Sunday, April 29, 2018

Architects in Schools-Building Suburban Arazi Part Two


Arazi-Suburban
By: Olivia, Caleb W, Nathan, Erica, Sawyer, and Kiralee


Arazi , this was, “the hype” during this long and, somewhat tiring month of building. So, you may be wondering, what in the world is Arazi?. Well, it just so happens to mean “land” in Turkish, which, in my opinion, is perfect for the name of a city.

The purpose of the suburban area is to be a friendly environment where people can relax and have a lot of fun. For example, there is a park right next to the Stargazer Planetarium. Also, there is a outdoor museum next to some small,family apartments. These apartments were designed for people to get to know each other. As you can see, we have many great things to do in the amazing city of Arazi.

The building process for the suburban area had some difficulties, but we resolved them as well as possible. As we were building, we made sure that we had precise measurements of our buildings. There were many things that we had to build, so we split it up into parts, like the parks, houses, bridges, pond, and Planetarium. We had to consider small details. When we had our work session,everyone worked hard. During some work sessions we had disagreements about where everything was going. Many of our plans would change and we would have to move things around. During the last couple of work sessions, some of us would take time from our recess to work and get as much done as we could before the due date. As time passed and it got closer to the due date, every group got stressed that it wouldn’t be done in time, but it was finished. Once we finished and the final project was done we all were so amazed about how amazing it looked that we couldn't have been happier.

During the process, we came across some difficulties Like things breaking and some people wanted it their way. but others wanted another way, and eventually we stopped. Then, we had ran out of some materials so we had to improvise, for example: we tried to make a hill for the middle of the city, but we had no tissue paper or glue to do papier mâché, 


 
 Learning about scale
 The challenges were that we had trouble agreeing with our decisions. Some of us wanted different things than others but in the end we resolved it. We also had trouble building. Along the way things broke and bent, but we made it through and the suburban area of Arazi turned out 10 times better than all of us thought it would.
We had a lot of challenges, but at the end we worked everything out, and it was worth it. There was stress and anger but things turned around. Our team had fun doing the project, and I think that we all could agree that we had way more fun than what seemed possible.

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