Part 1: How I Would Draw the Uof R....
Part 2: After driving around campus, how is the space organized?
I am a sophomore at the University of Redlands and I live off campus. I have lived off campus for both years but I have spent a lot of time on before I attended this school. My dad used to work at the school and I basically grew up on campus, but I really only went to the School of Music and the Commons. You would think that my map of the campus would be pretty accurate, but trust me…it wasn’t.
Since I have started my education at the University I haven’t spent as much time on campus. I tend to just come to my classes, go to the library, and maybe the commons, and then go home. I noticed that when I made my map the largest parts were the spaces where I took my classes and have spent time, otherwise the spaces on my map were small or non existent. I realized this when walked around the campus after class one day.
While I was walking around campus I saw the divisions of work vs. leisure. I noticed that all of the work or class were around the campus while the leisure such as the commons and the dorms were at the center of the campus. The leisure places were the most populated at the time when I walked around campus, the work was quiet while the leisure was loud, and the while the work was not as friendly as the atmosphere of the leisure.
I also realized the separations of different categories of people on campus. The students were at the center of the campus while the faculty was around the edges. I saw a larger population of the females in the library then of males, that could be due to the school demographic. I noticed that more men were walking from the gym than women but there were still women at the gym. I didn’t see any real gender separations throughout the campus.
The faculty of the university is also separated through space. They are separated from their students, their offices are in a certain area of the building. They are also separated from the student workers in the library, they have their own large desks while student worker’s are smaller. I also noticed that the clerical workers of the university are separated from the teachers, they all generally share an office with each other and are at the front of the building than at the back.
I felt that I had a large amount of freedom moving throughout these space but a different amount if I wanted to interact with these spaces. I had to show my ID to use the library, to talk to a worker I would have had to be invited into their space, I felt awkward walking throughout campus by myself, I felt as though I wasn’t a part of the campus community, which effected my perception of the space.
Space at the university is also categorized by activity. All of the buildings of the same subject were grouped together. All of the sciences were grouped together at one end of the campus while music was on the other side. Every building has its own name and its own subject. The commons are categorized by everyday life and the dorms are categorized by personal space and social life.
The thing that made me think about space the most were the sorority and fraternity houses. As I drove past them I got this feeling that they weren’t part of the campus, that they were their own little private community. Their placement is on the very outskirts of campus and I didn’t see a lot of students there. I saw flyers for events going on at the house but they felt very exclusive, as if you had to know someone to go there. I felt that the small campus felt very inclusive but the way that the sorority and fraternity houses are placed in space they feel very exclusive. Since I don’t live on campus it was interesting to see how the university is organized by space and how my perception changed after I took the time out to walk the whole campus.
Part 2: After driving around campus, how is the space organized?
I am a sophomore at the University of Redlands and I live off campus. I have lived off campus for both years but I have spent a lot of time on before I attended this school. My dad used to work at the school and I basically grew up on campus, but I really only went to the School of Music and the Commons. You would think that my map of the campus would be pretty accurate, but trust me…it wasn’t.
Since I have started my education at the University I haven’t spent as much time on campus. I tend to just come to my classes, go to the library, and maybe the commons, and then go home. I noticed that when I made my map the largest parts were the spaces where I took my classes and have spent time, otherwise the spaces on my map were small or non existent. I realized this when walked around the campus after class one day.
While I was walking around campus I saw the divisions of work vs. leisure. I noticed that all of the work or class were around the campus while the leisure such as the commons and the dorms were at the center of the campus. The leisure places were the most populated at the time when I walked around campus, the work was quiet while the leisure was loud, and the while the work was not as friendly as the atmosphere of the leisure.
I also realized the separations of different categories of people on campus. The students were at the center of the campus while the faculty was around the edges. I saw a larger population of the females in the library then of males, that could be due to the school demographic. I noticed that more men were walking from the gym than women but there were still women at the gym. I didn’t see any real gender separations throughout the campus.
The faculty of the university is also separated through space. They are separated from their students, their offices are in a certain area of the building. They are also separated from the student workers in the library, they have their own large desks while student worker’s are smaller. I also noticed that the clerical workers of the university are separated from the teachers, they all generally share an office with each other and are at the front of the building than at the back.
I felt that I had a large amount of freedom moving throughout these space but a different amount if I wanted to interact with these spaces. I had to show my ID to use the library, to talk to a worker I would have had to be invited into their space, I felt awkward walking throughout campus by myself, I felt as though I wasn’t a part of the campus community, which effected my perception of the space.
Space at the university is also categorized by activity. All of the buildings of the same subject were grouped together. All of the sciences were grouped together at one end of the campus while music was on the other side. Every building has its own name and its own subject. The commons are categorized by everyday life and the dorms are categorized by personal space and social life.
The thing that made me think about space the most were the sorority and fraternity houses. As I drove past them I got this feeling that they weren’t part of the campus, that they were their own little private community. Their placement is on the very outskirts of campus and I didn’t see a lot of students there. I saw flyers for events going on at the house but they felt very exclusive, as if you had to know someone to go there. I felt that the small campus felt very inclusive but the way that the sorority and fraternity houses are placed in space they feel very exclusive. Since I don’t live on campus it was interesting to see how the university is organized by space and how my perception changed after I took the time out to walk the whole campus.
very very nice and thoughtful about the organization and divisions of space, as well as the affective response to space.
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