TEN Ideas Applied To The UNCG Campus.

After learning all week about the acropolis and the xianyang palace and comparing the two of them I took those collective ideas and applied them to the UNCG campus using the following ten ideas:

Space: When thinking about the overall space of the campus I think of how the buildings are arranged and spaced out.  They seem to all be organized in such a way that there is an even array of walking area in between and around the whole campus around the buildings.  The space of everything was designed in this way so that students would have plenty of space to learn inside buildings, but also so they would have just as much space to be outdoors and have plenty of space to walk and for transportation.

Power: Power is shown quite a bit around campus with many of the buildings being rather tall in height.  The tallest building I think would be the Jackson Library tower.  The reason I think that this building was designed to be the tallest is because it is located basically at the center of campus, therefore it will be known by everyone if it is the tallest.  Not only this, but also being that it is a library they would want this to be the tallest to show that it is the most important part of campus.  It is a place where nearly every goes or will go to study and to research information.  It is like a place that ties every class and classroom buildings together all in this one library showing it’s powerfulness.

Experience:  When thinking about experience on the campus I think of how experienced the campus truly is, being that it has been around for quite some time now.  Therefore with the experience that the builders have, they definitely know what they are doing.  When building and constructing new buildings around campus, based on their past experience they can make them in a way that will be beneficial to the rest of the campus. 

Principles:  Some of the principles of the campus are using repetitively about the campus.  Principles are used in so many of the buildings.  Like for example things that they have always done and always will continue to do.  Design principles are used to help people to continue to keep them the same for years to come.

Precedent:  The precedent of the UNCG is that of that fact that although it does not have a clear physical border showing where the campus is, it has a border that one can get a sense of by the feeling it creates.  It is also shown by where the campus is located.  This gives it a nice balance. 

Site:  The “site” that UNCG is located on is one of great importance.  It is in a location that has the best of both worlds.  It is conveniently close to the main city of Greensboro, yet still fairly close to many people’s homes, including my own.  It is like the city and the outskirts all in one.  This makes it appeals for many types of people, from many different backgrounds.

Order:  Order can be found all around the campus, on each building and on all of the buildings together as a whole.  Each building has a certain order to them because of the way in which the windows, doors, and other features of the building are arranged.  They are in a certain order for convenience and appeal.  The order of all of the buildings on campus is so that typically the majority of the dorms are in one area; the eating-places in another and the buildings where classes are held are in the same location.  The campus is in this order for convenience and organization.

Scale:  The scale of the buildings compared to the people has certainly changed a great deal over the years.  When the buildings were first being built the scale of them was much smaller in size.  Now the scale of them has grown so much and will continue to.  The scale has gotten much larger because each year things have to be built to a bigger scale in order to accommodate for more and more students on this expanding campus.

Technology:  I think that technology is one of the key factors of the UNCG campus.  There is no escaping it, everywhere you go on campus there is technology present in form or another.  Technology is so prominent in the way each building is built.  All buildings are built based on it.  If you were to compare the first buildings built on campus to the newest ones, you would notice such a great improvement in technology.  It has come such a long way and will only continue to improve more and more as the UNCG campus ages. 

Surface:  The surface of the buildings around campus has in some ways changed yet stayed the same as well.  The original buildings that were first built on campus were all brick on the surface, many with columns.  Now they are still using brick to build some of the buildings, but not all.  Some are made of stone and other materials.  They now look so much more modern and more pleasing in appearance.