Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Time to Sleep


Children like to sleep in tents.


i guess if you tired enough, you will sleep anywhere including a playground.


Unfortunately, we have people that sleep on the streets

The airport is the perfect place to find people sleeping.


I know its a convenient store, but i did not know you could sleep in the convenient store.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Precedent Study: Baths of Diocletian


CAPitalizing on RE-USE

Assignment: all items used to build your bottle cap model must be salvaged or biodegradable. expect to justify all of your materials through the lens of "Radical simplicity".

just some ideas


when i first received this project, i googled bottle caps to see what images i could find. after getting some ideas i thought about doing jewelry or either a trash can. but i decided on neither because after hearing others ideas, i found out that my original idea was not so original.

1st model



the idea behind my first model was a pencil holder. for the first model i only did a portion of the idea. this idea did not get chosen because it was held together with glue and of course glue is not recyclable. but i guess that what first ideas are.

the final product





if you look closely, you are able to see the whole and the wire being weaved through.


this is the inside of the bag. we mixed smaller lids with larger lids to create the bottom. i thought that this was a very interesting picture.


me and my partner finally decided to do a grocery bag. something that is used on an everyday basis that gets easily thrown in the trash. we made our grocery bag out of plastic lids and wire. we puched holes in the lids and connected them by weaving the wire through them. when looking for the lca of plastic lids i was unable to find it because many websites show that it is hard to tell the lca of plastic.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

A Simple Mixture Presentation

The last step of our nature as a tool project was to present our project. My group members were Hannah Daugherty, Jazmine Hairston, and Ashley Blackburn.



Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Drafting from Handout

Assignment: Follow the directions on the handout using a 1/2": 1' scale. Then create a model using a 3/4": 1' scale.

Scale Sketch




Vellum Sketch


Doors and Bathrooms

Assignment: Complete assignment in Ching, page 140-141.

Scale Sketch



Vellum Sketch

Fisher House

Assignment: Complete the assignment from Ching, page 139.

Scale Sketch



Vellum Sketch