PELAHATCHIE Sustainable RESEARCH CENTER...

PELAHATCHIE Sustainable RESEARCH CENTER was my lat project for this semester... feel free to add your comments and opinions

Waterlogged... Water colors

Waterlogue, an application that transfer your images to a water colored drawings. One of our professors introduced me to this application it is amazing ... I used it for my last project to create a conceptual watercolored drawings, images, and diagrams...

Here are some of the drawings that I used for my project... I think that there will be many interesting softwares to create neat, powerful renders ...

Aquaculture Pond

As I mentioned before I'm working on a project in Pelahatchie. I'm trying to create a research sustainable center and Eco Village community, for the last 3 months I read a lot of different articles and journals. While reading those researches I  found an interesting element and it's called Aquacultural Pond; In Aquaculture ponds systems, the sewage water flows through a series of ponds with floating aquatic plant. I added this series of ponds and link it with my research center. I will post the Final posters soon... very soon... but now I will share some of the details that I found on the Internet.

This is very Useful Link :http://water.epa.gov/type/wetlands/upload/design.pdf

Typical scheme of a waste stabilisation system: An anaerobic, facultative and maturation pond in series

Please check this for the Source: http://www.sswm.info/category/implementation-tools/wastewater-treatment/hardware/semi-centralised-wastewater-treatments/w

Wrestlmania 30: A dream came true

This year my brother Amer and I decided to go to Wrestlemania & Hall of Fame event, these two event were held in New Orleans. It was a wonderful experience, when we were young it was a dream for us to go and attend one of the WWE events. This year 2014 the dream come true. What happened is amazing, my favorite wrestler and performer WWE superstar the Undertaker lost for the first time ever at Wrestlemania. The streak is Over and I was proud to be part of Wrestlemania 30. By the way there was around 80,000 people attending this huge event. 

Here are some picture for the two event that me and my brother attended last April:

From Art to Landscape

My friend hardy gave me a book last week and told me it out, It is really interesting. The book name is " From Art to Landscape: Unleashing Creativity in Garden Design" by W. Gary Smith, Smith is one of North America's leading landscape designers, he is specializes in botanical gardens, arboreturns, public art installation, and privet gardens. Smith many awards from different associations and societies (ASLA).

In his book Smith discussed the artists tools in garden design, creativity while designing. Moreover, he wrote about sketching, painting, and drawings as a ways of seeing. I found this really interesting because sketching and painting is our way to communicate with people, it's our way of selling our ideas and show them to the world. Check his book he merged the ecological and cultural themes together. 

Some of W. Gary Smith works:

Art to Landscape, Landscape to Art by W. GARY SMITH

Planting plan for the xeric “Dry Garden.Designed by W. Gary Smith

His book includes different kinds of drawings, paintings you have to check it out. Everybody has his own way to design, and I think Gary has an amazing way to create spaces and places. 

The Garden of The Prophet...

I just wanted to share with you one of my Favorite Quotes for Khalil Gibran from his book "The Garden of The Prophet"

“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.
Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave
and eats a bread it does not harvest.

Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero,
and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.

Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream,
yet submits in its awakening.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking

Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with trumpeting again.

Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years
and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle.

Pity the nation divided into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation.”

― Khalil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet

The story behind the High Line Park ...

      The High Line, a new park atop an elevated rail structure on Manhattans West Side, is among the most Innovative urban reclamation projects in memory. The story of how it came to be is a remarkable one: two young citizens with no prior experience in planning and development collaborated with their neighbors, elected officials, artists, local business owners, and leaders of burgeoning movement of horticulture worldwide as a model for creatively designed, socially vibrant, ecologically sound space ( David and Hammond, 2011).

      The importance of studying the High line park is the transformation of the Death Avenue to an urban garden, and the way of the recycling of the railway into urban park that has spurred real estate development in the neighborhoods which lie along the line. According to Pamela Hartford, the High Line was under threat of demolition, it has been resurrected as a park, and it was considered as one of the 10 landscape design projects that turn damaged and spaces into healthy, beautiful environments .

      Also, one of the great delights of the high line is the mix of the architectural styles with different colors and textures that represent virtually every period of the city’s history. “The high line is a great, unfolding gallery where this urban work of art can viewed in real time” (La Farge, 20e12). For example, there are many building designed by famous architects overlooking the High Line Park such as the sail building by Frank Gehry, the Metal Shutter Houses by Shigeru Ban, and many others.

Im sharing with you the images that I took last summer for the High Line