1. Mikey Goralnik
Yushuan Ji
Du Xinbo
20/20 Hindsight
Evaluating, analyzing, and
Rethinking the park shops plaza
sitting (alone)
sitting (group)
walking
(alone + group)
2. Process
PHASE I: General Observation
• preliminary site analysis
• informal interviews
• archival research
PHASE II: Focused Observation
• behavior maps
• questionnaires
• photos + videos
PHASE III: Analysis +
Recommendations
5. Archival
• Least helpful, but interesting
• Built in 1914; served as the
headquarters for facilities
• 2009 renovation was an
explicit rejection of its
previous uselessness to students
Anecdotal
• Exploratory; to see if there were
any themes we were missing
• N=10: “Where are you going?
Where are you coming from? Do
you like it here?
• Basis for more formal
questionnaire
6. Behavior mapping
Sommer + Sommer: “…systematically recording people’s actions and behaviors.”
• Place-based (sedentary) protocol three discrete activities
• Mapped paths of travel
• Three times per day, for five days, two maps per time30 different maps
• 266 total dots
26. Patterns + Intuition
Popularity
of Ledges
Inefficient
bench use
Improve existing
ledge facilities and
replace benches with
sittable planters
• Reference existing design
features
• Unite north and south
sides of Stinson Dr.
• Facilitate interaction