The Finale

Throughout this project, we made some interesting observations and learnt some new things. Our view of urban areas, with particular respect to the buildings found in urban areas, has changed. All of our buildings came from both major cities, San fernando and Port-of-Spain, as well as the borough, Chaguanas.

Previously, there were two different responses towards both major cities. For Port-of-Spain, we had an image of new, and modern buildings. Only having trekked through the the city on a hot Saturday morning did we discover the 'sore spots' or buildings that were not as newly built. These buildings were never noticed by us formerly. However, most of the older, derelict buildings seemed to be in the process of being restored. It was shocking to us that the capital city contained such historic structures. However, the opposite was observed for San Fernando, where most buildings are still older and it was not thought to have as many newer buildings as compared to Port-of-Spain. We saw that there were pockets of development which can speak to the emerging development of the second major city in the country.

The disparities in both areas were also larger than we anticipated, with very new and modern buildings on one side of a road and old buildings on the other side; this was seen in both cities.

We visited several of our colleague's blogs, and a few had particularly close themes to ours. Firstly, this blog related to our private hospital post.
Also, a post that shows the differences between the outcomes of older buildings is this one, from Jason's and Andre's blog, which shows how an old fire station was converted into what is now the NALIS library. This is an interesting comparison to the abandoned fire station that was spoken about in San Fernando.
Finally, we acknowledged that there was also, in this post talk about the disparity within an area, They spoke about the Sea Lots area being right before the CBD, with skyscrapers and built up areas. This can be compared to our post, where the disparities over a small space can be seen.

Overall, this was a very interesting and fulfilling experience.