Defining the Essential Question

1. What is most important when designing a structure?

2. Designing: Choosing what shapes, sizes, measurements, colors, textures, materials to use and putting them together to make a structure.
Structure: A building, bridge, tower, house, etc.

3. Answer #1: Accounting for natural factors like water, decay, weather, and abuse.
Answer #2: Accounting for the community around the structure and designing something that will improve and be improved by the community.
Answer #3: Embracing the space of the structure by creating symmetry between one inch of the design to the other.

4. My most important source so far has been "A Lively Theatre" which is an article by Richard Pilbrow. It made me realize how important it was to account for the people who are going to be in the building you design. It also taught me to incorporate life situations into designing a structure like for example, watching a dance performance in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The crowd would surround around the performers like the shape of a horseshoe which thus becomes a great and effective way to design a theatre to please the audience and the performers.