Today I went to visit The Moores UCSD Cancer Center. I was told by a friend to go check it out while I am in San Diego for winter break. Going to La Jolla for research can be really delightful. It can be really cerine in so many ways. It offers many state of the art buldings along with some great recreation. Aside all of that, I need to focus on my thesis research. So, I went and found it quite easily. We got there at 5 pm and there was no patients around. It was great to walk around with nobody around. I was able to take pictures of areas like the theater, conference room and lobbies.
After a long semester of learning the basics of what a medical clinic has to offer, I was able to point out every single element of the visitable program in front of me. A lobby three stories high, columns every ten feet along the front of the building. It was definitely is steel frame building. The materials we all stone, wood and glass. A courtyard accessible to everyone, including patients. Natural lighting was used in every way possible to the point where hallways are used to light interior offices with the used of translucent materials and clear stories. The articulation in plan is also seen in elevation and I think this is why this building works in its surrounding environment. The program is easy to understand to and get around and its a clear understanding from public, semipublic and private.
Many mental notes and pictures are now with me to help me with my thesis and hope to find many more places that I can be inspired from before I begin this endeavor.

The Moores UCSD Cancer Center was founded in 1979. The Center is one of just 39 in the United States to hold a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. As such, it ranks among the top centers in the nation conducting basic and clinical cancer research, providing advanced patient care and serving the community through outreach and education programs.

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Occupation : Student

Occupation : Student
I been a full time student for about two years now. I pretty much stopped looking for a job as soon as school got more demanding. I worked as a freelance makeup artist but even that looks outdated on my resume. I cross my fingers as graduation gets closer, finding a job might be a little harder than I'd imagined. I joined grad school thinking that I would ride out the recession, but oh my, it's not over yet and school soon will be over. Now, my interest lays on a very lucrative career. I'm not talking about architecture alone but I'm talking about "medical architecture" and for what I hear, that line of work is doing pretty good through this recession. Now, this interest was developed by a life experience that changed my life. The illness of my father and the realization that even though ADA is on his side, design in hospitals and clinics can be WAY better. I see it as a puzzle. OSHPD and UBC give you a set of rules, with them come limitations. Now it's up to me to make it work and make the best design from it. Sounds simple right?!? Not, really. But, I guess it will all start with that one opportunity that will change my employment status from student to architect. And just like this, I will see how my idea of changing the world might come about someday. For now my occupation is student.


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Location:Sleepless Night

Life...

So, I've been in San Diego for over 3 weeks and have managed to do absolutely nothing with my thesis. I did write a few questions for an interview I plan to do.
Here is what I have so far:


These are a series of question that will help determine what program will better fit a therapy center catering to the veterans and active member of the military suffering from PTSD and other mental disorders.

What is more important in your environment when visiting a therapist?

Do you prefer group therapy or one-on-one therapy?

Do you prefer a building near to public areas ( downtown, ,markets and parks ) or secluded areas away from the public?

Does having access to views and natural light while in therapy important to you.

Do you find it beneficial having a hospital in the vicinity.

Would you take advantages of anemeties such as, exercise rooms, meditation gardens, and other recreational areas.

Rate the importance of the following services available to you at a therapy center. 1 being the lowest 5 being the highest.

Social service
Legal service
Job search assistance
Daycare service


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iPhone 5

Waiting for the new iPhone 5. Having a iPhone that is 3 generations behind has been a pain. Every update makes it slower and less reliable. I think if I were to have an emergency where I would have to use my phone to call 911 I would be out of luck. I don't know who to blame, which giant is the biggest devil, AT&T or Apple. Did they do this
on purpose? Do them make it so that you have to buy a new phone every 2 years because your phone now it's absolute? Either case, that's some funky business and if I were on the other side of the coin it would all make sense.
Still, I don't see myself with an android or a blackberry. So, I will wait till the summer where I will find out if it will be worth changing carriers and who will carry the best iPhone.
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So, today I began the first stages of my thesis.  Many things are in my TO-DO list and I don't know where to begin.  I can start by just simply beginning with the smallest task, but even that seems hard to do.  Avoidance?  No, just too much on a small plate at this moments.  While I start, here are come pictures of the places I'll be looking into for precedence.  

The Salk Institute.

Cancer Center UCSD

Any VA Hospital that offers PTSD meeting...

I'm an Architect Student and I use a gaming computer to do my work!!! Okay, yes, I can see why it might seemed like a little overkill but you don't understand the MADNESS of a computer lab at finals and how every time you hit RENDER you are have a 50 50 chance of loosing all your work! So, I've decided to reach out for the monster computer that will keep me from pulling out my hair this semester. The best computer out there! I know, a lot of gamers out there would be so MAD to learn that a geek like me will not be using this baby to play video games but I plan to use it to its FULL potential. I promise to run Illustrator and CAD and 3D max all at the same time. I promise to let my husband play Call Of Duty on it, and I promise to let any nerd out there drool over it whenever he/she sees it.