3/8 AIANY Center For Architecture

On the 8th of March I worked for about 2 hours at the AIANY Center For Architecture. I arrived a little late so when I entered the group had already began to work. I worked with Ella, Maya, Amy, Calen and Manny. They filled me in on what was happeningwhen i arrived. The group was making the highest buildings that they could out of one peice of newspaper. I was not filled in on the assignment as a whole but i made an asumption about how this could related to green buildings. I thought that the newspaper could represent one material used to make buildings. The idea was to make a the tallest building you can using only one page of the newspaper. I figured that it this was giving to the group to see how much of a building could someone make using only one of a certain material. It was amazing to see some of the buildings that people created. Most of the buildings had a triangular base other groups didn’t give their building as much support at the base. The theme of this weeks building activity was Chinese architecure. We then saw a brief slide show about some of the buildings in China. After the slide show groups made buildings based off of what they had seen. This time we didn’t get to make a building of our own. Instead we just helped out by asking if anyone needed help and handing out items. While the assignment was going around we were allowed to look around and examine what the groups were making. While I was looking I had a sense that some groups had lost track of the assignment. Most of the buildings were just the imagination run wild and I could no see much relation to the Chinese architecture. I had an ok time. Maybe next time we could do something more interactive.
-Niles