Final Project Statement

FINAL ASSIGNMENT PROPOSED STATEMENT

PROCESS: Team Work 

MEMBER: Fan Lan & Meining Shen

Project Site: LA602 Final Project

Site Location: Our site for project IV is a 60 acre, city owned property nestled between two interstates and the Missouri River. When driving into Iowa from Nebraska on Interstate 80 this is one of the first sites that becomes visible to drivers. Essentially this is how Iowa and the City of Council Bluffs are choosing to welcome people into the state.

Our Project Topic:

Group work part

1.           We will model our existing site and analyze in 3 scales:

A). Regional Scale: Model with landform and surrounding main features. Analysis on area existing conditions: Transportation, Casino, Industrial Companies, Mid-American Mall, Western Historic Trail, Missouri River.  (Sunday, April 8th)

B). Site Scale: Analysis on our site scale with potential topics: line of sight, slope, flooding. (due Thursday April 12th)

Separate work part

       1. Starting our different proposed model with designed landscape elements.

      C). Design Scale: Analysis on topic: cut/fill volume (due Thursday April 19th)

      2. Render and visualize proposed models in 'scenes' including day and night scenes, rainy and winter scenes, and compared with site existing photos. (due Tuesday April 23rd)

       3. Produce TWO different narrated and/or annotated animation. (due Tuesday April 23rd)

     

       4. Submit assignment by 9PM two nights before the scheduled Final Review for this class, to the class CYBOX folder named LA605 FINAL SUBMISSIONS, in a subfolder named YOURLASTNAME. (due May 1st 9PM) 

HW#8

My Lumion Video:

Scene Effects Poster:

HW#7 PartB

HW#7 PartA

HW#6

  

PDF Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uDPQJhyolXobfnpGpdQ5dKcPUeHZqsMv/view?  usp=sharing

HW#5

PDF Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o6Khf89oxz0hYEld-caLdVbNc6DEBuh_/view?usp=sharing

HW#4

PDF Link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WsKVgfn5QaAm2g9tFotkf4QwHB5z6E9z

HW#3

        Here is the PDF Link

HW#2

         Here is the PDF Link

#1 LA559 S18

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Fan Lan

MLA, 1st year

i. What prior experience with digital technology have you had?  List software and levels of proficiency

I studied in landscape architecture for 5 years. During my undergraduate study, I engaged almost all those basic digital technology. I am good at digital plan drawing by using AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator (4/5). I could use limited functions in Indesign (2/5), ArcGIS (2/5), Google Earth Pro (2/5)，Lumion Pro (3/5). I  used all these softwares for earlier design works.

ii. Describe your comfort level with computing generally, and with the software programs:

I am at the entry level on Rhino, but I have not used it for years. 

I know limited about computing and nothing about Rhino-Grasshopper and Processing programming environment.

iii.  What are your goals and expectations for this course?

   First, I aim to learn some useful and fast processing methods from this course to find and deal with the base map for design use. Besides, I am interested in the parametric design by using rhino and its plugin, grasshopper. I hope to learn programming from this class and to get elementary level by learning some basic rules of processing or python language for future using. Last but not least, I am also fascinated to use GIS for landscape theme analyses and researches. I hope to learn some analytical methods by using GIS as the aiding.