After intensive deliberations, deep philosophical pondering and a couple thrown punches we came to a mutual agreeable conclusion to wrap up the semester. Instead of backtracking and trying to redevelop everything from square one, the consensus was to continue on with the already strong plan_B and clean it up.
Since it is impossible to improve the effectiveness of an existing snow fence in the sense of functionality (snow off the road is snow off the road), we have to define ‘performance’ in another way. Based on the strength of our parametric process and research, the main benefit we have to offer is the ability to design the snow landscape itself in a completely customizable fashion. This means we could essentially have a product catalogue where a client can pick their own drift design -or- input site specific variables to get a unique fence. Since the wall would be constructed out of flat panels there could be a wide range of material options and price range -or- site specific salvaged material.
Project: ‘Unique Snowflake’ (…since every wall could be as unique as winter snowflakes…) wasn’t a well received name, so we have some work ahead of us. And instead of ‘item: 001138′ we have the option of giving each wall variation paint color names like ’sultry swirl’, ‘chirstmas eve’, ‘big sky blizzard’, and ’sleigh-ride drive-by’. Or not…
Basically we will be refining our existing work instead of doing more studies, which was deemed unnecessary. We will have teams for the following topics*:
- Grasshopper code
- Rhino modeling+rendering
- materials scavenger
- fabrication
- presentation refinement
*subject to change as project progresses.
