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- outside of building is framed at all different angles, with red brick, steel bars crossing wide open windows.
- windows contain different artifacts
- dinosaur skull
- replica of rover
- precious stones/metals
- various astronaut tools/miniature replicas of spaceships
- Glass boxes hanging outside the building up against the brick wall contain fossils and rocks
- Inside are TV's varying in all different sizes. The larger ones show different outer space live-streaming clips from satellites, rovers, and old spaceship footage of launches
- smaller TV's are playing speeches from presidents, world famous scientist, and professionals on the topic at hand (earth/space exploration)
- The medium sized TV's show a large global pictures with the various time differences around the world. There are also screens with times from places such as the moon, Mars, and Venus.
- The walls inside the building as you walk in are made of rough edged rocks (sandstone) and at the bottom of the wall are ledges that stick out where you can sit and use the wifi. These benches are made of the same red brick from the outside part of the building.
- A receptionist/information desk sits on the right as you walk in, with two computers behind the counter and yet more TV's hanging around the desk.
- Past the receptionist desk there is your first large room. You can see straight in to the room through the clear glass walls. Inside of rolly chairs, a large meeting desk, TV's, projector, and various pictures with autographs.
- On the other side of the rough sandstone wall (to the left as you walk in) there is the lecture hall. The only one in the building, it can seat 365 students and resembles a movie theater.
- As you walk farther into the building there is a lobby - or a lobby soon to be museum.
- There are two large exhibits in the center of the lobby. One is for Geology. It shows various parts of the planet on a touch screen pad that you can press and the picked destination will blow up in front of you on a large screen. There are interviews, comments, explanations, and even short movies that have to do with the minerals, fossils, and continental plate boundaries.
- The second of the exhibits is the large of the two. This exhibit is for Mars and other various planet in our solar system. In the center of a small (but high with black walls) spiral it has a dark orange circle thats suppose to resemble Mars. With this ball and a touch screen pad you can move your way across all of the galaxy that we have mapped out thus far. Visiting planet, the sun, and even the orphaned pluto.
- There are a set of stairs on the far right side of the floor. Although this building is 8 stories high, the stairs only go up to the second level before they are cut off by a ceiling that cuts the upper six floors off from the bottom two. These stairs have high stainless steal walls, so you cant see anyone if they were walking up or down the flight.
- The walls of the main floor aren't actually walls but mimic a sort of enclosure of "space" limit.
- On all side of the main floor are large class windows where you can see directly into lab rooms.
- Two of these lab rooms are particle rooms. One contains 100,000 particles. This way the scientist can work in a clean, open spaced, environment and not have to worry about contamination.
- The second of the two rooms is a 10,000 particle room. This room has even less stuff in it, a mere table, four chairs, a shelf and a phone are the only things occupying the room.
- All other rooms are lab rooms. With many different chemicals and machines that I can't even begin to name or even describe. There are white lab coats that you can see immediately through the windows (safety first!) and goggles hanging on coat racks.
- On the second floor, there is a high stainless steel three layered bar barrier so you can't fall off the side.
- There are more labs up there only they are side-to-side, completely see through and all access where as the ones on the bottom floor are for the special people.
- The floor is made of an orange/white marble that twists and turns in every direction so that it looks like your walking on polished lava.
- Four vending machines filled with delicious candies and sodas that will make you fat, tired, and leave you wanting more.
- Many many exhibit signs line the walls and are scattered around the floor trying to get your attention about different events or when certain locations/activities/events will start or be open.
- The temperature essentially makes it a freezer, I'm 98% that you've be able to see your breath in there if you managed to get your lungs to create enough hot air.
- But the amount of extremely bright, natural sun light streaming in through all the windows makes up for it. They also have many many many lightbulbs that I have never seen go off. Which leads me to the recycling!
- Recycling cans everywhere.
- I really hope this is two pages. Or at least enough to satisfy you. Keep in mind that I did originally hand write these and it was two pages.
This seems like a great building. I like how you started out by describing the outside of the building. This gave me a glimpse into what the inside might look like. I also liked how you described the different sizes of TV’s on the wall, and what each one was showing. From what you described, the building seems a lot like a museum. The special features of the building that you mentioned, such as the floor looking like lava, paints a picture in my mind of a very modern, and new looking space. The labs sound awesome. In my mind, I picture the labs to be mostly white. I would recommend that in your final paper, you include both the colors of the rooms, and how busy they are. The way that you described the temperature being freezing, and the natural light coming into the building created great imagery. In particular, the fact that you said there is a lot of natural light makes the building seem warm and open to possibilities.
ReplyDeleteYou could connect your notes to Frank Vanclay’s interpretation of what defines place. He defines place as a space that has meaning. The ISTB4 building in an integral part in both the university, and many students education, and therefore is more of a “place,” than a “space.”
I really like your choice of place for this project! Your imagery and choice of words really makes me feel as if I’m looking at the building myself. Describing things like the material used for the walls inside the building suggests to me that it’s very calm and serene inside. The way you chose to describe each room was very creative because just by reading your notes I feel as if I’m touring the place myself. All your details create an image in my mind! I also thought the temperature and lighting descriptions were neat and suggest a particular mood and setting that much more. I feel as if the building is very open and mysterious. Your use of language again gives you a lot to work with for your paper.
ReplyDeleteI agree with her that you could connect your notes to Frank’s piece. With all your descriptive language and use of imagery you will easily connect this place through Frank’s lens. You have a lot to say about textures and all the things in each room but I also agree that you should add some detail about color to help set the mood and help the reader feel the way this place made you feel.
I enjoyed this analysis. She picked a really interesting topic and observed many interesting things. I think the pictures were really a great touch and helped me get a better sense of the observations. I think she did a good job of analyzing the shape of things and the different sizes. I like how she compared the different T.V. and their sizes. The T.V. all meant different things and it was good to note the different uses.
ReplyDeleteI liked how she described the walls and the information desk. It was interesting to see the exhibits and the labs. I think she did a good job of keeping the reader interested with good analysis. She did a good job of analyzing the different floors and what each had inside of them. I like how she emphasized the cans being everywhere. I like how she noted the temperature and how she talked about the colors and shapes that were featured in the building.
I would argue that this would be hard to relate a piece to. It is hard to compare things with artifacts but it would be interesting to see how they connect. I think this was a good piece and these notes will be able to help her with her project.
Great choice for an observation. I noticed how you seemed to do observation from the outside in hitting tons of details making it way easier to find objects to analyze. Furthermore, the pictures you provided really gives readers a good idea of what you are looking at. Some ideas that you could analyze could be the orange/white marble that looks like your walking on polished lava. For instance, the building did this purposely to give people walking around a feel of being in a building that is special or give a person that subconscious feel that they are in prehistoric area. Also, you may want to touch upon why they chose those colors, like the fact that white a lot of times represent purity. Moreover, there may be a reason why the architect used sandstone as the walls. This could possibly be in order to give people a sense of being closer to nature and yet at the same time in a modern building. Some architects find combining nature elements with modern is pleasing to people. For instance, nature to some people is a great atmosphere for learning, which can be linked to novel and stories where the protagonist goes out into nature to learn and gather knowledge. Additionally, Frank Vanclay says that a place ultimately can give off both positive and negative feelings to a person. Thus, maybe there is a connection to why the architect did this design to give off positive feelings of the building.
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