BRADLEY

= **Best Fit** = by Bradley

= INVESTIGATION STAGE =

**General characteristics of the neighborhood** :
In my neighborhood it is always very busy especially on the main street (Queens Blvd). There are many small businesses and very few major businesses. The only major ones are Key Food, Subway, and Dunkin Donuts. The train is approximately 2 blocks away from my neighbor hood and buses run threw my town. Most of the stores are food stores. There are kids all over my neighborhood and they all go to the park called Hoover Park. The school in my neighborhood are P.S.117 and M.S.217.

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**Needs assessment** :
**1. A description of what the neighborhood already has.** My neighborhood already has numerous amounts of stores and big businesses. It also has a couple parks and many apartment buildings and houses. We have a buses that run through our neighborhood and a rain just a block away from us. My neighborhood also has a hospital near by and a library. There are places to do laundry and there are a couple dry cleaners. There's also around two schools here( P.S.117, M.S.217). Many minorities live in my neighborhood and there's not a lot of white folks around. There are many Jewish churches, christian churches and baptist churches around me. There are also a couple of doctors offices who focus in many different medical fields. **2. An analysis of what the neighborhood needs.** My neighborhood needs some entertainment such as a bowling alley, a movie theater, an arcade, etc. There are no places for entertainment in this neighborhood. There's just the basic places that make up a neighborhood. The neighborhood also needs better parks since they are out of shape and old. Many people get hurt in these parks and that an important issue needed to dealt with. I'm not the only one in my neighborhood who thinks about these issues. Many parents including mine talked about this about the school parks and they finally made it safer for the kids. Many kids just like me think there should be some sort of entertainment. There use to be an arcade in a store called D.v.d City. But that store closed down and there's now no place with a decent amount of entertainment in out neighborhood.

**Buildings and architects that provide inspiration**
"Leaning Tower of Pisa Information Page - La Torre Pendente." //Endex Web Page//. Web. 11 Jan. 2011. . ||
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 * I find the Leaning Tower of Pisa as an inspiration because it shows me that even when you make mistakes there can be benefits so always be open to mistakes they are bound to come. Due to the ground that the tower of Pisa was made on it began to tilt but that even made the building more unique. The tilt of this building has brought many people to the site to see it for themselves. Even though this is not what the architects who created this building planned it brought benefits and brought fame to them and this building. So what I got from this building is that if something goes wrong be opened to the mistakes and see if it can actually benefit your building. ||
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"The World Trade Center: Statistics and History." //The Skyscraper Museum//. Web. 11 Jan. 2011. . || "The Empire State Building - a NYCtourist.com PhotoTour." //NYCtourist.com - City Guide to New York City Hotels & Tourism.// Web. 11 Jan. 2011. . || "Madison Square Garden." //Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia//. Web. 11 Jan. 2011. . || "Apollo Theatre, The (1913– ) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed." //| The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed//. Web. 11 Jan. 2011. . ||
 * I find the twin towers as an inspiration because it stood out of all buildings in New York City and could be seen almost everywhere in the city so I would like to make an impact just like these two buildings did. These two buildings were a major part of New Yorks everyday life. Thousands of people worked there which gave it reputation in New York. I would like to do the same and make this building memorable as time goes on. ||
 * [[image:http://www.nyctourist.com/images/empire_state/es_city_night.jpg width="240" height="160" caption="Empire State at night"]]
 * I find the Empire State Building an inspiration because it is one of the biggest buildings in the world and is people usually think when they think of New York and big buildings. I would like to make a building or structure with the same effect. I want my building to be unique and stand out compared to all others. With that it will make people wonder what it is and want to check it out. That will give my building a large amount of popularity giving the fact that around the neighborhood there aren't a lot of all buildings ||
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 * I find Madison Square Garden an inspiration because this building has a very great history and has a very good reputation. This building is one of most famous buildings in all of New York and many famous artists and sports teams love when they get a chance to get there. This building inspires me to try to make my movie theater just as famous so there would be many different directors offering to put their movies in the theater. ||
 * [[image:http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/The_Apollo_Theater__www_tcnj_edu_.jpg width="355" height="295"]]
 * I find the Apollo Theater as an inspiration because it is very famous and has to do with what I want to do in the vacant lot i have found. I was thinking of using the vacant lot to have a movie theater that way people wouldn't have to go so far to see a movie. Also this movietheater was used for many different things which made it so popular. With that idea I would like my movie theater to not only present movies but plays, comedy shows and band performances. ||

=In what ways has this investigation influenced you to design a building for your lot that makes the best fit for the neighborhood?=

This investigation has influenced me to design a building that best fits my lot because I have suddenly realized how much my neighborhood needs entertainment. This entertainment needed is especially for kids. The only fun we have is at our houses or at parks. There aren't any movie theaters, arcades, or even bowling alleys near us. The parks in my neighborhood are really old and out of shape so most of the kids stay inside their house. The part that helped me really realize the problems my neighborhood has was my needs assessment. It made me think hard and notice all the flaws in my neighborhood which helped me with figuring out what would be best for this neighborhood.

= DESIGN BRIEF =

**Design Brief:**
**Problem to be solved: The problem to be solved is that there isn't a lot of fun things to do for kids and young adults in my neighborhood. Or in other words there isn't much entertainment in my neighborhood. We just have the basic things that make up a neighborhood.**

**Requirements:**

 * must have windows on at least one floor out of all four floors
 * must have a sign showing what the building is.
 * must have a parking lot on roof with a road on the side or in the back that people can bring their cars up to the roof.
 * Must have walls on each side of the roof to keep the cars from falling off.

**Constraints:**

 * cannot exceed 4 stories high
 * there must be an elevator to go from floor to floor
 * must be smaller than the lot and not the exact amount as it

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 * Design #1 **
 * This building has four floor and an elevator on the side that leads to the roof. ON the roof there is a parking lot that has a decent amount of room for many cars to fit. This building has a modern day movie theater style to it.**

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 * Design #2 **


 * This building also has four floor and an elevator on the sides that leads to all floor but the parking lot is on the roof. This building is formed with bricks and has an old style to it.**

** Design #3 **

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 * This building has four floors with an extension on the roof that sticks out pretty far. The extension has an elevator on it so that cars can get to the roof to park.**

** Identify the Best Design: Out of all 3 designs the best one is design 2. It meets all requirements and fits in quite well with the rest of my neighborhood, There isn't too much of a difference between the buildings in my neighborhood and the one I have created. **

** Justify Your Choice: The reason for design 2 being the best is because is not only meets all requirements but it looks like a building that would be built in my neighborhood. The other designs that I created would most likely stick out in my neighborhood due to its color and design. Design 2 has 4 floors, has an elevator on the side that can lead you to the parking lot on the roof and has windows on at least the first floor. Out of all three designs this one takes the less room. **