Friday, November 1, 2013

Assignment 5 Reflection

One of the most significant lessons that I took from the hoop house project was planning ahead in time. One of the components of our project depended heavily on digital fabrication, and when we realized that we may not have the chance to actually use the equipment we all had a short moment of panic. We also hadn't anticipated some of the construction details to take so long, and from that we all learned that everything takes longer in real life, and we need to be prepared for it. Another valuable lesson learned was the importance of simplifying, as we were incredibly ambitious in the first couple of designs for our hoop house, but gradually began to tone down our design for a stronger, more stable structure. In the end, the simplification yielded a much better result than what could have been, and our ideas on paper evolved into the massive structure that we completed.

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