For my 2022 geometry final project, my partner Maya and I created an abstract, geometric, stained glass christmas tree. We thought it would be a festive yet educational way to end the semester. We were inspired by all the christmas music and decorations around the school. We incorporated elements of shape, color, and texture. We did this by adding all kinds of shapes with different colors and some textured portions within the painting. We also added 3 principles of design. Symmetrical balance, variety, and pattern. This connects to our unit because we had to measure all of our shapes and prove they were what we said they were. For example, for our parallelogram we had to describe the properties of a parallelogram and describe how they applied to our shape using our measurments. It was a fun activity allowing us to practice our proofs and have some fun.
At this point, we have identified the needs of the community, created rough sketches of a redesign based on the community’s feedback, and adjusted our design based on the feedback of one of our peers. In this phase of the project, we actually created all of the construction documents that will allow someone to actually build a model of my building. Here is a presentation entailing every aspect of this project.