Final Project

This project was confronting the common issue of providing

food to those who may not be able to afford it. Giving consumers of

any age or physical ability the opportunity to have home gardens 

without previous gardening knowledge or infrastructure.

The initial phase of growing requires knowledge, soil, 

and facilities which Earth University has. While the 

growing and harvesting phase can be done by the 

consumer. Giving Earth University  the ability to 

focus on the first step of production and letting the

consumer grow on their own ground.

Slater Mill

Last Week we visited the Slater Mill museum in Pawtucket, which is considered the “birthplace of industrial design.” Of the many machines and tools on display the one that interested me the most, in terms of my studio project, was their looms. The purpose of a loom is to weave cloth. It works by having long threads, called warps, and interweaving it with threads going the perpendicular, wefts. The wefts go back and forth along the piece and every time it reaches one end a different set of warps are lifted up by gates, sandwiching the wefts into place.  This machine relates to my project because it is takes strands of material and by organization gives it structure. I was also instead in the role of the gates and how they determine the weave.  I plan to use the logic of looms to create more calculated decisions for in my studio work.

Costa Rica Trip

Filling and Insulation possibilities

Drawings from the nature lab

The most valuable things that I gained from the trip to the nature lab was looking how the bonding agent interacted with the surface of the material. Also just looking at what the surface of the materials looked like.

Current uses of rice straw and rice hull

http://www.biomassandbioenergy.nl/filesricestraw/KeijsersSustainableBuilding.pdf

Not really something for our class, but this was one was people dealt with excess rice straw