2/9 AIANY Center for Architecture

From 10 to 12:30 I worked at the AIANY Center for Architecture. At 10 my group and I were given a tour of some of the things on the first floor and we discussed how we could make buildings green. Some of the ideas that we came up with were using the rain water as the toilet water, using an old structure to make the new building, making the building out of glass, etc. We were taken downstairs while our guide went back upstairs to brief in the students and parents from P.S 171. Once these students and parets were finished with their tour they joined us downstairs. They were given the assignment to make their own green building. We walked around helping people and asking what their ideas were. Then we were given the choice to make our own. We didn’t make much progress on it because we had to alternate between walking around and constructing our building. I think that if we all sat down together than we could have gotten farther. As time was winding down we helped clean up the materials and then the buildings were presented. Each person had their own individual idea. One team, a child and his mother, made their green building out of a recycled parking lot.