RRSLA INTERNSHIP BLOG

Hello everyone, My dad and my uncle planned to open a teahouse at the end of last year. They thought I can give them some ideas and suggestions, so they started to contacting with the design firm after I finish my isolation. After about half a year, the teahouse opened at the beginning of this month. I will also go to the teahouse to helpfter I finish my works at AECOM, and also every weekend.  During the design and construction of the teahouse, I learned a lot about how interior design and landscape design become a "real thing". This was the first time that I playing the role of client and i ntern at the same time.  This experience is so unique and definitly benefited me a lot. I will write a few blogs about how teahouse builted out after I finish my internship at the end of this week. I think these two experience are both important to me.  Let me share with you the final look of our teahouse. Hope you will like it! Main Entrance Seating Area Small Water Feature Outdoor Seat

 Hello everyone,   This week I am working on a regional planning project, this project is to design a riverside area. The place is located in Dazhou City in Sichuan Province. Although it is a important transportation link connecting western China, it has not been paid attention for a long time because of topographical restriction and wrong development models. Also, because this area is far away from big cities and lacks high-quality education resources and job opportunities, young people are more willing to move to big cities in recent years. This causing serious population loss in this area. The purpose of this project to develop this area and make it become an ecological city in western China.

SPRING HAS SPRUNG! 💜 Hi everyone, the snow is melting and the flowers are blooming here in Aspen. The weather has been beautiful these past few weeks & I am super excited to experience a summer outside of the Louisiana heat! We are finally experiencing some rain showers, which makes me super happy. I have missed rainy days. ❤ I am a cyclist now. 😉 I have enjoyed biking the Rio Grande trail, which is a 42 mile trail from Glenwood to Aspen. Yesterday I biked 32 miles!! It is super exhausting biking through the mountains, but it is also so fulfilling.  Biking in the rain :-) Rio Grande Trail Rainy Days Work update: I am still working on Paradise Mesa Ranch. I have been picking up redlines on the sheet series this week as well as updating illustratives with changes from the architects. Here is an update on the perspectives : Also, I will be fully vaccinated tomorrow!! YAYYY 

 Hey guys, These blogs get more and more depressing when I realize that we don't have that much longer in our internships. I am having a wonderful time here and work is getting better and better. Since we lost one of the team mates we have picked up a new hire. Her name is Kat and she is a grad student from Texas A&M. She's super nice and brings a lot to the table. It's also pretty nice not being the new person anymore. Since Kat was hired we recently found out that we are losing another team member. Melina is taking another job so we are going back to square 1. I think we might be looking for another hire but haven't found one just yet. So with all that being said, we are yet again about to have another large load of work now that she will be gone. Honestly, I like it when it is super busy because the days go by super quick. I have recently been shuffling through working on a couple residential projects as well as some commercial. I just recently had my first permi

Hey y'all! Not sure how many people are going to continue their blog since the semester is over, but i figured I would still try and give an update every now and then.  Work:  Not too much has happened with work since my last post. The owner of Bosshard ranch recently explained to us that he wants to hold off on the project until lumber and other materials prices have come back to more normal prices. 3 creek hasn't progressed much, although today we have a design charrette with the architects. Bear Island has been my main focus lately. Lots of design changes between DW, the architects, and the client. I've had to go back and edit a lot of cad work and graphics. I also never realized how many rules and regulations came with building a driveway. You have to have turnouts and turnarounds every so many feet in Teton County, so it's been interesting helping figure out the best approach for the driveway. Now that the snow has melted, I will be going out to my first site visit

 Hello my fellow nature lovers, It is finally May and I am finally getting to see spring in the valley! I am very excited about this and ready to see some lush vegetation now that all the snow has melted. I have been exploring a lot around my little home and there are so many hikes I want to check out. Emily recently moved in with me and now we're a little family of three (me, tsuki and em). It's nice to have someone around so I'm not so lonely. We went on a bike ride the other day and found this beautiful crabapple tree that Emily almost fell out of. Other than that, my cousins and sister are coming to visit me this week. I am so excited to show them around and get some time off of work. We plan ongoing to the hot springs, horseback riding, and plenty of hikes. I'm sad that I only have three months left here, I don't think I ever want to leave. The past two weeks I feel like I have learned a lot and gotten more responsibilities from my project managers. They have a

  Currently I am working on three different projects, two of them are commercial center, another one more like a regional planning instead of landscape architecture. I really like the one of the commercial center design, because it’s very unique than other regular commercial center.   This project is located at Suzhou, an ancient city with more than two thousand five hundred years in China. This commercial is built on an embankment for about 20 years, compared with previous years, the number of visitors has decreased a lot. The purpose of this project is to re-design this commercial area, to make it more unique and attract more visitors. For this project, we designed both landscape and the building façade. We want this commercial street has more local characteristics to show the culture of this city and attract more tourist from other city. We also want young people to experience the traditional culture in the process of modernization. Because this project is still under design, I

Hello everyone! I hope that you are all well!  Work has still been pretty busy the past few weeks. I feel like I am getting better at AutoCAD though, which is very exciting. I am by no means great at it, and I could stand to be much faster while working, but I still get excited about any progress that I see. I have been working on a lot of planting plans and lists recently. I think this has been pretty fun. The office likes to use a ton of Clethras and Hydrangeas. There are so many varieties of each, and it's neat to see how they can be layered together in a planting design. I have also done some rendering lately. This is usually either concept plans or perspectives. For our perspectives, we tend to use SketchUp models or photos as the base image, which we then can spice up in Photoshop. I think these are a lot of fun to create because a lot of designing happens during this process. Hopefully, I will get to work on another illustrative planting plan soon, but we’ll see. Things outs

 First Week in the Office This past week our office went back to the office for the first time since I've been working there. The office has been available to anybody that wanted to go in but no one was really going in unless they needed to. Everybody in the office has been vaccinated and two weeks beyond their second shot or whatever, it's just kind of weird to be around people again. Apparently, every Monday Dana treats everyone to lunch, so that's a nice treat. I actually got less work done this week than in the past weeks because there were a lot more interruptions. It was nice when I had a question to be able to walk to someone's desk and just get an answer but having to put real clothes on is kind of bullshit. The biggest downside is that because I don't want to work so late at the office I actually had to work a full day on Friday instead of working longer days early in the week and taking off early on Friday.  I wasn't planning on staying on after this m

 Hey guys!  Can’t believe the school year is officially over and we will be graduating this time next year! I am going to continue working full time at Makaira during the summer. I have yet to decide if I will keep this position when we start school or not. Work this week was very productive with a steady flow of work. We are super busy right now, but thankfully my boss allowed me to take off for a week to visit Chicago! Madeline and I are on our way now with only ~10 hours left of driving.   See y’all in about 3 months! ❤️ -Alyssa

 Hey guys! Hope everyone is doing great, things around here have been good. At work we started to go back to work at the office but still keeping safe for everybody so we trying to keep it at 50% capacity now. But it feels nice to be working at the office and get the chance to talk with people around. For the past weeks I've been working rendering plans on InDesign and Photoshop, keep working on construction documents in CAD and this keep I joined a work session for handrawing tricks and tips with one of the principal , it was really great!  On my las post, I mentioned that I will visit some of the spring festivals around here and I just had to say that it was fun but the best part of it was seen all the wildflowers aside the road and on the open fields. Here are some pictures of it. I wish we have some of this wildflowers blooming everywhere in Louisiana too Next month there will be a spring festival with sunflowers in San Antonio, can't  wait to see it because I'm plannin