Stanford Field Trip

Last Friday we went on a field trip to Stanford to look at some buildings with interesting and cool architecture. While there we stopped at the Oval and Main quad, Cantor Center, Clark Center, Ceuter for Clinical Sciences Research, and d. school. Out of these buildings in looks I believe the Ceuter for Clinical Sciences Research looked the best in my opinion. My favorite part of it was how you enter at ground level but as you walk in you come to a bridge that is above a mini bamboo forest. This means that the ground below the bridge is lowered than everything else and it is a weird sense to go from ground level to feel like you are high up. The area was also surround by big rounded light blue glass. To me the area seemed Japanese because of the big glass buildings and bamboo everywhere.I just found the area beautiful and peaceful, and I liked how it incorporated the idea of a modern building and a bamboo forest into one area.



On a different aspect of architecture is functionality. In terms of functionality the d. school was the best. I liked the d. school the best because of how the space was open and movable and free. For example all the tables, chairs, whiteboards, and couches in a classroom had wheels or were attached to a slider so they could move. Another reason I liked the d. school is because of what they do there. At d. school in some courses they take and object or idea with a problem and then try to think of ways to fix that problem. They also come up with new idea and they create a model of it with tinfoil or other materials. They even have a workshop with tools for creating models or actual items to help them. Overall it is a creative and free building with interesting learning style and concept.