Day 1 ||| Friday

First Project | Instant Environment

Posted: June 13, 2008

After having dinner and saying their goodbyes, the students were plunged headfirst into their first project: the Instant Environment. Provided only with bamboo, twine, and muslin cloth, the students will design and build a structure for their individual group. The sites are in various places around the building, and have unique characteristics that need to be accounted for.

With such restrictions as only being allowed to touch the ground in one place, this project should bring quite a bit of ingenuity and cunning out of all the students. The structures will need to survive for the duration of the camp, which may include a few storms if the forecast is correct, so it will require the utmost in precision and build quality.

The students have tonight to brainstorm, and plan out their design. The actual building process will occur tomorrow afternoon, over the course of 5 hours.

Tomorrow morning there will be a drawing workshop. This should help to introduce the basics of using sketches and plans to aid in the design process.

Pictures can be found here.

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