ANALYSIS
The input sessions with the community
solution in the later stages. The groups synthesized and
associations, developers and social workers, helped the
overlapped their findings in order to head towards a
students as they were able to form a personal position
number of ideas as solutions.
based on the extracted information and respond to the dialogs with the stakeholders. During the initial stages,
‘Situations’ were formed after our walk through the
according to its own theme and scope. For example,
community and having a dialog with the community
the group focusing on ‘Age in place’ performed critical
association leaders.
analysis on the demographics of aging population and
The idea behind the analysis stage is to contextualize
housing stock. On the other hand, the group dealing with
these ‘Situations’ and create objects while analyzing the
parking zones along Macleod trail, focused on analyzing
overlaps and gaps within these situations. The analysis
the brown field areas and their redevelopment potential.
covered a number of layers in detail depending on the
The analysis led each group into a number of general and
group and their initial vision for the community. The
advance findings related to their area of scope.
Each group moved forward with the analysis
layers included infrastructure, ecology, demographics, building stock, topography, climatic analysis and
building codes.
the physical objects formed with the help of overlapping
A synthesized analysis was presented along with
analysis layers and students’ own experiences during
The aim was to investigate our initial
community visit. Each object is dealt with, by proposing
observations and consider them as the beginning point
interventions and presenting precedents from around
for the analysis. Moving forward, these observations
the globe as to best represent the existing surroundings.
led to a number of emerging aspects providing an
The proposals are presented as mere ideas and are left
opportunity to explore them as a whole. The goal of the
completely open for changes as we dive into next stage
analysis is not merely critical observation but rather
i.e. Workshop which will further help us analyze the area
generating ideas from it which can help in forming a
on the basis of inputs from the residents.
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