Architectural Essays

 A narrative essay by Jazmin Guzman                The city of Paranaque located in Metro Manila is a city known for having problems. As a citizen of this city, I have come face to face with the inadequacies of the city that plagues its citizens and passerbys of the city. As a city in Metro Manila, it is a given that the traffic is congested, although I could say it is much worse in the city of Paranaque. The access road of Merville that connects the city to SLEX from different barangays and nearby cities. It takes almost an hour for a few kilometers of road with how terrible the traffic is. The reason for this heavy traffic is bottle-necking of roads and poor urban design of the area. The establishments are placed where roads have only one lane and as a result, the road cannot accommodate the vehicles.                  Another problem of the city is the public transportation. The demand for public transportation is greater than the public transport units and this causes a deficit of p

 

 A descriptive essay by Jazmin Guzman               The covid-19 pandemic has become a catalyst of change globally. The changes that occur during this phenomenon can be seen in almost every aspect in the human life. The effects of this global occurrence juxtapose to life before it is perceivable in a micro perspective from the spread of the covid-19 virus in the air as well as in a large-scale perspective as it affected the employment rate of an economy. The adjustment of the people to live a life that is safe from the harmful effects of the covid-19 is taken into caution by every citizen and I am no exception in this        My life has been changed by the pandemic. I wake up and pick up my phone to see a headline about the pandemic in social media as supposed to entertaining memes from life before. A reminder of the pandemic is the first thing I’ll see as I scroll pass posts in social media. I’ll then get up to get ready, making sure I fix my smile underneath the face mask. The pandem

  A REVIEW OF PAUL KAHN’S “COVIC: COLLECTING VISUALIZATIONS OF COVID-19 TO OUTLINE A SPACE OF POSIBILITIES.”   GUZMAN, JAZMIN I. BS ARCHITECTURE  AR135 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS   (SUMMARY)   The COVID-19 pandemic began in China in January 2020 and spread rapidly throughout the world. As a result, there was a sudden increase in data visualizations in print and online to communicate the new phenomenon. The global impact of COVID-19 caught everyone by surprise and motivated the collection of visualizations. The ease of access to data visualization software, the rising popularity of data journalism, and the ability to share images on social media all contributed to this collecting activity. The question is raised as to why collect these visualizations at all as they become historical artifacts and may not hold value for certain groups of people such as data journalists, design students, or virologists. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a disruption in daily life and a sense of uncer