect? 

2. Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*

Qualities an architect can incorporate into a design are historical and foreign design aspects to influence history and culture. 

3. 3 details to support the answer

• spanish building are seen through out some buildings, people like it
• pointed arches are used to bring in more light, used mainly for churches to seem more divine 
• asian style buildings are used, japanese influence 

4. The research source(s) to support your details and answer

Source 55, 56, and 57

5. Concluding Sentence

By adding foreign design, it can give people a different look on architecture and how they perceive it.