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Our Plan
Our Plan
Our plan was to add 5 10ft x 14ft in-ground trampolines, and a walkway into the open space. Our walkway would lead directly to the maker space, and the trampolines would be in the bottom left hand corner.
Dealing With Human Use
Dealing With Human Use
Human use was a large issue. Safety in particular. The idea of having five trampolines on a high school campus leads some to question the risk involved. Do to this issue, we positioned the trampolines 10 feet away, so students can not jump from one to another. We also searched for the largest trampolines so that multiple people can have space to bounce on one trampoline. Our chosen trampoline also has an installable mat that sits around the outside of the trampoline. Finally, we tested different materials to find the one that would be best to land on (the one that has the longest time of impact). We found that grass had the longest time of impact, and ultimately would be the most cushioning to a fall.
Dealing With Water
Dealing With Water
One of the downsides of installing in-ground trampolines, are having to dig holes, and as most people know, when you have a hole outside for long enough, you create a pool of rain and mud. To negate this, we created a soak away, and installed weed membrane. Our soakaway is scalpings wrapped in weed membrane, all put inside of a small hole in the bottom of the hole. What this will do is absorb water, then slowly release it back into the earth to avoid mud. As stated earlier, we also put an outer weed membrane in the hole. this membrane will sit in the large hole directly, and act as a larger soakaway. the membrane will slowly drain back into the earth.
Our Choice In Material
Our Choice In Material
Our material choices were quite straight forward. we bought this trampoline because it was very large and an extremely good price when compared to other trampolines. For the walkway, we toyed with the idea of creating a gravel path, but that was a much larger expense than we were expecting, and it did not fit in with the rest of the walkways at school. This influenced our decision. We ultimately decided that concrete walkways would be cheaper and look better.
Blue Printing
Blue Printing
For our blueprints, we printed out an overhead shot of the outdoor area, complete with length of different parts. We then found that one centimeter was roughly equal to 11 feet. From that, we drew our trampolines and walkway.
3D Modeling
3D Modeling
We used a 3D modeling program online called TinkerCad. We used this web application to make a 3D model of our hole. We used a diagram that was available on the trampoline's website to base our model off of. We created the hole to scale of the dimensions needed.
Reflection
Reflection
One thing that we did well was creativity. We came up with an idea that no one else had thought of. We were then able to justify it and make it sound more reasonable. That leads into the other thing we did quite well. We problem solved quite well. whenever a new problem arose, we were able to take it on, do research, and conquer it. One thing that we could improve on would be time management. We spent a lot of time in class doing things poorly, which we had to then go home and fix. Another thing we could work on would be communication. There were times where we were having problems on what we were working on and needed help, and we let it go too long before asking for help. Overall, I believe that we did really well on this project.
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