Alexa’s Apartment

Here is a map of my apartment space and the usual paths of my roommate and I when we get home from work. We have both common and private areas.

Alexa’s Apartment Building & Parking

Here is a map of my apartment building complex and the parking spots with adjacent tenant’s spaces. We can see how some spaces are closer than others to their particular building.

Alexa’s Neighborhood

Traffic tends to get increasingly worse after 3 pm. Surrounding my building is the I-405 Freeway and other major streets which get gridlocked during the later parts of the day. You can see which side of the street has more action versus going the opposite direction.

 

 

Map of my home

 

Map of my neighborhood

 

Map of Long Beach canal

 

 

 

 

 

 

My First Floor

 

My Block

 

My Neighborhood

As the soccer game progressed and my physical abilities declined, these were the positions I migrated to. Top of the chart (Yellow) reflects first half hour (+ -), my best moments of the game.

Saturday, I decided to clean up the entrance porch of my house. I estimated removing more than 100 spiderwebs. I noticed a clear territorial division between large-legged spiders and their smaller counterparts. I thought this could work for the assignment, so this is my hand drawing.

As I went to pick up the mail there were a few of my neighbors walking in and back from the mailbox. This rendering depicts possible mailbox routs by house number.

My Area

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Home

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Street

 

Map 1: Keyboard

Map 2: Desk

Map 3: Room

Map 1 – My House

A hotspot of where most of the residents spend their time.

A map of the pathways that are most common that the residents take.

Map 2 – Street View of My House

The black and orange squiglies represent the neighborhood cats that wander everywhere. There is traffic on the main road, and not much pedestrian traffic.

Map 3 – Aerial View of the Entire Neighborhood

The reason why the line near the gas station is extra thick is because that station is ALWAYS busy, since it has the lowest gas rates for the entire area. The McDonald’s also always has traffic that spills onto the street, so that’s why I chose red for that particular street. The neighborhood borderlines against a golf course. The other major road that leads into the neighborhood is less frequently used.

Desk

---

Team Space 

---

Office

 

Heat maps of my own time spent in various places.

My Apartment

My Neighborhood

 

My City (Metro Area)

MAP 1 – OFFICE

This map shows the paths Poppy, the office work dog and I take on a typical work day.

MAP 2 – COMMUTE

This map details the two routes I take to and from work and home.

MAP 3 – HOME

This map shows the paths I take at home, at night coming in from work and in the morning as I leave to go to work.

 

 

 

I’m really bad in using Illustrator but I learnt a lot about layers and mapping and my neighborhood from doing this exercise (and also from Project 2). These maps are still ugly but they are a big leap from where I was just one week back.

Here goes:

This is my living room and work area (many times a day)

This is an overview of my grocery run (many times a week)

and this is about my unhealthy snacking habits and healthy workout routine (not enough times a week : )

(Samosa = a fried dish with a savory filling, such as spiced potatoes, onions, green peas, and sometimes lentils too. It is a ‘three-dimensional triangle’ and is usually accompanied by chutney. It. Is. Very. Tasty.)

 

 

 

 

 

This is a map of my home and the places where people who spend time here relax within it.

This is a map of the entrance to a walking path that goes through my area and past my home. It’s know as the serpentine walk and it connects several areas of the community to the services both internal and external to the community.

This is the city view of the road to Laguna Beach on the way through El Toro on El Toro Rd.

Here is the first floor of our house, our lot, and a slice of our neighborhood.

 

Map 1 – Second floor of my home

Map 2 – My dog walking map

Map 3 – My commute map

Shown here are three different scaled images around the Balboa Park playhouse. Spoiler alert for future assignments…  I love the Park and there’s so many different areas I can talk about!  View the full pdf here.

Walking and Running through north Balboa Park

 

The Old Globe Theater, Patrons and Performers

 

Snack Order Window at the Old Globe

Map 1: The Condo I’m staying at, paths of my roommate and I done in Illustrator.

Map 2: My office floor, routes of my manager and I in PowerPoint

 

 

 

 

Map 3: My commute, with heavy traffic areas and regular stops hand-drawn. Oy vey.

In case the legend is hard to read full PDF can be found here.

Below is a highly zoomed in corner of my dining room table showcasing the wood grains and stains.

 

 

 

 

 

Next is an outline of the entire apartment in order to show the path taken by my roommate’s cat on a recent evening.

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, we zoom out to the neighbor where I am sad about the lack of parks and trees on my walk home after getting off the work shuttle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

– By Q aka Alex Duong

Activities Done in my Apartment

Languages Spoken at an English Cafe*

*English Cafes are cafes where people can interact with foreigners or English speakers to practice their English.

Traffic Density by People & Cars

For my first map, I illustrated my entire house and the pathways of animals inside and outside. Then I focused on my desk alone, and the ways objects are rearranged to accommodate different activities. Finally, I zoomed all the way in on my keyboard to examine frequency of certain keystrokes during various tasks.

View the full PDF here.

My ApartmentMy Apartment COmmunity

My Commute

I chose to create “Poop Maps” in Illustrator for this assignment. At the neighborhood level and street level, the poop emoji indicates areas where I have noticed unattended dog poop (or something else!). At the apartment level, this is related to where my roommate and I had discovered mouse poop during the “Great Mouse Crisis of October 2019”.

Neighborhood Level (Hayes Valley, San Francisco)

 

Street Level (Fell St. between Octavia St. and Gough St.)

Apartment Level

 

Bedroom

Apartment

Street

Traffic in my office

Traffic around my office building

 

 

 

 

 

Traffic from my office to my house

Apartment

Office Floor

Street

MY APARTMENT

---

A SMALL SECTION OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD:

---

THE GROVE (DOWN THE STREET)

My Office and foot traffic:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

---

The Street my office is located on: 

---

The Neighborhood my office is located in:

My movement within my place of work

Right outside my office building

My commute from the Caltrain station to my office