April 25th, 2014: IT'S GETTING CLOSER! VERY EXCITED!!!
It was not so long ago where I gave my pitch project and said: Okay, I better get working because this will be impossible. Now, I feel I went through this project, knowing a lot more than I thought I would. I did not learn everything. But I know the idea of the arts of engineering, architecture, and urban living. I have decided that since I may have learned a lot and may have this entire home developed, but not everything. I have chosen that I will continue this project onto my next 20% project. I realized if I took another year, it could be even better. I will have new ideas, more knowledge, and more experience for preparation. When I first started I had a non frosted cake. Now I have Vanilla and Chocolate frosting on it. If I continue it next year, I will have sprinkles, birthday candles, and icing to top it all off. But this does nor mean I am not proud of what I did. I am not Extremely proud to say I accomplished a big thing, but I know I have not failed. I will take small steps at a time.
March 28th, 2014: I LOT HAPPY!
It felt like only a month ago I first started this project. And learned quite a bit. I learned how water works. Solar power How to save water. Windows and the sun, just so much. I think I am ready to go. I mean not 100% ready because since that I have a little bit longer and a bit more time. Sometimes, I felt that I could not do it because it was way too complicated. Sometimes I thought I could not fulfill so much knowledge within a six and a half month project. But, I am almost there. I feel that I have something accomplished. If I do a project like this next year, I will make a continuation of this project. Then this project would be Utopian. I feel the wrath of success coming to me.
March 7th, 2014:
Business Essay for my 20% Mentor
2816 Park Avenue, Merced California
100 Farmland Avenue, Merced, California
March 3rd, 2014
Mr. Garth Pecchenino,
It has been awhile since I have contacted, I highly apologize for that. But now I improved on mu 20% project and I have made a final design for a building and I have also made a final design for a home. But there are a couple of situations I have concerns on:
My first question is that what makes a good building (as in design)? Is there a certain style, or theme that people crave for? Should the building design be based on what type of building it is or what it's being used for? Mainly I am asking is that do you design for what people think, or what your imagination says? Because people may want the building to have a theme based on what it is being used for, or do people just build the building just on whatever they think it should look like. So it is it up to the people, or you imagination?
Second is, when I create a building, do I have to look in the economic factor and marketing? Would I have to look into the how much I spend, and see if I would make profit after selling? Would I have to make sure that it would survive in its market? Would I need to get sponsors to get the money to build? I know whatever wants to be made, or accomplish, there is always a business side to it.
From my previous statements I just have concerns on the ideas of the design and the concerns of business and economics. If you are able to answer my questions, please do so, and take all the time you need. I thank you for your time, and if you have any questions for any reason or concern, please be more than welcome to ask. I again thank you for your time, and have a good evening.
High School Student,
- Ethan Baker-Hayes
February 28th, 2014:
I did it! I did it! I have a new design for my 20 percent project!! YES!!!!! It will be awesome looking. It may seem weird like modern art sculptures, but I did it! It will be a cube, but the top is shapes like a triangular prism. I will now take little small designs on how the walls look, how will the roof look, etc. I will even have interior plumbing and interior appliances, like an automatic faucet on a timer, so and so, etc. But I am very excited now that I have my design done, and I could start working on it and make clay models of it. I can't wait for it. I'm just too excited, I am ready to do it, and have a nice and safe weekend everybody!
February 7th, 2014
People of California: We are under a water emergency (that was declared by Governor Jerry Brown). We are in major drought big time. If we don't get water, we are pretty much doomed for the summer. Hey, they should pen up a water bank.
I have looked at my newspaper last Sunday morning, and the first thing I saw on the front page had to do with the snow situation of water in California. Here it is:
January 31st, 2014
This is making me go up the wall. I have a full design for my regular building, but for a house, it's almost impossible. I have decided that O'm going to readjust my schedule. Right now for this month, I will continue to learn how energy saving works and where in the household that it would function in. Because I find energy saving far more important than designing (which is ironic because I want to be an architect). But if I know where to put solar panels, or the water supply, etc. Then it would help me design it a bit in the end due to limited structure and location. (For example, if I were to put solar panels all around the roof, it would mean that my roof would might have to have a round or a pyramid shape. I will let the energy functioning guide me.) So, off to learn about electricity and spending. Have a good Friday.
January 24th, 2014
Hello everyone. Wow, people are big spenders. They shop a lot. But not only that they spend money that they do NOT need to spend. People leave the lights on, keep the water running, use too much hot water, long showers, they have that extra refrigerator. But why? If people know they spend a lot of money, why don't they stop to save? They want to have a better style of living. The internet and television tel them to turn it off, but they are for some reason too lazy. So, if also for electricity on saving money along with the LED, there are sensored lights. Not on a timer, but they have sensors. Enter the room, lights on. Leave it, lights off. Hands under the faucet, water pours. Hands away from the faucet, water is off. This may seem to be away from architecture and engineering, but it is a problem with urban living. Remember, we are in deep drought season (for the west at least). So if smart think and smart inventions goes to that direction to advanced sensors, this could also led to big dollar signs. But, how much would it cost to make something like this, remember, solar and water power do this as well, so this could benefit that as well.
January 17th, 2014
Just moments ago, one of my classmates knew about my project. he asked if I wanted to be an Architect. I said I hope to be. He said that he was into it in the eigth grade, but he said that he isn't much of an artist. It made me think. Yeah, you do need to be capable of expressing your ideas, but it is all just your imagination. As long as you can remember what you desire, you will recognize. It is not all about artistic skills. (Plus you can always model it.) But that is what art is. It is what your imagination likes. Not what other people, critics or what society think of it. It is all what you think. Not about them.
That's why it is so hard for people to accomplish. They are afraid what others think. They are letting society control them. If you listen to music that most of the people listen to, don't be ashamed of it. Why should you let the world control you? It is your life, decisions, path, and future. You control it. No one else can.
January 10th, 2014
As you can see, I haven't been updating for the past month. But I have gotten a bit more progress. I have made my final decision for my design. I had made a sketch of it where you are looking down at the top of the building in helicopter view. It's shape is a have of a circle, but on the flat idea, a triangle is cut into it. (An equilateral or an isosceles triangle, I'm still making final touches to it. ) But I have also finally decided that it would be kind of a good idea to place that is hot, so that if I make a building that is in the Mojave, or Death Valley, it would be possible to live in such a place. I will also stick to the other locations with the mild temperatures.
Here is my plan until May, 2014 (which is the month I am presenting my full completed project).
January: Understand water power and how it makes electricity and solar power from the sun.
February: Add final touches to building design and location for the building (and I will make a house design as well.)
March: Develop a system to place solar and water supply and power to place it in a certain spot of the building (the roof, under the building, etc.)
April: Add any more final touches, minor designs, and financially how much it would cost, and see if it would survive in the market.
May: Be prepared for presentation, and any more final things, get them done.
December 20th, 2013
Hello for those who are to read! I've been buying Christmas lights. My mom wants mostly LED lights. Speaking of that, it saves energy and money because it takes less energy. So this is a perfect example on how people save money and energy in their homes. If I were to make energy with LED, could it be more than lights? I will try to find out and see how if their is more than LED lighting. So if I were to make a generator with water power and combined with LED lighting, this would totally rock and and not only save energy, but big dollar signs as well! But what if I were also to make LED solar panels, unless if solar panels are already LED. SO now, I could make the idea of LED solar panels, or water power to make LED lighting. Wow, this could really make a big difference. Well, Have a safe and happy holiday, and a happy new year!
December 13th, 2013
I have decide upon location. For the past hundred years, western United States has been in deep drought mode. California, Arizona, and Nevada, are in desperate times for water. Here would also be a right place for these kind of solar powered and water powered homes and buildings. They would make a man made oasis. If it weren't for the Sierra Nevada, there would be no Central Valley. If not for the southern Sierras and the Hoover Dam, no Los Angeles and Las Vegas. I will also be in thought in places such as Oregon, Washington, etc. But now, I am primarily focused on Western United States.
The only thing I am now concerned on is that could I build such a home in an air polluted place? Sure, it could kill plant life from the air polluted towns (such as Riverside), but I can also but power homes there to prevent future pollution in places like that. Hey, it looks like if I succeed, these could be chain homes!
December 6th, 2013
If I were to build a home, or any building, I need to construct it for it to be suitable for it's environment. Like in the Artic, the building has good heating, in the desert the building has a well installed A/C, etc. But what I've been thinking, if I were to create a home off of solar power (which happens to be one of my ideas for my dream building) I need it to have the stable weather conditions and good interior home temperature. So I've scratched off places such as Vegas, NV; Miami, FL; Siberian Russia; or Anchorage, AK. But I've been listing places such as San Francisco, CA; Oregon, the Carolinas, etc, where the temperature is mild, and the air is clean.
For example, If I were to make a solar powered, energy saving building in Riverside California, it will be as hard as H-E double hockey sticks to create solar power there because it's very (unless, extremely) warm and the air is as dirty as a lawn mower. BUT if I were to create a building in a place such as Irvine, CA, it would be easy. The environment (ecologically) would be nice: lots of plant life, clean air, and the mild climate (summer avg. of mid 80's and winter avg. of 60.) This would be the easiest place and the best place to create solar power and save energy.
November 29th, 2013
Hello and Happy Holidays! Right now I am (or was taking a little break due to Thanksgiving holiday, and no, I do not have anything to do with black Friday, so if there's a berserk customer on the news, it's not me, but it will probably be my relative, but I do not know.
Lately, I have been off (enjoying my vacation), but I still am focusing on my project. I am still not sure how my building will look. But what I now do to help myself with that is walk in public. At school, the store, Grandparent's house. Whatever! And look at random objects, or any object with a unusual or undefined shape. It would help me think of an idea for a building, or a house. Or I just close my eyes, put my hands over my eyelids, and my mind will vision random things in my head. Very strange things that don't even exist, so it could help me visualize a shape of a design related to the shape of the random object. That is all for now, and have a safe holiday!
November 22nd, 2013
Well, I gave it some thought, that I won't be using that big LEGO piece, because as you can see, it is very bumpy in elevation, and the detail options on it are low. It is also to small for any building I will attempt to create. If I were to make a model, it would either take a lot of LEGOS, so I am not too sure what I will be making. Unless if I make a gigantic sketch, and present it on the presentation. So either a digital model, a giant sketch, or make an arts and crafts model thingy. (You know where you go to the arts and crafts store and make a model out of styrafoam or whatever.) So, yeah, imagine: a model that's lie the world of Wallace and Gromit. But I will not be using that LEGO model as a part of the model itself. I am still debating what sketches to use and I should have a decision soon.
November 15th, 2013
Okay I have good news. I obviously got bored and started playing with my giant box of old Legos (Yes I have my homework done). And I found this old piece that my older brothers had to an old set of theirs from around twelve years ago. The major piece was a big landscape piece where it had land and water. The land area seemed was supposed to be made of Lego cement or metal and next to it was a little stream/water bank right next to it. I have see this Lego piece and I have played with it for years, but now, I have deep value to it. This will definently help me with my model of a building with water supply.
November 8th, 2013
Today I sent an email to Mr. Garth Pecchenino. He has a local engineering company in my hometown. I went to school with his son last year at my previous high school. He graduated last year and majored in architecture (hey- what a coinsidence). But anyway, I emailed him for any tip of advice, help, or support. Hopefully throughout this weekend, I'll get an email back to see what he has to say. I'm still working on any design for my building. I have about ten so far. When I make my desired design, I'll model it with my ten trillion legos. (But seriously, I have a lot of Legos.)
October 25th, 2013,
I gave out my pitch in the campus library. Around fifty people of an audience.
It was a bit bigger than I expected, but it turned out fine. Now that I finished my pitch, I
can start doing research and I could kick off my legit 20% project. I will start on Friday October 25th.
My modeling should start soon. I'll try to even get contact to UC Merced for advice.
A teacher, named Mr. Diele gave me great advice about windowsills. It sounds very specific,but he told me they have to be a certain depth so the sun's heat can't hit through the window in the summer, but so it can during the winter. I told him thanks and he wished me luck.
It was not so long ago where I gave my pitch project and said: Okay, I better get working because this will be impossible. Now, I feel I went through this project, knowing a lot more than I thought I would. I did not learn everything. But I know the idea of the arts of engineering, architecture, and urban living. I have decided that since I may have learned a lot and may have this entire home developed, but not everything. I have chosen that I will continue this project onto my next 20% project. I realized if I took another year, it could be even better. I will have new ideas, more knowledge, and more experience for preparation. When I first started I had a non frosted cake. Now I have Vanilla and Chocolate frosting on it. If I continue it next year, I will have sprinkles, birthday candles, and icing to top it all off. But this does nor mean I am not proud of what I did. I am not Extremely proud to say I accomplished a big thing, but I know I have not failed. I will take small steps at a time.
March 28th, 2014: I LOT HAPPY!
It felt like only a month ago I first started this project. And learned quite a bit. I learned how water works. Solar power How to save water. Windows and the sun, just so much. I think I am ready to go. I mean not 100% ready because since that I have a little bit longer and a bit more time. Sometimes, I felt that I could not do it because it was way too complicated. Sometimes I thought I could not fulfill so much knowledge within a six and a half month project. But, I am almost there. I feel that I have something accomplished. If I do a project like this next year, I will make a continuation of this project. Then this project would be Utopian. I feel the wrath of success coming to me.
March 7th, 2014:
Business Essay for my 20% Mentor
2816 Park Avenue, Merced California
100 Farmland Avenue, Merced, California
March 3rd, 2014
Mr. Garth Pecchenino,
It has been awhile since I have contacted, I highly apologize for that. But now I improved on mu 20% project and I have made a final design for a building and I have also made a final design for a home. But there are a couple of situations I have concerns on:
My first question is that what makes a good building (as in design)? Is there a certain style, or theme that people crave for? Should the building design be based on what type of building it is or what it's being used for? Mainly I am asking is that do you design for what people think, or what your imagination says? Because people may want the building to have a theme based on what it is being used for, or do people just build the building just on whatever they think it should look like. So it is it up to the people, or you imagination?
Second is, when I create a building, do I have to look in the economic factor and marketing? Would I have to look into the how much I spend, and see if I would make profit after selling? Would I have to make sure that it would survive in its market? Would I need to get sponsors to get the money to build? I know whatever wants to be made, or accomplish, there is always a business side to it.
From my previous statements I just have concerns on the ideas of the design and the concerns of business and economics. If you are able to answer my questions, please do so, and take all the time you need. I thank you for your time, and if you have any questions for any reason or concern, please be more than welcome to ask. I again thank you for your time, and have a good evening.
High School Student,
- Ethan Baker-Hayes
February 28th, 2014:
I did it! I did it! I have a new design for my 20 percent project!! YES!!!!! It will be awesome looking. It may seem weird like modern art sculptures, but I did it! It will be a cube, but the top is shapes like a triangular prism. I will now take little small designs on how the walls look, how will the roof look, etc. I will even have interior plumbing and interior appliances, like an automatic faucet on a timer, so and so, etc. But I am very excited now that I have my design done, and I could start working on it and make clay models of it. I can't wait for it. I'm just too excited, I am ready to do it, and have a nice and safe weekend everybody!
February 7th, 2014
People of California: We are under a water emergency (that was declared by Governor Jerry Brown). We are in major drought big time. If we don't get water, we are pretty much doomed for the summer. Hey, they should pen up a water bank.
I have looked at my newspaper last Sunday morning, and the first thing I saw on the front page had to do with the snow situation of water in California. Here it is:
January 31st, 2014
This is making me go up the wall. I have a full design for my regular building, but for a house, it's almost impossible. I have decided that O'm going to readjust my schedule. Right now for this month, I will continue to learn how energy saving works and where in the household that it would function in. Because I find energy saving far more important than designing (which is ironic because I want to be an architect). But if I know where to put solar panels, or the water supply, etc. Then it would help me design it a bit in the end due to limited structure and location. (For example, if I were to put solar panels all around the roof, it would mean that my roof would might have to have a round or a pyramid shape. I will let the energy functioning guide me.) So, off to learn about electricity and spending. Have a good Friday.
January 24th, 2014
Hello everyone. Wow, people are big spenders. They shop a lot. But not only that they spend money that they do NOT need to spend. People leave the lights on, keep the water running, use too much hot water, long showers, they have that extra refrigerator. But why? If people know they spend a lot of money, why don't they stop to save? They want to have a better style of living. The internet and television tel them to turn it off, but they are for some reason too lazy. So, if also for electricity on saving money along with the LED, there are sensored lights. Not on a timer, but they have sensors. Enter the room, lights on. Leave it, lights off. Hands under the faucet, water pours. Hands away from the faucet, water is off. This may seem to be away from architecture and engineering, but it is a problem with urban living. Remember, we are in deep drought season (for the west at least). So if smart think and smart inventions goes to that direction to advanced sensors, this could also led to big dollar signs. But, how much would it cost to make something like this, remember, solar and water power do this as well, so this could benefit that as well.
January 17th, 2014
Just moments ago, one of my classmates knew about my project. he asked if I wanted to be an Architect. I said I hope to be. He said that he was into it in the eigth grade, but he said that he isn't much of an artist. It made me think. Yeah, you do need to be capable of expressing your ideas, but it is all just your imagination. As long as you can remember what you desire, you will recognize. It is not all about artistic skills. (Plus you can always model it.) But that is what art is. It is what your imagination likes. Not what other people, critics or what society think of it. It is all what you think. Not about them.
That's why it is so hard for people to accomplish. They are afraid what others think. They are letting society control them. If you listen to music that most of the people listen to, don't be ashamed of it. Why should you let the world control you? It is your life, decisions, path, and future. You control it. No one else can.
January 10th, 2014
As you can see, I haven't been updating for the past month. But I have gotten a bit more progress. I have made my final decision for my design. I had made a sketch of it where you are looking down at the top of the building in helicopter view. It's shape is a have of a circle, but on the flat idea, a triangle is cut into it. (An equilateral or an isosceles triangle, I'm still making final touches to it. ) But I have also finally decided that it would be kind of a good idea to place that is hot, so that if I make a building that is in the Mojave, or Death Valley, it would be possible to live in such a place. I will also stick to the other locations with the mild temperatures.
Here is my plan until May, 2014 (which is the month I am presenting my full completed project).
January: Understand water power and how it makes electricity and solar power from the sun.
February: Add final touches to building design and location for the building (and I will make a house design as well.)
March: Develop a system to place solar and water supply and power to place it in a certain spot of the building (the roof, under the building, etc.)
April: Add any more final touches, minor designs, and financially how much it would cost, and see if it would survive in the market.
May: Be prepared for presentation, and any more final things, get them done.
December 20th, 2013
Hello for those who are to read! I've been buying Christmas lights. My mom wants mostly LED lights. Speaking of that, it saves energy and money because it takes less energy. So this is a perfect example on how people save money and energy in their homes. If I were to make energy with LED, could it be more than lights? I will try to find out and see how if their is more than LED lighting. So if I were to make a generator with water power and combined with LED lighting, this would totally rock and and not only save energy, but big dollar signs as well! But what if I were also to make LED solar panels, unless if solar panels are already LED. SO now, I could make the idea of LED solar panels, or water power to make LED lighting. Wow, this could really make a big difference. Well, Have a safe and happy holiday, and a happy new year!
December 13th, 2013
I have decide upon location. For the past hundred years, western United States has been in deep drought mode. California, Arizona, and Nevada, are in desperate times for water. Here would also be a right place for these kind of solar powered and water powered homes and buildings. They would make a man made oasis. If it weren't for the Sierra Nevada, there would be no Central Valley. If not for the southern Sierras and the Hoover Dam, no Los Angeles and Las Vegas. I will also be in thought in places such as Oregon, Washington, etc. But now, I am primarily focused on Western United States.
The only thing I am now concerned on is that could I build such a home in an air polluted place? Sure, it could kill plant life from the air polluted towns (such as Riverside), but I can also but power homes there to prevent future pollution in places like that. Hey, it looks like if I succeed, these could be chain homes!
December 6th, 2013
If I were to build a home, or any building, I need to construct it for it to be suitable for it's environment. Like in the Artic, the building has good heating, in the desert the building has a well installed A/C, etc. But what I've been thinking, if I were to create a home off of solar power (which happens to be one of my ideas for my dream building) I need it to have the stable weather conditions and good interior home temperature. So I've scratched off places such as Vegas, NV; Miami, FL; Siberian Russia; or Anchorage, AK. But I've been listing places such as San Francisco, CA; Oregon, the Carolinas, etc, where the temperature is mild, and the air is clean.
For example, If I were to make a solar powered, energy saving building in Riverside California, it will be as hard as H-E double hockey sticks to create solar power there because it's very (unless, extremely) warm and the air is as dirty as a lawn mower. BUT if I were to create a building in a place such as Irvine, CA, it would be easy. The environment (ecologically) would be nice: lots of plant life, clean air, and the mild climate (summer avg. of mid 80's and winter avg. of 60.) This would be the easiest place and the best place to create solar power and save energy.
November 29th, 2013
Hello and Happy Holidays! Right now I am (or was taking a little break due to Thanksgiving holiday, and no, I do not have anything to do with black Friday, so if there's a berserk customer on the news, it's not me, but it will probably be my relative, but I do not know.
Lately, I have been off (enjoying my vacation), but I still am focusing on my project. I am still not sure how my building will look. But what I now do to help myself with that is walk in public. At school, the store, Grandparent's house. Whatever! And look at random objects, or any object with a unusual or undefined shape. It would help me think of an idea for a building, or a house. Or I just close my eyes, put my hands over my eyelids, and my mind will vision random things in my head. Very strange things that don't even exist, so it could help me visualize a shape of a design related to the shape of the random object. That is all for now, and have a safe holiday!
November 22nd, 2013
Well, I gave it some thought, that I won't be using that big LEGO piece, because as you can see, it is very bumpy in elevation, and the detail options on it are low. It is also to small for any building I will attempt to create. If I were to make a model, it would either take a lot of LEGOS, so I am not too sure what I will be making. Unless if I make a gigantic sketch, and present it on the presentation. So either a digital model, a giant sketch, or make an arts and crafts model thingy. (You know where you go to the arts and crafts store and make a model out of styrafoam or whatever.) So, yeah, imagine: a model that's lie the world of Wallace and Gromit. But I will not be using that LEGO model as a part of the model itself. I am still debating what sketches to use and I should have a decision soon.
November 15th, 2013
Okay I have good news. I obviously got bored and started playing with my giant box of old Legos (Yes I have my homework done). And I found this old piece that my older brothers had to an old set of theirs from around twelve years ago. The major piece was a big landscape piece where it had land and water. The land area seemed was supposed to be made of Lego cement or metal and next to it was a little stream/water bank right next to it. I have see this Lego piece and I have played with it for years, but now, I have deep value to it. This will definently help me with my model of a building with water supply.
November 8th, 2013
Today I sent an email to Mr. Garth Pecchenino. He has a local engineering company in my hometown. I went to school with his son last year at my previous high school. He graduated last year and majored in architecture (hey- what a coinsidence). But anyway, I emailed him for any tip of advice, help, or support. Hopefully throughout this weekend, I'll get an email back to see what he has to say. I'm still working on any design for my building. I have about ten so far. When I make my desired design, I'll model it with my ten trillion legos. (But seriously, I have a lot of Legos.)
October 25th, 2013,
I gave out my pitch in the campus library. Around fifty people of an audience.
It was a bit bigger than I expected, but it turned out fine. Now that I finished my pitch, I
can start doing research and I could kick off my legit 20% project. I will start on Friday October 25th.
My modeling should start soon. I'll try to even get contact to UC Merced for advice.
A teacher, named Mr. Diele gave me great advice about windowsills. It sounds very specific,but he told me they have to be a certain depth so the sun's heat can't hit through the window in the summer, but so it can during the winter. I told him thanks and he wished me luck.