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experience essay:
Essay about our experience:
Symbol group 6's experience with the various requirements to support human activities and needs at first was confusion and frustration because of misunderstanding the intentions of the exercise at first. Even after clarification, there was still a level of frustration because of the limits which caused several aspects of our designs to change. We also found that making a diagram was no longer quite as simple as it used to be. Suddenly we had to look up dimensions and numbers to apply to our diagram. We would recommend to other designers that they attempt to consider the needs of their clients and coding early on in the design process so that later on the changes won't be so drastic when they try and accommodate their design to fit the standards. This will save them a lot of problems later on. Codes help design by creating generalization and making people familiar with the objects the codes are applied to even if they haven’t seen these objects in that particular context before.The client will recognize a door frame for example because that is the size of a door frame in every other building they have entered. We anticipate that codes will change our work by making the design process more structured. This will both add to the ease and difficulty. With codes in place, suddenly we know the dimensions for our design, but it also limits to some extent what we can do. Keeping actual standards in mind means that we can no longer pick arbitrary numbers for a hallway.
Symbol group 6's experience with the various requirements to support human activities and needs at first was confusion and frustration because of misunderstanding the intentions of the exercise at first. Even after clarification, there was still a level of frustration because of the limits which caused several aspects of our designs to change. We also found that making a diagram was no longer quite as simple as it used to be. Suddenly we had to look up dimensions and numbers to apply to our diagram. We would recommend to other designers that they attempt to consider the needs of their clients and coding early on in the design process so that later on the changes won't be so drastic when they try and accommodate their design to fit the standards. This will save them a lot of problems later on. Codes help design by creating generalization and making people familiar with the objects the codes are applied to even if they haven’t seen these objects in that particular context before.The client will recognize a door frame for example because that is the size of a door frame in every other building they have entered. We anticipate that codes will change our work by making the design process more structured. This will both add to the ease and difficulty. With codes in place, suddenly we know the dimensions for our design, but it also limits to some extent what we can do. Keeping actual standards in mind means that we can no longer pick arbitrary numbers for a hallway.
shelter bus
Each of the two buses were designed to fit a particular need for hurricane prevention. Once bus is designed for counceling and the secound was designed for damage prevention. The damaged prevention bus will include materials such as wood, nails , tools, batteries, and flash lights, along with many other items. This project was one of the most dificult assigned thus far since we had to work with boundaries such as dimensions and limits.
bus shelter interview
Our group had to interview people at the bus stops, and get their feed back on issues of riding the bus. Please click the link which will take you to yoube.com to view group 6 interview.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmhCLGI7FEU
tornado's
After designing our bus shelter, We were asked to think of a natural disasters and come up with a shelter that would protect from the natural disaster. We reasearched different natural disadters, as we looked through Youtube there was a video that really influences us to design for tornado's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SnTlC_PpPY. We did researched and realized that dome structures are the most dependable against tornado's because the wind curves to the sides and not over the structure. This research really influenced our design, The reason why the actual structure is underground is for more protection.
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