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For this sketch exercise I mapped out a very small part of campus that is mostly centered around the portion of Cambridge where I find myself walking often when not in class. This is the region where JFK Street meets Memorial Drive near the Charles…

Sitting in the Starbucks at the corner of Mass Ave. and JFK feels like being in the center of the world. You are the axis around which activity turns. I chose this view as the vantage point for my map because it captures the buzz I associate with…

Although I initially sought out to draw the most accurate map of Harvard I could by memory, my sketch turned out to be a map of what is important to me in my daily life at Harvard. Most evidently, Harvard Yard is the most accurate part of the map and…

Upon comparing my sketch with the official campus map, I was pleasantly surprised by its (relative) accuracy - perhaps a sign that, as a senior, I've been around here too long. There are a few things, however, that I noted based on my sketch. One is…

My sketch focuses on providing functional information to the viewers as I believe the essence of urban design is to serve diverse needs of the population. To highlight this idea, I specifically marked commercial stores and building functions around…

I started my first draft by drawing the roads first and then trying to fit the buildings in, but soon realized it would be impossible because I couldn’t picture the different roads and their relation to each other. Instead, I decided to draw…

This is a sketch of Harvard Yard, where all Harvard undergraduates live during their freshman year. I chose to draw this because it is by far the most familiar part of Harvard to me. Obviously, because I live here (Lionel Hall to be exact), I spend…

This is a birds eye view of the area surrounding the MAC Quad. I chose this area because I live in Kirkland and I am very familiar with this area and knew I would be able to reproduce it well from memory. The scale may be slightly off and I do not…

I was concerned about this project because I have a terrible sense of direction. Part of it is due to the fact that because of a leg condition I have, I have not walked around too much and been able to explore large areas as much as others. Also,…

This assignment turned out to be much more difficult than I anticipated. I started by sketching the yard, but quickly found the both the river and the Quad were too far away for me to accurately render. Eventually I figured that drawing the map…