here's a rough run through of points i think we should hit:
- intro: a solution to urban gardening is having a mini garden outside your window
- cost efficient - growing vegetables cost less than going to the grocery store
- cost of growing and transporting produce from other countries is expensive. by growing food outside your window, this will reduce air pollution and gasoline cost.
- less traffic on weekends when everybody is going to the grocery shopping to stock up
- effective use of space - form is designed to the human scale (mention dimensions...)
- fresh vegetables taste better than commercially mass produced items
- self sufficient -
- hydroponic & water collection system
- managing temperature & humidity
- ventilation
- NOT obtrusive. If it is close to a neighboring window, then the object provides passive lighting--due to the angle of the sun, it provides shade during the high summer suns while allowing low winter sun rays inside to the neighbor below! as a result, the sun's rays will heat the room less in the summer and more in the winter by comparison.
- takes time to garden BUT the times used will be much more effective and rewarding than other household hobbies (watching tv, internet, driving around to grocery store waiting in traffic, etc.)
- how our solution fulfills requirements:
- shapes cover curved surfaces
- exposes
- DESIGN 1: pentagonal hexecontahedron
- designed to enclose something
- pentagons to make curved surface
- DESIGN 2: pentagonal tesselations & folding panel system
- these techniques become the basis for ventilation and sunlight system
- more polygons for curved surface
- DESIGN 3: modification of form with working water system
- shapes form curve at selected points to reduce potential material waste, and reduce unusable space
- DESIGN 4: final design
- improved aesthetics of design 3
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