09-02-2014

During the class Professor King went through an overall review of every tab and every specific on open lab; he also had an open lab tutorial to guide us through the most important things like how to make a team member Administrator, posting blog entries, creation of categories, media which is your attachments, glossary, tables, rows columns and links.

The professor explained to the class how to be able to organize the teams project website by making a table with < table > to start it and < / table > to end it. He also explained how to organize the rows and the columns with < TR > and < /TR > and < TD > to start a column and < TD/ > to close the column.

Then as teams we picked a topic we were interested on, Team 3 choose ADA- circulation including stairs and etc. then the professor explained the general idea of the research that has to be done based on the topic and what could be some main focus of the topic.

The lecture of the day was Zoning which is the reason behind the shaping of the city. He started off with an example of the building located on the High Line by Iveil M Denari which is a great example, because zoning is a main cause that determines the buildings shape. Zoning is broken down into XII Articles and also 18 different groups. The professor also explained to the class what Bonuses were considered and explained that its more space being added to the Floor Area Ratio in exchange for giving back to the community with things like a plaza or a arcade. a Bonus request needs to be approved by the city and is used as for every square feet you giving back to the community you then get a bonus of square footage added to the FAR.