Serenity Park: Recent activity

Thanks for sharing your design. Your overview, info, and brainstorming sections are strong. They show a keen interest in exploring possibilities and looking for good solutions. I also appreciate your attention to the neighborhood context surrounding your site. It is important for architects to consider the community they are going to build and help guide the design process to create outdoors spaces and buildings that are thoughtful neighbors. Your decision to put a more quiet reflective garden instead of a noisy children's play space is evidence of your initial research into the area. I would encourage you to look at lots of books and other design resources that will help you to learn ways to represent (draw, model, digitally render) your ideas. Drawing is something we can teach people in architecture school, it is harder to teach people to be thoughtful and creative. I think you have some great ideas - don't let your feelings about your drawing abilities get in the way of expressing your concepts.

I agree with you! This design flows much better! The areas are spaced in such a way that makes everything connect with one another.

You should have made a site plan for the whole park for the Final design stage. And in that plan you should add these pathways. I think these pathways are really nice and would go perfectly with the aspect that you are trying to accomplish with your park.

I think this would be an awesome idea if you were to incorporate it into your design! I love this idea.

Awesome courtyard!

Awesome courtyard!

Awesome courtyard!

Are there streets surrounding your park on all sides? Because I'm wondering if you can use other boundaries aside from just fences. Sometimes fences can seem a bit restricting and imposing, and you could use other more natural elements to create a softer-looking boundary such as trees, hedges, or planters.

Good idea and it makes the space a lot more safer visually and physically!

Nice! Well lite space!