Senior Project Reflection

1. Positive Statement
What are you most proud of in your Block Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

I am most proud of the amount of examples I put into my presentation to show how it is actually applied in real life scenarios.

2. Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Block Presentation (self-assessment)?
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b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?
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3. What worked for you in your senior project?
What worked was that I was able to understand my topic and find reliable sources that I can refer back too.

4. (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?
I would have practice more on my senior project, since I did refer back to my notes.
5. Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples. 

My senior project through mentorship has allowed me to network for internship and or future jobs. I had gone to an event through my mentorship and had gotten to talk to the CEO of Metro Link. So senior project has helped me to get involved in the architecture community and get my name out.

Blog 21: Mentorship

Literal

• Posted 50+ hours too the right ->!

Contact
    
     Mentor: Rachel Adams, LEED AP Architect
     Mentorship: Marshall Fundamental High School, Pasadena CA
                          Architecture for Education, Pasadena CA

Interpretive:

What is most important thing you gained from this experience and why?

• The most important thing that I gained from this experience is getting to working a program that combines all three fields of designing and constructing a building through architecture, engineering, and construction. This enabled me to learn, understand, and be able to work with my mentors and other ACE students and listen to their opinions and include my in take in order to find a consensus design solution. The reason why this skill is so important because in most cases many of the architects, engineers, and construction crews do not ever get the chance to work along side each other. This poses a problem in the design process which could cause a delay in the construction process, or an unnecessary financial cost due to miss communication between each field. In order to avoid future design issues on a build site, I will apply my acquired skills from ACE to encourage commutative efforts and collaborative methods between each discipline.

Applied:

How has what you've done helped you answer your EQ?

• Well working on the ACE annual design competition, I was able to apply green architecture methods to the overall theater design. Our end product we decided to implicate a renewable energy source which applies to the one of specifications for an accredited green design: renewable energy and low energy impact sources. The renewable energy we chose to use was solar energy since our site location is in the city of Los Angeles, and provides for an ideal optimal source for solar energy resource. Another application I applied was sustainable materials which include recycled, modern resource efficient engineered materials, and efficient composite structured materials. Through this material I was able to research some refurbished materials used for accredited green designs, and I was able to find refurbished brick in a company in Riverside. Additionally working alongside my mentor Rachel, she had also taught me the value of thinking about the underlining components that make up a process. Rachel taught me that picking a product just because its a recycled material and from a company that is solely powered by wind energy does not mean the product material is right for your design. You have to consider where your product is coming from, how much energy does it take to manufacture that product, and how much does it take to ship to your site in terms of locality? By learning more about green design I was able to pick which methods of sustainable design best fit for our annual design competition based on our time limit and what we could amount too. Working alongside with my mentor and applying green design I was able to see that green design is a unique process that seeks to incorporate nature through preservative methods. In turn I found that green design was my best answer because of its accredited background of regulation by United States Green Building Council. Lastly since green design has so many various regulations that must be met in order to have an accredited green design which includes: sustainable site design, water quality and conservation, energy and environment, indoor environmental air quality, materials and resources, other exceptional approaches.