Progress during Midterm Week!

October 26th, 2012, 11:08 am

This week was the midterm presentation week for all the groups in Green Corridor Class. Apart from this, we have a few new things to report with regards to our project: Sidewalk Furniture Design.

Most importantly, we have managed to obtain 21 tires in order to build our public seat. This past Sunday, we drove a van and a car to pick up the tires from 2408 Edna Street. We got to know about it from an advertisement in kijiji, which was giving away old tires for free. The tires were stored outside of a building, which caused the tires to accumulate a fair amount of water inside them. Therefore, before packing them up in the van and the car we desperately tried to empty the water out. This proved to be somewhat of a difficult task, which led us to re-think our design a bit, so the tires don’t house any water as Patricia pointed out during our presentation if our design allows for water to accumulate then this can be a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

Rafi is loading the van with tires.

Our current design for the bench is currently more of a guideline than to a blueprint for what will come. This is because we are doing a trial and error process in order to build our Public Seating Space and Decoration. No one in the group has past experience or knowledge with building anything of this nature so in order to obtain a final product that is suitable for the community it will take a lot of patients and thinking.

Portia Crosswell painted a picture of the group trying to cut the tire with a jigsaw.

Little success was made last weekend when we attempted to cut a tire using a jigsaw borrowed from Lebel. We ran into problems cutting past the metal wires within the tire. With more discussion and research, we were able to take out more appropriate cutting tools to better experiment with this coming weekend.

Stay tuned for the update!

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Halfway through already?!?!

June 1st, 2010, 4:14 pm

We did our midterm presentation in Thursday’s class. In the presentation, we talked about all the things we had done and the future plans which included the mind map at the beginning, the difficulty of the communication with the Campus Community Garden Project, cooperation with the wild flower group, and last but not least, the idea of implementing a Green Corridor sign at the Ecohouse. After listening to the advice of the “star-studded” panel, we realized that there were still a lot of things that need to be improved.

Here is the list of the things we need to do next:

1. make the purpose of the sign more clear
2. do more research on the design of the sign
3. pay attention on selecting the material for the sign which should be stronger
4. learn the experience and knowledge from other groups and use them in our project
5. work together and brainstorm the problem we face
6. think about the suggestion of square gardening
7. Incorporate our difficult experiences into our report
8. seek other opportunities for the eco house beyond designing the sign
9. think about the question of “who will look after the garden in the future?” and try to find right solution
   

   Design for the Ecohouse sign (1)

Ecohouse Sign Design (2)

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