Presentation Day

Scott Killinger giving his thoughts on the project so far, and feedback of the presentation

After visiting the site we have all been affected and considering the designers roll in the lives of a vibrant social network within this community. Personal interaction with the area and its people is a vital component for starting design considerations. Following the site visit, we were divided equally into three groups, to begin schematic planning and design, before we met with the Tianjin students. After a critique in the morning with Tom to discuss our ideas, we had feedback before we presented our ideas to the Chinese students and faculty. The packed lecture hall was filled with students, our future Chinese partners, Professor Laging and Scott Killinger. This was the first time that Scott had seen any of our ideas since we presented our research and programming document to him in Lincoln.

The event started off with Professor Laging’s lecture about several urban design sketch problems that he has been involved with in New Mexico. His lecture helped to frame many of our views to our design problem, and offer an overview of the design process we would take. Within our class groups of three students, we each presented to the Chinese students. We were lucky to have Scott Killinger in the audience and we were all thankful for his feedback, on our development, progress, and future considerations.