Peer comments

jimmy iraheta
http://ides1031-z3332715.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/plant-storage.html?showComment=1332752072999#c4097270946501768689

Rachael Sigley

http://rachaelsigley.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/final-design-poster.html?showComment=1332752525693#c8547374127302289216

Benjamin ma

http://mabenjamin.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/crown-umbrella-rack.html?showComment=1332752789877#c2448885500684906711

Sarah howard

http://sarahoward1031.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/inspiration-and-ideas-two.html?showComment=1332752988069#c5688703440423466834

Patrick Dunn

http://patrickdunnindustrialdesign.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/normal.html?showComment=1332753163287#c2501260474668229655

The Vert plant

Rationale

The storage system I have designed and created was the vertplant. This design is influenced in its own biomorphic and biometric ways. Many cliff sides have plants continuing to survive even though they are in such hard to reach places.

When I was thinking of what people in high density housing may need I realized that due to lack of outdoor area and soil they tend to lack their necessary home grown produce, especially for things such as herbs and other additives to meals. This led to me wanting to think of a method of growing their own produce, yet making the most of little area.

When doing my research on high density housing I notice it usually consists of 1-3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 kitchen, 1 TV/dining area, and a small balcony. Of all these areas I gathered that the balcony is the area that gets the most sunlight. From knowing this I knew where the placement of the produce had to be, the balcony.

I then had to figure out a way to make the most space of this balcony area. I then discovered plants that grow up cliffs, vertically, they make the most out of little area yet are still available to get the necessary sunlight and water, and this gave me the idea of a vertical plantation.

After looking at cliff sides with more depth, I discovered numerous biometric methods I could adopt. I noticed how a lot of the plants throughout the cliff tend to share the same soil, I added this to my design as it allows the plants to share nutrients and share water easier. From looking at cliff sides I also noticed that plants get all their sunlight from being hung over, using this I discovered that the exact same method can be used in a balcony area. Then I also noticed how water tends to drip down the side of the cliff, one way or another managing to get to every plant, I then adopted this method for my own design, allowing all the plants to get their water from dripping off from other plants.

When it came to biomorphism I used the method within a cliff of the plants being vertical, another crucial thing that I noticed is that the location of the plants are generally randomized, depending on the flow of the water, due to this I made the location of the plants on my design rather random to suite the feel of a cliff side. I had also noticed that the rock formation on the sides of the cliff, although the plants need soil to grow, the cliff needs rock to stay upright, so using this aspect I added some rock like formation on the side to give a feel of biomorphism. 

An inconvenient truth- video reflection

The world and where we live is constantly changing, sometimes for the good and a lot of the time for the bad. Not many people seem to take notice of this but the facts are that we need to take a stronger notice of this as the world around as is changing and a lot of this has to do with our doings. The earth is getting damaged as we are using it and if we continue at the current rate it will get to a point beyong our capable repair. One crucial fact is that as we are damaging the earth more and more we are limiting how much we can predict about the earth and its environment.

This video demonstrates how the earth is changing and how it is our fault. It is truelly amazing the effects we have on this earth. I have always had some knowledge of the changing world especially global warming, but I have never fully understood it, as I don’t think anybody will fully understand it. The way al gore states the complete and utter facts, and how amazing some of these facts are truly amazing shows how crucial it is that we all start taking action in fixing up our own mess.

When Al gore was describing the carbon dioxide increasing and how he was describing everything he had been doing to try and make us more aware of global warming really suprized me, not as he did a lot of work, but more on the topic that everything he had done to try and help the environment had been refused or denied, this shows society’s lack of care for what is actually happening, the biggest worry is that they will only begin to care when this problem can no longer be fixed. If these events of changes happening to the earth do not begin to become recognized then us humans will reach a catastrophe, it MUST be a reality that the earth is constantly changing.

This entire documentary is very important, for everybody’s field of work, but the fact is that everyone as a whole should have a great understanding of this. One of the most important things we should all take notice of is Al Gore’s future projections…..these projections may or may not come true, but his understanding and statistics that made him come up with these projections are all very true, hence we should all prepare ourselves and dramatically fix our act, and most of all, hope that Al Gore is wrong.

It is crucial to understand how important change is, but when something comes into play to alter how the change should be can really cause UNPREDICTABLE problems, it is and inconvenient truth knowing the situation we are reaching and we should start accepting how crucial it is for us to accept the required change and to prevent ourselves from damaging the change line.