This is the Library Quarter. It was built in 2013 in Spijkenisse, Netherlands. It is currently 1700 m^2 and was built very symmetrically triangle. Even though it is called a library, it also contains a supermarket and also offices on that site. On the top side of the buildings are living quarters where people can live as apartments. I think it is interesting that the buildings are all homologous. The color and shape remind me of an ancient village.

https://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/112/library-quarter

MVRDV Architects created this small project called the Didden Village in 2006 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was created for the purpose of giving a residential area for local people. It is very small, only 120 m^2. It is on a rooftop of a historical building and atelier. There are multiple bedrooms for each person in order to keep privacy.

https://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/132/didden-village

This is the Gwangju Folly. Located in Gwangju, South Korea. It was created in 2017 for the purpose of education for children and as a decore. This place is considered a folly because it is a small intervention that is not taken too seriously in the area. It is only 960 m^2. This is to revitalize the urbanization that is occurring in the area.

https://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/300/gwangju-folly

This is the Ilot de l’Octroi. It is located in Rennes, France. The design was on site in 2016 and has been there for commercial and residential use. it is 8200 m^2. The architects were inspired by rocks and the geometry was based on natural rock formations like mountains and hills.

https://www.mvrdv.nl/projects/252/ilot-de-l%E2%80%99octroi

This building is a Pho restaurant in Northside OKC. It is really small and very homey. The people there are really nice and the food is really good. When I think of this place, it reminds me of the first time I had pho. I used to live in Texas and when I moved to Oklahoma I had pho for the first time and it was so good that I always asked my parents to make me pho all the time. This restaurant brings back memories of childhood which makes me sad.

This is a little building I went by in Solvang, California. I took a picture of this little alleyway because it was very cute and small. All the buildings reminded me of Snow White huts because of how everything was very European. I went with my family last year during Spring. Apparently California rarely rains and while we were visiting this small town it rained a lot.

This is the apartment complex my grandma used to live at back in Busan, South Korea. Nothing was really special about this place, but it had a lot of memories in it. Behind these apartment complexes were big mountains we used to hike for fun and eat wild strawberries. My grandma lived on the 15th floor of the last building so we never used air conditioning because the air was so cool at night. This place brings a lot of happiness in my heart.

This place is a very sentimental place for me because as a child I would spend most of my time here while my dad was going to school.  This is the campus area for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. There were lots of Koi fish and I would go here often with my dad and feed it white bread. Next to me in the yellow building was the library. There I would rent books and cassette tapes of my favorite shows like TMNT and Veggie Tales.