Southend Victoria

Metro

I just heard that metro stations in Stockholm are described as the longest art gallery in the world. The pictures show some parts!

There is a website that has many photos about underground art. looks fun!

Lovely Snow-College

20 Dec. 2010

For Girls!

Perhaps it's the first time I'm thinking about designing a public green space that considers "girls" specially. That makes me feel weird. Why is it the first time I can remember thinking about such a crucial and crystal clear problem?!!!

I can't remember my childhood feelings playing in parks clearly! I just can think of lovely moments of playing, as general as any other girl on earth! but perhaps there were some times I wasn't quite happy: when I was the only girl in playground, many boys were in the queue for sitting on swings and they didn't let me play!!!
There are some memories that they are just getting more visible in my mind from my childhood! It's lovely but at the same time it makes me feel..., I don't know what the feeling is!!! Those memories are not sweet anymore!


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I found a pdf (Green space Scotland) about the impact of green space on aspects of quality of life.
There was a research involving girls between 10-14 in a rural area that showed most girls didn't feel welcome in the very places set aside for their recreation! especially in the evening that they were asked to move on from parks. Plus they just knew a few places to hang out without adult interference, and also recreational space was curtailed by social control exercised boys.
it's sad, isn't it?!




*http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/4478626/2/istockphoto_4478626-playground.jpg

Alpacas! are they lovely?

"http://creekbottomfarm.com/"

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGiC49z8k_g&NR=1"

Golden Gate Bridge

go forward, look left, look right...!!!
http://goldengatebridge.org/photos/bridgewalk.php#

Just interesting!

http://www.blogoscoped.com/files/stripes.html

Tehran, Valiasr Street

Land Artists-3

I finally started to explore CHARLES JENCKS ideas.





http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/judging_judges_detail.cfm?officeContactId=15

Butler's Farm Garden

18th century

"Chinoiserie" refers to the influence of Chinese style and motifs, particularly in the eighteenth century, on European art and decorative arts.*

*Plot- designing your garden, Meredith Kirton, 2005

Land artists-2

+Kim Wilkie
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http://www.kimwilkie.com/pages/projects/ovs/ovs_longwd.html

+Charles Jencks
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http://www.fractal.org/Samenhang-Industrieel-Ontwerpen/Charles-Jencks.htm
http://www.charlesjencks.com/current.html

Land Artists-1

Here I put some images, showing land artists' works.

+Micheal Heizer
-Double Negative
-45 Degrees, 90 Degrees, 180 Degrees, Court of Engineering, Rice University
1984



http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/texas/houston/riceheizer/whole.jpg

+Robert Smithson
-MIRROR TRAIL (ITHACA)
Ithaca, NY
Feb, 1969



http://www.robertsmithson.com/photoworks/mirror-trail-ithaka_300.htm

-SPIRAL JETTY


http://www.robertsmithson.com/earthworks/spiral_jetty.htm

-ASPHALT RUNDOWN
Rome, Italy
Oct, 1969



http://www.robertsmithson.com/earthworks/asphalt.htm

+Mary Miss
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-Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park


http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sculpture.org/documents/parksdir/p%26g/manilow/images/manil55.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sculpture.org/documents/parksdir/p%26g/manilow/manil55.shtml&usg=__NnibyqHngJfgJEFJsZ5n-QtbyfE=&h=217&w=324&sz=24&hl=en&start=4&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=9mnWslF03JWsOM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmary%2Bmiss%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26rlz%3D1R2ADFA_enGB402%26tbs%3Disch:1

+Maya Lin
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http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L650mlSJs7s/SvVE7xMuoOI/AAAAAAAAA94/H5CX9xpr2j8/s320/marymiss.jpg&imgrefurl=http://margaret-cooter.blogspot.com/2009/11/women-and-land-art.html&usg=__0XtFp792PmH6qtZ6nakz6WNnlpI=&h=245&w=320&sz=27&hl=en&start=5&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=v8wW4e5o7gyoSM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmary%2Bmiss%2Bland%2Bart%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1R2ADFA_enGB402%26tbs%3Disch:1

+ Nancy Holt
-Sun tunnel

http://margaret-cooter.blogspot.com/2009/11/women-and-land-art.html

+Agnes Denes
-Wheatfield - A Confrontation, 1982

http://www.digitaldadaism.com/tmp/wheatfield/Wheatfield.jpg

Eighteenth century

Regarding second part of "Landscape of man", by Geoffrey and Susan Jellicole, "all parts of civilised world were in commercial communication". Even plants and designing ideas were travelling east to west, west to east!
I found some interesting links about the effect of chinese garden and Indian architecture in European architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
For example in 1805, Sezincote House was built in Gloucestershire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sezincote_House
It looks like Indian architecture, having onion dome, chattri and guldasta. Chattri in Persian means "like an umbrella".

In Germany, Munich, The Englischer Garten was built in 1789. It's one of the world largest urban public park. It's called English garden because the term refers to the style of informal landscape gardening which was popular in England from mid 18th cetury to the early 19th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englischer_Garten

Admirals Park- Chelmsford

Drawing/Modelling

If drawing/modelling in design process is about testing and hypothesizing, is it like or unlike scientific method?

Well, I'm not quite sure! In scientific method* some experiments should be done. There should be some observations and measuring.It's said that this method is step by step and in each step, everything should be totally clear and repeatable. You should be able to predict the result. Looks acceptable! There are some hypotheses in one hand and you are gonna have the results and the predictions on the other hand by gathering information and using them in a scientific way.
Let's consider drawing or modelling. Is it possible to limit all aspects of modelling a building or a landscape project in a formula? Although there are many engineering standards for modelling and designing, there is no specific rule to define a creative building. There are always books or magazines talking about the best buildings or masterpieces. Surely there is nothing to wait for. It's about imagination and creation. It's exactly "to infinity and beyond!".
However modelling is based on some procedures and it's not totally conceptual, scientific method is searching for a specific or a group of specific results , to say the least. There is no specific idea for the last model.
By the way, I think drawing is kinda similar to scientific method, simply because it is based on experiment and testing different ideas. But there is no unique result in drawing, as it continues forever. Always there is a possibility to make it better.



*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

Coming back!!!

Finally I started studying MA Landscape Architecture, here in Writtle Collge.
I should talk about some aspects of landscape architecture here. I should think about it first!!!
Landscape in thought and image!
I'm thinking!!!!


maybe I come back after drinking a cup of coffee!!!

I should think more!!!

long time no see!

Hey
h r u doin'?!!!
these days I'm busy with lots of stress!
so
Ijust need + energy, overcoming the obstacles
I do Twin Hearts
helps a lot

long time no pic!

hey blog!
I just wanna regret!
I haven't taken any photo for a week!
tomorrow
I'm gonna compensate!
I'm not sure about the subject!
but I have to shake a leg!!!
I have no time to waste
I live 4 a short time
with no fate line on my palm!
Do sth!


Memo:
u r here , there is no need to change the world
u r here to live happily!

Remember how warm it was!

Qeshm
the island I yearn for its calmness, stillness...
I don't know exactly what it has
but I deeply love it!

WOW!

I temporarily deleted the website I wrote here!
H have to ask for permission first.

I'm gonna make sth!
not sure exactly what!!!
but as I 'm crazy about breakfast, I wanna try it!
wish me luck

Canapé!!!

Last Thursday we had a party at home!
Well, as a good daughter I prepared some canapé with Salad Olivier and the others with cheese!
The guests loved it!
Me 2!