Our opinion about Westgate Shopping Centre

The Westgate Shopping Centre is an old building on 1960. This building is colourated grey and many people don't enter because it doesn't give a good impression.
We visited the Westgate Shopping Centre to understand what is needed to improve this structure. This building has an small entrace and it's an obstacle for disable people .
This Shopping Centre has many different shops (from a music shop to a boutique).
I don't like the placement of the Supermarket (Sunsbury's Local), because it isn't near the entrace. The large corridor is beautiful but it isn't very confortable for old people and the children, it needs confortable benches and a creche with a baby sitter because the mothers can't find their babies when they visit the shopping centre. Then it needs more floor space where put other shop and various types of shops.
Westgate can be better if it more green space, because the people who want go to buy and visit the Westgate must stay in a confortable place and the green can be a good place to relax.

People's reaction to our design for a new post office

On Friday 23rd March, we went to the Clarendon centre to show some people our design for a new post office in the Westgate. We chose this project because we think only one post office in a city such as Oxford isn't sufficient.

People's reaction to our design was quite good, because they were enthusiastic about our original idea of creating a post office in a shopping centre.

They said that it would be good to build it near the entrance, and they also gave us a suggestion; they thought that we should enlarge the area for cashiers.

Visit on castle complex

On Wednesday 21/03/07 we went to castle complex in Oxford that before was a big prision where the criminals were pulished. Now in this castle there is a hotel, a restaurant and a shops but the surprise was that the owner of the italian restaurant. One part of the hotel looked very ugly because there isn't a good view from inside, another part of the hotel is very nice because there is a big garden,. The castle has a medieval style has in 1071 but it also presents a modern style expecially in the building where the hotel is. The castle is very big and beautiful garden. The windows are similar to the windows of the prision and it has a black door built in 1071.

What people would like to change in the Westgate

Most people answered positivly
Some of them would like to add :
A cafe
Many toilets
A creche
An information point
Some of them said that the Westgate is a complete shopping centre.
they don`t want smoking area and no vending machines.
So according to these information we could change the design of the Westgate

My role in interviewing people about our design for a new Post Office.

This morning, I went with my class (Castellammare 1) to interview people about the new design of a "Post Office" in the Westgate Shopping Centre.

My role was camera man, but people didn't want to be filmed.

In my opinion I think that English people are very cold and in this interview my role wasn't important.

People's reactions to our design for a new post office

Today, we went to the "Clarendon Centre" to interview people to find out their think about our post office project in the "Westgate Shopping Centre".
Some people as usual were very busy so we could interview a few people that gave us positive feedback but they had to say that there weren't any kiosks and the spaces between two kiosks was very little but in general they agreed.

People's reactions to our design for a new post office

This morning, we went to the "Clarendon Centre" to show some people our design for a new post office in Oxford and to find out if it's a good project.

A lot of people said that it's a good project and a lovely design, because it's in a shopping centre and so a lot of people can go to other shops and also to the post office, but a few people said it isn't a good idea to build a post office in a shopping centre, but they didn't say why. Some people said our design is big enough.