project two

For this project I wanted to create a way to make gardening more accessible to those living in urban areas.. I didn't want it to be too site specific but I wanted it to make it easier to garden in winter and not too space demanding so it could fit on apartment balconies and small gardens .

For this I thought of an affordable, environmentally friendly greenhouse that is flat packed and easy to set up. I wanted  to design it so it was able to be taken down gin and moved to a different location making it easier for those who rent.

I sketched  few designs.

I settled on a lean too design as it would be the best use of space and two could lean back to back for economic use of space.


here is my design pitch poster

late blogging project 1 b

So after my light sourcing I pretty much started on designing and making my light. I decided I would use wire to act asthe main structure for my light and I would laser cut a piece of acrylic to hold them together and to act as a base. It took me a while bending all the pieces of wire to shape and fitting them with eggs but after that I didnt have a huge amount of work to do. I laser cut my pieceto act as a base and then spent the last two evenings before the hand in constructing it and finishing it. It was the easiest to construct due to the shape and the materiel's but I am pleased with how it came out.

My bogging has been very late. Far too late. like all of the design students Ive been pretty busy during the last week and kept procrastinating far too long.

late blogging. project 1 b

Ok time for some late blogging. Some vary late blogging. Half way through the study break I realised thsat I didnt have anywhere enough for my EL wire creation and was going to have to think a bit smaller if I was going to be able to make anything. I did some more precident gathering and research and  and looked at cheap bright colourful lighting solutions.

I looked mostly at LEDs and what I could do with them

Basically I wanted something bright colourful and mesmerizing. I didn't have the money to do anything controlled by an arduino or anything so I looked at what I could do with cheap mass produced parts.

 I sketched a bit to see what kind of shape I wanted and came up with a flower inspired design where as the lights would be on the end of stamen like objects drawing the eye and the person in like a flower does with an insect.

I  looked online at what I could get a lot of and saw led thees led colour changing eggs, they weren't very interesting with one but with several the colour changing looked very impressive and eye catching so I decided I would use them as my light sources so I ordered 40 of them planning to use 30 and having spares in case there were a few that didn't work.