Blog Post 1/ UNCG Walk

                Through the walk around UNCG I learned a lot of new things about circles, stacking, and grouping. Things I would not have realized or even took the time to really appreciate. I don’t know if how campus was set up was thought about with these three components or if it is a just a ritual society has become used to.  I realized a lot with circles.  An example of Circles is on the left where the heart of how structures and other things are set up.  A circle is the center of all great things. At UNCG on College Avenue they have circles every couple of yards all along the sidewalk. It was interesting that the biggest circle was the circle where the EUC was on one side the ends of College Avenue are on other sides where you can see big buildings and then the other side is another building. It was representing the heart of campus where the center of campus stood. The other small circles were at cross walks and also pointing to the ends of the sidewalk.  This also showed a main area where sidewalks interlinked.

Another aspect I saw was grouping. A lot of buildings and areas on campus are set up to group certain things. The EUC is made to group other buildings because it is the main spot on campus. Dorms are grouped so students can all be close together and have an area just for social and living. Parking decks as well are grouped to have many big buildings and areas around because the majority of traffic for students is these buildings. The recreation center is grouped around the fields for easy access and to have that athletic feel to it. I chose the picture below to show a parking area but grouped by many buildings because it is logical and convenient for parking.

Stacking was the other thing we viewed when walking around UNCG. The alumni house and the curry building were good examples of this. They both had a neoclassical design to them meaning that they were symmetrical. They showed stacking well because of their columns.  They were evenly spaced and stacked to hold up the front well. It shows great stacking by the huge steps up to the building or top of what the structure is. It starts big a gets smaller where the house, or whatever it is will be on the top.

All of these details are rituals now because of how many years they have been used. We use circles to show major and important parts of our environment. We group major things in our environment for better access and to show what part of this environment the area might be. Stacking in our environment shows masculine features to show importance. For example pillars to show this is a place of greatness or royalty.