Elaboration Studio 48-200 Grow Collective | Friendship, Pittsburgh
Studio Professor: Mary-Lou Arscott; Coordinator: Josh Bard | Fall 2015
MATERIALS
Metal conduits
Screws
Clips
Heavy duty plastic
TEAM
Anirudh Anand
Caitlin Donnelly
Jai Kanodia
Veronica Wang
PROBLEM
Design a hoop house to be installed at the Montessori Pre K-5 in the Friendship neighborhood of Pittsburgh that is kid friendly, will protect the plants from harmful weather, and can easily be opened to allow students and teachers to tend to the plants.
OVERVIEW
We designed the structure, created construction drawings, and fabricated our design so that it could be easily assembled, transported in a truck, installed on site, and attached to the existing planter beds at the elementary school.
We CNCed a rig for bending the conduit pieces and heated the plastic with a heat gun to stretch over the metal structure, protecting the plants from the elements. Our design is easy for the kids to access with the latches close to the ground. The modular nature of the structure makes it easy to break for transportation, storage, or relocation. The flexible nature of the design meant the two modules could be loaded onto one long plant bed or separated to cover two different beds, as was the final configuration during installation.
EARLY MODELS
INSTALLATION PROCESS
CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS
