Outdoor STEM Space

Bench Materials and Costs

What is the Project?- For this project we designed a piece of furniture that could be voted on to be used outside on our campus. My group (Jake and Andres) decided to create a "floating" bench design. In order to create it we first brainstormed ideas for what type of bench we could design. We did this on paper and on Tinker Cad. When we had a rough idea of what we wanted to make we made detailed blueprints of the bench. We then created a cardboard model of what our final product would look like. Finally, we created a detailed materials and costs list for every material we would use in order to actually create it.

REFLECTION

This project was a very fun experience. It was very hard choosing which plan to go with but we ended up with my floating bench design. during this project we encoutered many problems such as the bottom supports not being strojng neough to hold people on the bench without collapsing. another problem we faced was choosing which design was gonna be our final design, we went through a lot of trial and error and it was a big group desicion to make but we worked together and made the decision for the floeating bench design. Some things that went very well for us is our modle, our model waas made out of cardboard and made to scale with the right measurements.