Surprise! Surprise!.. Guess what’s next? I can’t say it was at all a shock the news we received Monday after our critique of Jenga 4.0. The groups of three we now have are about to become groups of six. My first reaction was nervousness mostly because just recently the laser cutter was put to rest so all I could think about was cutting a model of an 8-story structure, by hand! My fingers began to tingle a bit. However on the bright side, I’m lucky enough to be working with three more talented designers.
The first group we were paired with was Interlocking (Jaman, Brian and Audra). Audra was absent but Brian and Jaman definitely stepped up to the plate and handled business. Combining both of our concepts wasn’t as hard as I imagined it to be. We jumped right in. The game of Tetris was a large inspiration for our combined design idea. The stacking of our individual buildings in a specific manner resembled the game in that each piece is a different shape and size but they fit together to form a whole. We placed a glass elevator directly up the center where all spaces had access, as well as, fire stairs on either side. When it came to the tasks at hand, everyone took initiative and volunteered to complete the job they felt most comfortable with. Brian did an amazing job in Sketch Up putting together all this in about 10 minutes time. Jaman and Jasmine worked on the circulation diagrams, Alyssa on the proposal and I added the details of material on the printed detail and axon view of the proposed structure. Not horrible in an hour’s time. As a collection we came up with the overall name _________.
Second up was the group Beaucoup with Phillip, Nicky and Cassandra. With this group we took a different approach. Since we already had both structures built in Sketch Up, we played with simply stacking one on top of the other. Since our structure was exceptionally larger than there’s it only made sense to place theirs on top. Coincidentally, our fire stairs were located on the exact same corners. With a plain old floor extension it would be an easy solution to all floors having access to those stairs. In this group situation Cassandra and Jasmine were discussing what our groups had in common so they decided to just move ahead with the proposal while Philip and I played with the Sketch Up model to try and produce a cohesive design. Alyssa and Nicole drew up the diagrams to help explain our plans for circulation. A large concern we soon came across was coming up with a consistent idea between the two groups. One thing I can say for sure we may get chewed out about is that some of our deliverables were printed in landscape rather than portrait, but with the hour deadline, we ran out of time to fix it.
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| Axon View of Structure |
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| Elevation of Structure |
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| Detail of Materials Used |
I’m eager to see where this leads and what group we’ll ultimately be working with.
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