Buekenhorst Urban Plan

Wiel Arets: Works, Projects, Writings.  168-173

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FEA Dessau

Sauerbruch + Hutton Architects from 2G no.52, pg 30-35

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Office For KfW Bankengruppe, Frankfurt

Sauerbruch + Hutton Architects from 2G no.52, pg 86-98

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Museum Brandhorst, Munich

Sauerbruch + Hutton Architects from 2G no.52, pg 86-98

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Ingenious Drawings

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Bay Game Pre-Assessment

Name ___Benjamin Hartigan______UVA Email:___beh8fr_______

Course Instructor______Bill Sherman_____ TA (If applicable)_________________________

Please mark the appropriate sentence that describes your experience with the UVA Bay Game.

_____ I have played the UVA Bay Game before. Number of times_______________

___x___ I have NOT played the UVA Bay Game before.

Please respond to the following questions as completely as your current knowledge of the subject allows.

1. List the variables and concepts that you think are part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed system (You can list as many as you would like. Use additional space if needed).

People
-Population level
-New Settlement/zoning
-Farming
-Chemicals/fertilizers
-Impervious Surfaces
Pollution
-Shipping
-Fishing
-Manufacturing
-Energy
-Waste
Natural
Weather patterns
River and bay level
Ground water
Soil type/geology
Native Flora/Fauna
– Suitable habitat
Pollution levels, esp Nitrogen
diversity of species
loss of predator/overpopulation
invasive species
Climate Change
– Impact on water levels and salinity
movement/migration of species
Storms/weather patterns

2. Describe the relationship and interaction between these variables. Be specific. For example, if you state that A influences B, indicate the direction and nature of the influence (i.e., A transforms B in this way, A increases/decreases B, etc.).

Human impact, Natural influences, and Native species are three categories which interconnect and overlap, creating areas of conflict in the form of diminishing habitat/human settlement; human settlement/water pollution, water pollution/diminishing habitat. Though not a circular process of cause and effect, these relationships are complex networks of interaction that contain leverage points and multiple implications with a single change.

Workshop 105

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Uncovering Process – Place,Production, and Systems at Chrysler’s Dodge Chicago Plant

Visualizing Systems

I recently came across this image produced by the Opte Project – an initiative to map the entire internet in a single day. This thought provoking map shows us, in a mass of colored synapse-like clouds, both the amazing and terrifying linkage of every internet user. How does this system function? One way is described in chapter Three of Thinking in Systems where Meadows defines self-organization as a system’s capacity to make its own structure more complex, to create new structure, to learn, diversify and complexify. (Meadows,81). One result self-organization is Hierarchy, the process of creating new structures with increasing complexity, looking like subsystems nested within subsystems, within larger subsystems, and so forth. We can see this above, especially at the ends, where a “bud” of lines groups into a single line, part of a larger bud which is part of a larger bud, which is connected to the rest of the cloud. The importance of hierarchy lies in the connections: the hierarchy within the subsystem is stronger than the relationship between subsystems (Meadows, 83). How is this reflected above? How is this seen right here through blogging?