Part 1
Site: Discovery Park Business Center
Idea #1: An Interactive Park
With the presence and abundance of greenery and tech in this business complex, why not combine the two forces and create a space that showcases what this area is known for? This business complex is home to many tech companies so it’s only appropriate to create a nature/tech hybrid inspired by Team Lab, a team of “digital technologists” from Tokyo. No new buildings for construction will be needed for a “light show” type of artwork but it will require engineers to be able to program the lights whether they are pre-programmed or if they are activated by motion sensors. A lot of projection mapping attractions also have soothing music so sound engineers will be needed. Piano music will be activated by people stepping on certain areas, such as specific tiles on the ground.
Idea #2: An Interactive Seating Area
Seating – Redefined. There are multiple seating options scattered throughout the business complex that fulfill people’s basic needs of sitting. What is missing in this space is a seating experience. When was the last time you, an adult, have been on a swing? If it took you some time to think about it, then it has been too long. These swinging seats (that can also be used as hammocks) take your seating experience to the next level. Imagine yourself swamped with work and in need of a break to let loose and destress. You walk outside to the courtyard, sit on one of the colorful swings, attach your phone to the seat’s bluetooth, and play your favorite de-stressing playlist in the swing’s built in speaker. You can simply lay down on the seat or swing all your worries away. You’re here for a seating experience.
Idea#3: A Collaboration Area
Imagine working on a non-secret work project or having a project of your own, wouldn’t you like an outdoor space to go through your thoughts and collaborate with other members of the community? The natural scenery will open your mind up and set you in a more relaxed state to think about your next project or question more clearly. There can be white boards, glass boards, markers, erasers, outlets galore in this space for people to use. This space can also be used to host sponsored workshops for learning new skills that every company might be interested in. It is also a great place to meet and network with people.
Part 2
MAP:
IDEA: Collaboration w/ Swinging Chairs
These tables will be in the center of the courtyard area. There will be one larger communal table and a few surrounding the space (one on each corner of the middle square green patch).
Option #1: Tech-free Space
The space will have these (shaded) tables and swinging chairs and nothing else.
Option #2: Tech Space
The space will have these (shaded) tables and swinging chairs along with built in bluetooth speakers & charging stations. The speakers and charging stations will only be for the non-communal tables.
Part 3
Hi Sofanah and Rona, is there a voice over that goes with the Prezi? Thanks
Hi Saurabh! Unfortunately no, not at the moment! But that would be cool to add. Good idea!
Team 2: 9:15 PM (Sofanah Alrobayan & Rona Cabrera)
https://sites.uci.edu/in4matx282f18/project-3-sofanah-alrobayan-rona-cabrera-group-2/
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1woOITqfApQa01QNIZr99nEi3u49S7_4MtjVA8UtPlqU/edit#slide=id.p
Are you designing to optimize existing design or informal get-togethers? There are some overlaps between the two ideas b/c one is about collaboration and one is about not working. The dynamic nature of the natural environment is at different time scale could be enacted as different experience (e.g., sound?).