Wrapping It Up

My summer studio is officially over - my final studio within the landscape architecture program at UC Denver. This design proposed an urban-agricultural community incorporating residential, industrial, commercial, and mixed-use buildings. We wrapped up everything yesterday and had a nice farewell dinner with our group and said goodbye (for now) to all our new Chinese friends.

Here are a few members of my group (TA10+) presenting the overall master plan before our professors and two guest reviewers.

My dorm roommate John presenting his sweet metro system design. 

Studio Nanjing 2012 Pin-ups & Sight-seeing

Last Friday we had our first studio pin-ups from our three 10-person studio groups. We had to put together a framework plan with circulation, land-use, design principles and a vision statement. It was a lot of work to coordinate between ten oft-opposing opinions, but we made it work.

 Here's Alexander showing his group's ideas. Tons of plans and diagrams in about three days of work. This was just the pre pin-up before our "formal" Monday presentations. 

 Andy presenting our group's "Urban Agriculture" master plan. We have a  pretty solid team of urban designer, urban planners, architects, and landscape architects from both the SEU and UCD students. Our self-given nickname is 'team awesome,' or TA10+ for short. 

 Taylor (John) presenting his group's big idea with Shigeki and Lin. 

We have been working a lot, but are still taking time to see the city. This is a view of the Xuanwu Lake from the city wall. 

 Here is a view of a Chinese temple from the city wall with the world's 6th-tallest tower - the Zifeng tower- looming in the fog behind. China's cities have proven to be a contrasting blend of the old and the new.

And here's me at Fuzi Miao - a Confucius Temple in Nanjing surrounded by shops and touristy things. It was re-built in the 80's like just about every 'historic' Chinese tourist attraction.