BP 3 Feb. 4 field trip

I believe the MHRA had a good example of commodity, firmness, and delight. Although the music people had a better score in delight I feel as though the MHRA did a good job in firmness and commodity. The MHRA had good light for the entrance to with the huge windows surrounding the foyer part of the building. The lighting was natural from shining in from the top which gave it a nice appeal. The materials in the building were not as great like the music people but served purpose and looked pleasing for the human eye for people that are not design majors. The materials in the MHRA were tile floors, with granite or stone imbedded into the tile in certain areas to form a circle that pointed to doors on the opposite side almost like the North Star helping find your way. There was metal that went up the windows almost as columns for structure. The huge glass structures in my opinion are there for help in exiting and entering. The axis always leads you to a door with glass. It allows light to come in as if there were no light in the building you could see some light out the glass to get out. The columns in the foyer of the MHRA were hollow to serve purpose for security fobs but they did their purpose to show a nice elegant feel to the building on the inside. It also uses different color walls to contrast the main lobby into a smaller lobby with a stone like grey. Out of ten I would give the MHRA a 5 in a designers view but in normal students it would serve as a very nice building. The commodity for the MHRA in my opinion scored fairly high. Its function is to serve as a place of learning as well as offices for research. The space was done well with classes near the rear part of the building and the offices at the big foyer opening to give those offices a more elegant feel. Inside the office it was two times nicer than the rest of the building because it serves more of a purpose for business elegance. They had granite table tops and stone in the walls along with carpet. The tiles in the MHRA show axis well I thought too. The roof almost matched the floor tiles and in a way was a road to show you what way to go. The MHRA I thought did a pretty good job as well to show an important structure in our university. It’s on the corner of the busiest street in our campus and the big window entrance is on the corner with steps as if it’s important. Going out of the building doesn’t really lead you into anything really important by the way the entrance was set but it does well with the four corners on the street to lead you up those stairs. The EUC is close by and registration building which makes up for it some. I think the MHRA shows in a good way of where our campus is going. Were growing a lot and putting up a lot of new structures. I think it is showing that we are growing to be a big school and that we are not going to have education buildings but offices that represent what that education in the building is. The MHRA is a building for research and the offices in there are set for that purpose as well. Our campus is growing fast and this building shows by its looks that this is a serious place for education.