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Project Blaze: Rhythmic Shape Creation Roguelike
Get PDFCreate circles with player movement to build a pivot meter, to then expend the pivot meter to enter slow mode. In slow mode, the player can make polygon shapes that destroy monsters
Urban Planning for Regional Food Equity
Get PDF47 million people, including 14 million children, face food insecurity in the United States of America annually. Defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as: when people don’t have enough to eat and don’t know where their next meal will come from. Food insecurity is a systemic issue caused by systems greater than any individual failure. Poverty and unemployment, lack of affordable housing, chronic public health issues, racism and discrimination all play a role in the state of American food security (Feeding America, n.d.). A tenet of this research and project development is the right of all people, regardless of identity, to grow, produce, and/ or consume nutritious, affordable, and culturally preferred food.
This project explores how urban planners and adjacent professionals can utilize methods of plan making, policy, and design, to create regional food equity. The first section of this project is a research paper which delves into the six dimensions of regional food equity, as defined by Yeeli Mui in the Journal of the American Planning Association: nutritional adequacy, affordability, cultural relevance, social and spatial equity, and popular agency in the food system. The paper explores historic context, current trends, and case studies which reflect successes and failures to meet the needs of people through the food system.
The following section of this project provides guidance for creating policy and plans to support regional food equity, based on the six aforementioned dimensions. The guidance is structured to outline the plan’s vision and goals, factual basis, implementation actions, monitoring and planning processes.
Furthermore, this project analyzes three food systems plans for regional equity: City of San Diego Environmental Justice Element (2024), Chicago Metropolitan Agency for
Planning Go To 2040 Chicago Regional Comprehensive Plan (2010), and City of Austin- Travis County Food Plan (2024). To varying degrees, the plans address and create the context, needs, and policy to support their local food systems. Each plan was evaluated and annotated based on the criteria outlined in the guidance.
The final two sections of this project delve into urban agriculture and community gardens as a method of improving regional food equity. The section opens with a continued research paper which explores historic context, current trends, and case studies which reflect the opportunities and challenges of urban agricultural solutions for achieving food equity.
Inspired by strategic goals outlined in the Austin/Travis County Food Plan (2024), the final section of the project creates a conceptual design for community agriculture in Del Valle, Texas; a Travis County community just outside the City of Austin boundary. The concept explores the opportunity for a public community garden project to be incorporated on Travis County land adjacent to an existing social services hub. While theory and research supports the positive impact of urban agriculture for increased food security, this project was completed without local guidance or feedback. Outside of this academic context, engagement with food-insecure individuals throughout the planning process is necessary to ensure that solutions meet their needs and foster a sense of ownership
Cal Poly Gateway Decathlon: Cost Estimation and Planning for a Sustainable Mass Timber Home
Get PDFThe Gateway Decathlon is an international collegiate competition that challenges university teams to design, build, estimate, and operate innovative and sustainable housing solutions. Cal Poly SLO’s entry to the competition is a mass timber single family home addressing sustainability, energy efficiency, and climate change issues in California. The research of this paper focuses on cost estimation and project planning concerning equipment and labor specifically. The aim is to create a feasible and accurate construction budget. While previous efforts have been conducted on this project, design changes and new scope additions require a comprehensive reassessment of the material, labor and equipment costs associated with these changes. Through the analyzation of architectural, structural, and MEP design documents, an updated cost analysis using industry resources and past project data has been created. The findings provide an accurate financial framework for the design and construction of the project, ensuring a functional and efficient resource allocation. This research contributes to the broader study of industrialized sustainable construction and demonstrates economic and logistical implications required for designing and constructing a mass timber home
Vanlife Desalination
Get PDFVan life can be defined as the unconventional lifestyle of living in a car, van, or motor vehicle. Living in a motor vehicle allows for you to effectively live in whatever location you deem fit, and with that comes certain standards that need to be met; one being fresh potable water used for drinking, hygiene, and basic living. The scope of this project is to design a system that can effectively remove salt from seawater (desalinate) and can be integrated into a van that can be used for off-grid living.
In this project we worked to create a design that allows for our sponsor, Dr. Patrick Lemieux, to desalinate water using a system that can be installed and run from a van. This project used both high-pressure and low-pressure pumps to achieve the flow necessary to push water through a sea-strainer, pre-filtration system, and reverse-osmosis membrane. Since we are dealing with desalinated water, we ensured that the hoses and fittings used were correctly rated for correct pressure and human consumption.
This document outlines the research, ideation, and prototyping that are necessary for Dr. Lemieux to install a desalination device onto his van and test its performance with seawater. The current prototype is a running system, but further design changes, analysis, and testing are needed to satisfy all specification requirements that Dr. Lemieux’s desires