Independent Component 2

(a) Statement saying: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) Erik Peterson, My mentor, an architect for Claremont Environmental Design Group.
(c) Done.
(d) Interpretive
   From the hours of volunteering that I helped my mentor I was greatly impacted the most with the duration of the process as well as the patience and knowledge required to make a building go green. Research is also important, as my mentor greatly emphasized, and he used this to teach me even more. After researching and explaining the concept to my mentor I was able to make changes to a residential unit that had already been built and modified to be "green". I had to see what techniques I was able to use on this specific structure and I also had to explain why it was unique to that structure.

In the majority of all architecture there are a variety of printers in sizes and purposes. This one for example, is for 24 inch paper that makes the blueprints easier to read because of its size but difficult to move around.

When an architectural firm has been in business for 30+ years, the amount of blueprints saved from previous projects grows and storage becomes a real issue. About 10/13 of these rolls all have the same structure but are in different stages of the design process.

BY having printer accessible in the office extremely precise blueprints can be printed instead of having to be drawn by hand which could lead to mistakes.

Technology is slowly taking over architect business because of the efficiency and its ability to save paper and money. This also allowed my mentor to email my blueprints to review in an instant.


Applied

  This allowed me to answer my essential question in a more detailed way. Before this Independent component I had just researched the ways of making a building green but with the help of my mentor I was able to make the physical connection with all of the knowledge that I had previously read. During my final presentation I hope to have the students complete a very similar task as the one that I was given but of course in a shorter time span and will less detail but enough for them to grasp the concept. Also from this independent component I was able to better understand the design process of a structure because everyday that I was working on it represented one week of work that an architect would do due to the fact of having to meet with other engineers and architects. Every time I returned, my mentor would have some corrections that needed to be fixed in order to get the building approved. Of course it was not always a very small problem, sometimes a smaller problem led to even bigger problems.

Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• For the 30 hours I plan on studying the blueprint for sustainable buildings and the benefits as well as the flaws. Hopefully this will give me more possible answers for the near future.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• I will volunteer with my mentor Erik Peterson.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• This will give my topic more depth because it can lead to possible answers.

4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your other logs and call it the independent component 2 log.

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.