IPBL

Mini Project 1 - Choropleth Map of Natural Resources

I learn a lot of thing while doing the choropleth map. First, I learn T.O.D.A.L.S. , which stands for titles, orientation, date, author, legend and scale. And all of them are necessary elements to create a choropleth map. Next, I use bold line and bright color to let the Bur Bur Land pop out from the flat paper. Choropleth map is a map that use different value of a color to shows the range of a specific topic of a geographic area (e.g. population, natural resources). My choropleth map is describing how much natural resources there is at Bur Bur Land. For instance, at the left map (the blue one), you can see the Beefery and the layer located at 1 layer up is having the most animals.

Process

This is the practice work I have done. I using black and which for the first 2 sheet, but I quickly find out that it is not enough, so for the last 2 sheet, I follow T.O.D.A.L.S and using more color to show my Bur Bur Land. Furthermore, I make the drawing neater and cleaner so the reader (teachers) and understand. I think I improve a lot from fist two to last two, and I believe that I was getting better on it.

Reflection

After I finish this project, I think I did kinda well and hit a 8/10 on my performance. The reason is because I think I can still improve although I already did well. First, I know that I can choose a better color and make the scale more easier to be distinguish. Then, I think I can make the country more realistic, because there will never be a land appear and looks like a burger. I think this teach me a lot on both art and geography. I learn about geography because I understand what did I need to make a choropleth map. I learn about art because I knew the different principle of art and how to copy and past with only your hand.

Mini Project 2 Aesthetic Expression of a Community

The creative process form

Lil' mushroomy house

Black Coffee Shop

ARCADE 24hr OPEN

Reflection

What can I improve?

I think I can improve the Lil' mushroom house by making the door more colorful and make a frame for the window. I would like to change the Black Coffee Shop, too! If I can, I will definitely make the wall looks better by paint it up and add windows using plastic bottle. Furthermore, I want to color up the arcade logo and make it look more fun and classic.

I want to improve my craftsmanship skill because of multiple reasons. First, at all of the buildings, I found that the windows or the doors parts are tilting and curving, non of them are straight and perfect. Next, the ground for arcade is very very messy and all of the layer if card board are flipping out and leaking, make it easier to break. To improve, I think I might use a better knife and measure before go and straight to cut. Also, I will use a piece of paper or card board to cover it like a perfect-fitting rug.

I discussed with Sophie about how I can make the coffee shop look more apparent, and more easy to see that it's a coffee shop and not a tea or other drink shop. She suggested that I can write "COFFEE SHOP "on a piece of paper, and stick it on the giant bottle I got. That really helps a lot and lets people easily identify that this is a coffee shop and not some boba shop or others. (The photo of Black Coffee Shop above is not the latest )

One of the mistakes I corrected is the way I spell ARCADE. I always spell ARCADE as "ARCAD" or "ACARD". Both of them are wrong. The correct one is "ARCADE. That little "E" change almost everything , without it will make my word into a typo and if I change it, it look well so there will no longer be a lot of red lines and articles.

In the Creative Process Form I can provide some of the personal experience. First, for the coffee shop design, the idea actually comes from the bottle that Ms. Pamela gives me. After I got the tag of making a coffee shop, I decided to use the little coffee bottle from Ms. Pamela. I started to design a blueprint in my brain. I carefully peel the cover out because I think make it a sign or logo is a good idea. And I think I can use the bottle and multiple stuff to make logo and the main body of the ceiling. Next for the ARCADE, I wanted to stack and stick all the parts of box to make it smaller, fit inside the size , and also make it not break down. However I isn't quick enough to stick all the boxes together before the hot glue cool. When the hot glue is completely cooling down, the glue just becomes disgusting rocks sticking to it that I cannot peel off. That's why my ceiling looks ugly, but after break, I decided to just use a board to cover it up so nobody sees it! Last, because I know that I always spell the ARCADE wrong, even inside this GSP. I asked Mr. Kyle if the "ARCAD" was spelled correctly after I corrected it. Well, actually Mr. Kyle said "correct" but the "ARCAD" didn't spell like that; it should have an "e" on it. That's what Sophie points out and it makes my art look more normal.

COMBINING THE BUILDINGS TO A CITY

Our group first decided to use framing and to make the circle to make the thrift shop pop out. However, we found that the thrift shop is too flat, and we added some little glue and cups on it to make it look higher. However, Mr. Sotomayor tells us that framing is not suitable for the boxes because it's too big. Therefore, we changed it into proximity, from high density to low density, from a lot of building at one place to a little bit of building at one place. Then we see that the other group that we works with put a lot of building at the bottom. Therefore, we decide to make ours on top and even some building over the ceiling, and then we found out that that looks good, and it just looks like sky and ground.

View it on Canva

Project 3 Introduction: Sustainable Cities

Actually, the first idea we want use is Bristol, Uk, but we quickly found that other groups also use it. We don't want to have the same topics crash at each other. Therefore, Ann suggests that she already researched another one that is also good, and we found that the country she choose-Oslo actually could be the new topic we work on. Therefore, we just changed our topic and decided to follow Ann.

We surf on a website called European Commission. Search and look out for any useful information. And found that in this country apply 100% renewable energy vehicles . And we do connection to Taipei. Things come out well, we hand in the Canva on time, and also covers every question the teacher asks us, and we also check the rubric. However, I believe that we can have more time on it; we can add more pictures or even change the way it shows, because there are too much empty spaces, and having less pictures. I would like to improve it( go search and add more images) and to make our poster look more interesting.

PBL Exhibition

In this project, we try to do a smaller model of 中山 park but got more green space, and sustainable insulation art at it. The process are complex, we first plan what do we want to do (the specific location in Taipei), we chose 中山park because it is very popular for tourist, and there are a lot of places that we can redesign and make the space better. Next, we choose the scale by simple math dividing, our scale is about 500:1 and the whole park is shrinks and be a mini park that can fit the table. Then, our team started to plan the insulation art such as how an we make it sustainable and why is this building. We choose the gazebo because it is a very good place for people to take a small rest and have fun with chatting or making new friends. Finally, we make the model out by our own creative mind and powerful hand; furthermore, we also make a bigger model of the sustainable gazebo that includes a rain water draining system, piezoelectric generator floor, wooden benches and solar panel on the roof.

After making the model out, we started to prepare the whole presentation for the visitor to view and for us to use and speak about. We first choose a suitable, clean, neat, and bright template from Canva; then, we separate the heading with Introduction, Driving Question Brainstorming, SDGs, Project Process, Creative Process, Project Process, Project Analysis, and Interactive Activity. Next, we fill in the information and use the structure and advice given by teacher.

Our team work works really well, we separate the work together and make the different part do by each teammates. However, it is very hard to avoid some small argue during the work, and sometime even the teammates use the device with a inappropriate way. But we soon tell the teacher and warned that person and the project go with all the process stay on track.

improvements

There are a lot of improvements I can make and make the project even better.

We can make the time spending agenda better and don't waste time that can be used at making the map out. For instance, I can put the time when I thinking how much it cost to make the sustainable gazebo out into the process when we make the memory hall so it can looks better and more professional.
I can make the lamp and the front door of the memory hall looks more exquisite because the one we use now can easily be seen made out of metal stripes and did not have any cover or color. I can upgrade it by putting colored paper on it (or wrap it just) and color up the white clay part.
I can make the gazebo looks more like the bigger model we got, because the bigger one is a pentagon, but as you can see, the mini one (the Lego one) is not a pentagon, instead, it looks more like a cube with a trapezoid prism on it. I would like to make the bigger model a congruent version of the Lego one.

feedback

Through out the semester, we get a lot of advice and suggestion from peer and teachers.

Our classmate says we can make the bigger model of the gazebo looks more similar the mini one on the map(just like what I already say). But due to the deadline, we can only let this advice go.
Teachers says that a good presentation should have less word, so we change the wordy pages in the presentation by making the picture more, and summarize the words.
During mock exhibition, our project have been treated with a not very proper way, such as keep swiping our grass and trees, and make our map a mess. Therefore, our teammate print a "Do not touch" sign out and stick at the table so our map is safe and clean.

Exhibition Presentation

Exhibition Project

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