So I finished my final project last Thursday for ARCH 272. I think it turned out pretty well; it is an architecture project so it really won’t make sense to a lot of people because it is pretty abstract but I’m sure it could be interesting nonetheless. Let me know what you think via comments.
I debated over whether or not to add a song to it and decided against it, at least for my presentation in class. I might add a version with sound up here because I really like the song to which I originally put the video. The song was Teardrop by Massive Attack which is the theme song of House. I didn’t want to make the reviewers think about House while they watched my video.
We had to create a preliminary version of our portfolio for my class so I have decided to post it here: Portfolio (PDF). The file is 11MB so it might take a little bit to download it. I might put up pictures instead of a PDF eventually. We’ll see.
I went on ESLARP (the East St Louis Action Research Project) this past weekend and it was a great experience. Basically a bunch of architecture majors and a few other random people travel to East St Louis for Friday and Saturday to do different work and cleanup projects to help out the community. I took some pictures so take a look.
My group went to a police station in a small town outside of East St Louis called Brooklyn. It is the oldest established African American community in the United States. Pretty cool huh? We went there to paint the inside of the police station because it was previously the hideous shades of brown and blue. I just think that it isreally cool that U of I can partner with these communities to do something real instead of just sitting here behind our desks doing design work. Even if the things we are doing aren’t necessarily architecture related, we can still be a huge help the community while coming out with new types of knowledge.
We also did a bit of work at the Katherine Dunham Museum. She was a famous dancer and we were sorting through her stuff and keeping the important things while purging the unnecessary things. We went through plenty of old mail and found some interesting objects. It was very tedious and time consuming but I got a couple free tshirts and old magazines out of it so that was a cool bonus.