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Reflection in the Aftermath
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 6:47PM ASSIGNMENT #3
After our visit to Haiti, we were able to reflect on the things we saw and experienced. Through these reflections, we analyzed many components of the project and found the most prominent things that have changed in our minds since the visit. The first of these things that will profoundly change our project is the need to preserve the vegetation on the site. Not only are the existing elements beautiful, but they also create and frame important views for the site as well as create a natural canopy in which to shield the future development from harsh direct sunlight.
The next element we understood to much greater depth after visiting is the slope of the site. In the first phases of design, we were envisioning the site with a slope but nothing very dramatic. In reality we found the slope of the ravine to be impractical to build on and with very thick vegetation, something we need to work with and not against.
The last element that was clarified on our trip was the necessary relationship between indoor and outdoor space. Before we travelled to Fond-des-Blancs, we were informed that porches area very necessary element to the lifestyle of the Haitian people due to the shade it offers. We were also imagining a larger outdoor kitchen and dining area for the homes we would design. We found this to be untrue. Though porches are extremely necessary to their lifestyle, it is not in the way we view porches here. The porch of a home should be viewed as an actual room of the house and is where most of the social interaction takes place. The porch is used more as a living room and the living room is actually a much more private place where only good friends and family would be invited. We also found that, although there is a lot of outdoor charcoal cooking, Fond-des-Blancs wishes to move to a more efficient indoor electric kitchen and the dinning would be contained within the home.
With all that being said, the trip to Haiti proved to be extremely beneficial to our design process. We were able to discover elements within the culture and the site that we would have otherwise neglected to realize. We are optimistic about ability to further develop our project with a greater understanding of the Haitian culture and site conditions.
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