City Oasis

Week 01

Hi everyone, my name is Shan Liang from China; Currently,i am in my first year of master in landscape architecture. I am really excited to learn parametric modeling, and different softwares from this studio. My aim is to combine agricultural ideas and high technology for a new form architecture.

Previous Work:
My last studio is LARA, the name is framland urbanism. In the project we consider the structure of framland, irrigation system, energy, and governmental policy etc, we have lots of fun.

Manifesto
Utopia city means an ideal community or balanced social system. People live this city without war, discrimination, and exploitation. However, utopia city still is a big ambition for our society so far. So how can we further this good idea? My opinion is that we need to focus on social sustainable development, such as ecology, economics, and policies etc.

Inspiration
The Seven Peaks of Azerbaijan

Beijing 2050

Broadacre City

City Farm

Utopia Forever

Here are some precedents. Like Broadacre city and city farm. Broadacre city creates a new form city structure for urban design, and city farm adds agricultural elements for architecture design. Beijing 2050 and Utopia forever creates green islands or parklands above CBD. The last precedent is the seven peaks of Azerbaijan. I am quite interested in this design because it perfectly combines with architecture and nature. My initial idea of utopia city should connect with agricultural city, air parklands and natural form architecture.

Tutorial

A3 Poster

I want to be a landscape architect...

Danish pavilion for the Shanghai expo 2010

The useful websites that I found

AM – News & Current Affairs Radio and PM – News & Current Affairs Radio

http://www.abc.net.au/am/ & http://www.abc.net.au/pm/

I recommend this website because it is contain update Australian news and the article is very academic and objective. In addition, you can listen the MP3 and read the transcript at same time.

ITunes University

http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/whats-on.html#itb-topten

This website offers awesome videos which are from some very famous universities’ public lecture. You can find them such as University of Oxford, Yale and Stanford ETC; they have a lot of lecture that shared on the website. There are 13 categories which are including Business, Engineering and Fine Arts ETC. More importantly, these videos are for free and very easy to download.

TED

http://www.ted.com/

This website I recommend to you because it has abundant video of presentation or talk. It is very valuable for listening and oral presentation.

Dictionary.com

http://dictionary.reference.com/

Online dictionary is easy and effective to search the meaning of words. Now the new website of Dictionary.com has a lot of new features, such as you can search for Thesaurus, Flashcards, and Quotes ETC. I believe it will help you a lot when you doing the assignment.

National Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

This is an extremely beautiful website, and it contains lots of English articles and videos. It not only benefits for you learning English but also improves your awareness of preserving our environment.  

Discussion Board 1,2,3

Subject: RE: The impact of English on the economy
Author: Liang SHAN Creation date: Sunday, November 7, 2010 11:06:11 PM EST Date last modified: Sunday, November 7, 2010 11:06:11 PM EST Total views: 3  Your views: 4
English has been taught in China for a long time and it still very popular nowadays. No matter what the economy and the education have been strong impacted by English. Abundant institution of English language set up in most of city of China, some popular organizations are: New Orient and New Channel, etc. they offer various course for students of different requirements. In this period, some people become wealth and the educational institution also contribute a lot of tax revenues for our government. Meanwhile, millions of overseas students have a high education in western countries, which also improve the university’s revenues.

Subject: RE: Who needs English language
Author: Liang SHAN Creation date: Saturday, November 6, 2010 8:55:36 PM EST Date last modified: Saturday, November 6, 2010 8:55:36 PM EST Total views: 10  Your views: 5
I can see your point and I agree with your idea. Exactly, learning English could be a superior opportunity for people to seek a better job. This will be a reason that many people follow the step of learning English. But my perspective of who needs English language is that somebody interests in leaning languages. Those people interest in language, vocabulary and grammar and believe English is like music or chocolate to attract their attention. I assume that they are not just to understand the meaning of the sentence but to feel the image of the language.

Subject: RE:About oral presentation
Author: Liang SHAN Creation date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010 12:12:53 AM EST Date last modified: Tuesday, November 9, 2010 12:12:53 AM EST Total views: 1  Your views: 2
I agree with your point. I am a designer and I believe that oral presentation is quite important in my job, because it is the best way to communicate with the clients. During the whole process, we express our idea with some visual aids. It is easy for the clients to understand and interactive with our. We can use Apple inc. as an example, Steve jobs the CEO of Apple, and he manages the presentation every year at WWDC. We can clearly see that the new Apple produces is how to product and why they create the new goods. Therefore, the benefits of oral presentation are obviously and I encourage that everyone should try it.

Reflection week 3

I have been Australia almost a year. At 10^th November I took the airplane to the capital city of Victor——Melbourne last year. I still remember the mood when I in the airplane. It is very complicated but excited. The most reason is that I can see my girlfriend soon and new life will begin, while unknown difficulty should be a challenge for me in the future. Anyway, I am on the way.

Before one year at Melbourne I finished the busy, substantial and hard 3^rd week of E7. The middle course assessment (MCA) is the big job of 3^rd week. Although, its result is not a requirement that we should pass, I really did a lot of work before the test. Firstly, I solve that vocabulary issues. Some new words I have ever met before, such as exaggeration, sufficient, etc. and then I fixed some problems of the structure. However, I still feel the writing is not satisfied because I have a faulty time management. I can’t believe that an hour was spent in introduction and first paragraph. No extra time for me to check my grammar and possible mistake. I definitely hope I can get 70%.

The 3^rd week I star to focus on discussion board. Its convenience is certainly useful for students to discuss in the internet. I think that I not only can learn knowledge at RMIT University but also study advanced learning method. Discussion board offers a platform for University’s student to discuss and learn with each other. It is like a forum at the internet and you can put your idea on the website at anytime, anywhere and any information. It is quite awesome! I do want to recommend that China’s Universities have the same educational system.

Next work is the oral presentation. I already chose the topic last week, while I still confuse about the topic until now. I need to discuss with Carla next week. Maybe she could give me some useful suggestions.