With a basic design decided upon, our team is now focused on creating a final design which we will then be able to give to Ray Cam. From this design, Ray Cam will have everything they need to be able to manufacture the vertical gardens and distribute them throughout their community. In order for the final design to be completed our team will need to finalize several key details about the project. These details were discussed in the previous blog post and are summarized with their completion dates below:

March 14^th: Design the base of the garden (Including possible wheels attached to the base)

March 21^st: Design the connections that will be used to fasten the different sections of the garden in place

March 17^th-21^st: Meet with Ray Cam to finalize the design parameters listed above

March 31^st–April 4^th: Have a final design completed as well as setup instructions so that Ray Cam will be able to easily assemble the gardens (i.e. Project Completion)

*Notice that all of these tasks are being completed with consultation from every team member. As a result, no one person is in charge of completing any aspect of the design individually.

Up until this point, our team has visited the Ray Cam Community Centre twice. The first visit was to get an introduction to the project by being able to see firsthand what the vertical gardens would be used for. We saw the Food Wall Demonstration, a large scale vertical garden that our current project was created from. We were able to see some of the community that the gardens would be distributed in and some of the design parameters that would need to be considered as a result. From this site visit, we were able to begin the brainstorming stage of the project.

Once we created several different design options, we visited with Ray Cam again to get their input on our preliminary designs and to decide upon one design that we would move forward with. This meeting is what lead to the trapezoid design being picked as our final option. We are now currently working on some of the details of the design in the hopes of having the project be completed in the next couple of weeks.

The basic grid design and shape of the vertical garden.

Since our team’s involvement in the project will be concluding in the coming weeks, it is necessary to begin reflecting upon the success of our team and the effectiveness we had on the project. Our original goal was to complete a final design of the vertical garden that Ray Cam could use to manufacture and distribute to the community. If we are able to accomplish this task then the project as a whole would have to be looked at as a success. We are on pace to meeting this goal but there is still plenty of work that needs to be done. If our team continues to communicate well and work hard on the design then we will have no trouble finishing our design and completing the project.