FINAL+PROJECT

** by Daniela Arias **  Hello my name is Daniela Arias and I will be presenting you my final project for my english III course at USB. Throughout the trimester we have been learning about Color, light, texture, rhythm, circulation, space and scale in structures. We now have the oportunity to apply that knowledge by describing places. Second Live is where we will be describing a place we previously choose. This program is a virtual world that simulates the real one. My avatar’s name in Second Live is Daniela Rizooto and I choose to describe Dundas Square in Toronto, Cánada.


 * WRITTEN PART**

//Nicknamed as the Toronto's Times Square, Dundas Square is a public place considered by many, as the heart of Toronto City. That's why I have chosen to work with this public square. We have been introduced to some concepts and topics throughout the trimester and we must apply now that knowledge in the description of images.

We first learned about colors and I could say that Toronto's Dundas square don't miss any of them. You look at one picture and you find a open space with gray floors, big pixelboards showing all kinds of propagada with showy colors like red, yellow, blue...etc. The place is full of things and so for thta, it is full of different colors. The next topic introduced to us was light. The lighting in the square is natural in the day and general in the night. It seems different at each time. In the day, the place receives only natural lighting direclty. At night there are great posts that provide general lighting to all the area, and this seens to make it a more inviting place. When we analize the circulation of this public space base on Ching's notes about circulation and paths we find that is it a plane space and so for that, it just has horizontal circulationin. But there are tall buildings around it with mechanical stairs, like for example the Eaton Center's or the Sears Building's vertical circulation. By the other hand, the approach to the square is frontal and the principal paths to it are sidewalks on the perimeter of the square. Rhtyhm is found everywhere; I found repetitions of lines and forms like for example the serie of columns and also the fountains in the center of the square. And last but not least, I will remark that Dundas Square gives a sensation of greatness to the visitants that go there. There are a lot of buildings around it, they all are enormous structures and some of them have big screens at the top, making them big for a human scale. The whole place is open so it interacts with the enviroment in a direct form. The organization of the space is well obtained. The fountains and the platform for the concerts make it a perfect space to go and have a good time.

All of the concepts we have discussed in class are very well conceived in the virtual world. They simulate the real-life place very well. The difference is that in the real-life Dundas Square, there are lots of people that make the dynamics of the place much better. But I think that being able to appreciate the simulations of the real-wolrd places for free is a great advantage, especially the educational profits we could extract from it. //

And now you can see my Presentation... :) ** media type="custom" key="4079923"