Outdoor Furniture Design

Evidence Of Work

3d Model

The image below has all of our measurements to scale of all the wood. Also, we have the price of all the documents as well as how many of each piece we need.

Context

-We designed our outdoor piece of furniture to withstand the rain with our steel umbrella, this means that our bench will be able to stay dry and help the wood from getting beat down, also the sun will not be hitting the wood and it will not get damaged.

-We decided that this bench would be 360-degree seating so people can see the campus in all directions while also sitting with their friends and having back support. 

-We decided to use smooth four-sided heart redwood for the seating and backrest to limit any discomfort and to increase the pleasure while sitting on our bench. Then we used not-so-smooth wood to build the interior to save money.

-We decided that the shape of this would be a hectagon in our blueprint and we matched out all the pieces that we needed while also making a cut sheet so we knew what angles we needed to cut.

-We used the website Tinkercad to come up with our design and it also helped us create our blueprints which you can see above.

-The pictures above also show how many feet of each type of wood we need and how much it costs. We tried to limit the cost as much as possible by using the most expensive pieces for the parts of the bench where people will touch it and we used the wood that would not be pleasing to touch for the interior design.

Reflection

Throughout this project, we learned many things and we learned the steps of what you need to do to construct objects. I think that during this project I did well with my collaboration and communication. First, my collaboration was great because I was able to listen to everyone's ideas and we all incorporated some of our own ideas into this project. Then I believe that communication/cooperation was very good because I was able to tell people what they were supposed to do and when there was a problem we all talked it out very well.

Although I did well with collaboration and communication there were two things I need to work on for the next project which are my critical thinking and my conscientious learning. First I could've been a better critical thinker and thought of all situations while executing them well and preventing problems. Then I could have been a better conscientious learner because I didn't plan a lot of things out and during our first attempt at a 3d model I messed up and had to make a cut sheet to do it right so I think I needed to be more organized.