Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) “I, Bryan Uribe, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) I completed my 30 hours with my mentor Erik Peterson 
  (c) Log of 30 hours.
• (d) Since my mentor was moving from the building that he was working, I was unable to really do any real research work with him but the conversations that we had the the research that he provided and helped me achieve made up for the lack of work. Since I was getting more time with research I decided to do my independent component on an essay or a breakdown on some of the sustainable buildings that my mentor, Erik Peterson, had showed me.
• INTERPRETIVE 

This was a superadobe building that Erik Peterson deisgned and that he gave me a tour of. The concept of building with the dirt on-site is a new yet efficient idea.

Here is how the structure looked during construction. Each bag is full of the on-site dirt.

This was the Western Christian School located in Claremont. It may seem like any other building but in fact it is extremely unique.

The Western Christian School looks similar to this structure because it is also built with straw-bales as a substitute for insulation and walls.

Learning about the different ways that a building can be sustainable from window orientation to the actual material that a structure is built from can drastically affect the sustainability of the structure.

• APPLIED                                                                                                                                                                        The component helped me better understand the foundation of my topic by allowing me to  connect the actual building with the blueprints that I had organized and asked questions about. Two specific examples of were of the Bridges Hall of Music for Pomona College in Claremont and The Super Adobe Building for Uncommon Good in Claremont. I was finally able to see how the blueprints corresponded to the final building. Erik Peterson also gave me tours of many of the buildings and explained the benefits and some of the flaws behind many of the different types of sustainable designing.