Time 4 Design
The Rooftop Garden
Inspired by United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, the school community is looking for ways to become more sustainable. The school board are therefore seeking proposals for projects that will make the community roofspace more sustainable.
You have decided to contribute to making the community more sustainable by identifying one environmental problem and suggesting a solution for it. To improve the chances of your proposal being accepted, you have decided to include in your proposal a design brief and a design specification
Your selected community is the school. You must include relevant information about the selected community in your design brief.
You now need to choose an environmental problem that having a rooftop garden will address. Aquaponics, Food Waste (composting), Sustainable Housing, Smart Farming Sources 6, 8 & 9 may help you to consider possible environmental problems.
Having identified the problem, you must research products and/or ways that others have used to solve the same or a very similar problem.
Considering the community, the problem and the solutions you have researched, you must develop a design brief. The design brief is your response to the design situation, it is based on your research and it details how you intend to solve the problem you have identified. The design brief will include an analysis of the relevant findings from your research.
Using the data you have collected and analysed, you must develop a design specification that outlines the success criteria for the design of a solution to your identified problem. The design specification must include a precise and accurate list of important facts, such as conditions, dimensions, materials, process and methods.
Once you have developed both a design brief and a design specification, you should use them to present some feasible ideas for solutions. (A feasible idea is one that is realistic in the context of the community you have chosen).
From the different feasible ideas, choose the best one, give reasons for choosing this particular idea and create planning drawings/diagrams to outline the main details for making the chosen solution.
As you need to present your idea to other people, you must make sure that you present all information in a way that others can understand it.