Week 10 - Planning

The Planning explained from the wikipedia as in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan. The psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired future on some scale.
It is a fundamental property of intelligent behaviour. This thought process is essential to the creation and refinement of a plan, or integration of it with other plans, that it combines forecasting of developments with the prepararation of scenarios of how to react to them.
The term is also used to describe the formal procedures used in such an endeavor, such as the creation of documents, diagrams, or meetings to discuss the important issues to be addressed, the objectives to be met and the strategy to be followed.
A plan should be a realistic view of the expectations.
The purpose of plan - It is important to prepare a plan keeping in view the necessities of the enterprise. A plan is important aspect of business and also for making up to due dates for assessments, etc.

Planning for whatever work that you are going to work helps managing time limits and it keeps you up on your work.
It also reflects to our group assessment. We had to plan first for how we'll going to collaborate this work.

Week 9 - Context

What is the context of your work?

Time and spatial..

History of the site
There is a history of conflict within Green point, between the first Dutch settlers and the native Indians. Such as in 1638, Dutch West Indian Company negotiated the purchase of Greenpoint from the Indians.
In 1790, Ferry service has established. Greenpoint was dominated by the two competing ferry operators that carried farm products to markets in Lower Manhattan. Each ferry operated established an independent series of gated roads leading to their ferries.
The majority of transport was by boat and most of the settlement was involved with the water.

- In the 19th century, the area became industries and specialised in shipbuilding.
- Towards the end of the 20th century, residential areas were starting to be created from the old industrial buildings.
- Creative arts was becoming recognised in the area around the same time
- This increased the rent to make in one of Brooklyn’s highest rental areas
- Recent years have brought about a building proposition to introduce around 16,700 new residents with cheaper market rate housing

20th-century to present:
After a long history as a stable, working-class neighborhood and immigrant haven, Greenpoint began to see some of the effects of gentrification by the 1980s. The New York Times noted extraordinary rent increases and displacement as early as 1986, mirroring the pattern of residential conversions of industrial buildings seen in nearby Williamsburg, as well as the similar formation of a smaller art community. Today, rents in Greenpoint are among Brooklyn's highest, and new construction is prevalent on streets where most buildings date back up to a century.

Heritage surroundings

• Picture of Greenpoint houses

Greenpoint (pronounced Greenpernt in those gangster movies of the 1930s) is a quiet, ordered, and orderly community of discrete ethnic populations, with a central charming historic district all but unknown to outsiders, even those in neighbouring sectors of Brooklyn.

Greenpoint Historical District:
Location - roughly from Java to Calyer Sts., Franklin to Manhattan Aves.
Notes - A rich trove of intact churches with both row and freestanding housing. Pride of ownership here translates into buildings maintained (for the most part) in their original shape.

Greenpoint Home for the Aged:
Architect- Theobald Engeldhardt
Location- 137 Oak St. at the head of Guernsey St. N side.
Date- 1887
Style- Italianate

Notes- An eclectic brick mansion with Italianate massing and Romanesque Revival arches.

Reference: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GPT/gpt.htm

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GPT/gpt-history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpoint,_Brooklyn

Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at the Bushwick inlet, on the southeast by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg, on the north by Newtown Creek and Long Island City, Queens at the Pulaski Bridge, and on the west by the East River. Originally farmland (many of the farm owners family names ie; Meserole and Calyer still name the streets), the residential core of Greenpoint was built on parcels divided during the 19th century with rope factories and lumber yards spanning the East River to the west, while the northeastern section along the Newtown Creek through East Williamsburg became an industrial maritime reach.

Where the Greenpoint Historic District roughly bounded by Kent, Calyer, Noble, and Franklin Sts., Clifford Pl. Lorimer St. and Manhattan Ave., the market rate housing maybe suitable to place around this location. It is a historic district and has many interesting architecture. Additionally, it has churches, schools and parks, etc interesting facts within the area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpoint,_Brooklyn

• Architectural Heritage Map

http://ragette.org/greenpoint%20architecture/aiamain.htm

Week 8 - Hierarchy

The definition from the wikipedia, there are many types of hierarchy.
A hierarchy is an arrangement of objects, people, elements, values, grades, orders, classes, etc., in a ranked or graduated series. The word can also refer to a series of such items so arranged. Items in a hierarchy are typically thought of as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another.


There are social hierarchy which a multi-tiered pyramid-like social or functional structure having an apex as the centralization of power.
In a social or group environment, a hierarchy is important to establish order and distribute power. Generally, you have a leader or boss at the top of the hierarchy who takes care of a people with different specialisations takes care of the people in that area and so on.

A hierarchy performs well because each area has a focus and a leader to motivate and push to completion.








Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hierarchy