NATHALIA

= **Best Fit** = by Nathalia

= INVESTIGATION STAGE =

**General characteristics of the neighborhood** :
This neighborhood is in Hollis Queens. It's quiet besides the fact that it's by a busy and popular avenue. The neighborhood is rather small, but commonly used. The people are somewhat close, but it still dangerous because of the different neighborhoods surrounding it are not really good neighborhoods.

Size of ot:It is roughly about 100 ft in width and 40ft in width. So the lot is somewhat big. It's just an empty space between 2 low rise buildings.
Image number one:

**Needs assessment** :
**1. A description of what the neighborhood already has.**

The neighborhood being developed is a busy neighborhood called Hollis, Queens. It's very busy because its location is fairly close to a popular, long avenue that is the focal point of many trains, clothing stores and a variety of restaurants. The neighborhood already has a basketball court that is pretty much broken down, numerous low rise buildings, a shopping place for everyday used items, a few fast food restaurants, laundromats, a medical system and much more. **2. An analysis of what the neighborhood needs.**

This neighborhood needs a place for everybody in the neighborhood to just hang out. Also, while hanging out and having fun the people in the neighborhood should have reassurance that they are in a safe environment. The perfect building to replace that empty lot with would be a low rise community center building.

**Buildings and architects that provide inspiration**
Image#1: I chose this picture because it has a complicated structure, which is what I want my community center building to have.

Image#2: I chose this picture because it defies some rules of gravity. In the community being

designed I want the kids in this building to know that they ciould have fun and are allowed to defy some rules, but not the rules of gravity just the rules that they can't follow in their h

ome because of lack or space or lack of people.

I chose this building because I personally like dogs and thought it was cute. So I want the community building to have a cute appeal that would make tourist and others want to just walk in and see what's inside this cute animal.

The Building inspired me that buildings don't have to be straight and that a building made a letter is very intriguing and captures the attention of anybody walking by, which is what I want my building to do.



This building inspired me because it sticks out without sticking out too much. You have to really observe the building before noticing that it was built on a slant and not straight like a normal one.

** In what ways has this investigation **
I' ve seen this empty lot many times before in my life and I always wanted to go play in there or do something with it. Knowing the neighborhood I thought it would a good idea to just have a place that everyone come go, but still be safe. This lot is has a very convient location right next to a school, food places, clothing stores and shopping centers. In my old neighborhood we had a communtiny center were if you needed to go out and can't bring your kids you could leave them there, you could throw an authorized party there, if the neighbors needed to gather someplace to talk about an issue and many more other uses.

WORKS CITED:
http://hotfreshpics.blogspot.com/2010/05/strange-buildings-around-world.html

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1uc06FGz91qzk0svo1_500.jpg&imgrefurl=

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= DESIGN BRIEF =

**Problem to be solved:**
**Their is an empty lot in the neighborhood that could be used in a variety of ways instead of nothing.** The neighborhood needs some sprucing up and a building were people could go whenever, have fun and know that they are in a safe environment.

**Requirements:**

 * Building has to be a low rise building.
 * Building should be able to stick out in the neighborhood while still not sticking out completely.
 * Building should have two floors.

**Constraints:**

 * Building can't be bigger than 100 feet by 45 feet.

Description of Three Possible Designs ** Design #2 **
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media type="custom" key="8171936" ** Design #3 **

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** Identify the Best Design:The best design was Design number one. **
== ** Justify Your Choice: This was the best choice because it fits all the other requirements while the other buildings lack in some qualities. For example, design number 2 would have stuck out a little too much because of its color. Also, Design three didn't had at least two floors. ** ==