Architecture andUrban planning

DUNDAS SQUAREToronto, Canada

In SECOND LIFE

INTRODUCTION

HI EVERYBODY I’m Jessenia Clemente, I study urban planning at Simón Bolívar

University (USB), Caracas, Venezuela.

This work summarize the content of the “English for architects and urban planners” course……

Trough the analysis of “dundas square” (Toronto, Canada), you’re going to see the concepts we worked in class, such as color, texture, light, rhythm,

circulation, space and scale.

Enjoy it!!! color

light

texture

rhythm

circulation

space

scale

Yonge-Dundas square

Is a privately owned and administered public square in downtown Toronto, Canada………………

Commonly called Dundas square

It has the gray of the city during the day, because of the granite and the concrete.. And it has many plants too..

In the night, you see the square surrounded by animated advertising screens that make it colorful……………….

Many events take place in this amazing public space.

It has an interesting shape, it’s like a square with a triangle taken out of one side, because an important street bends at the square..

This part has a linear system of concrete pilars supporting a structure

There is an array of fountains which are the centrepiece of the square… These fountains formed the main walkway of the place.

You can play and pass trough them

As it is a public open space, it has many entrances, and natural lighting

The square has several levels, it has a space where concerts and other performances take place……..

The Dundas square is not at the level of the street, architects designed it to stand in a higher level, to make it interesting..

Tall buildings formed the edges of the square…

Real life pictures

In conclusion

In second life, we can easily understand how places work…. All the aspects I mencioned on the presentation are represented in the locations in second life, so, it is a great resource to architects, and urban planners, to study and create interesting places.

In conclusion

If we compare the cities in second life with those in real life (taken dundas as a example) we notice that they are not so different in terms of the spaces and structures.

It was a great way to study…..