Materials Update!
Feb 17th, 2012 by olivia
During Monday’s meeting, our team decided that it would be best to start building the Ting barriers over reading week. Our client has seen our designs and she seems very happy with them (as are we), we are now waiting for the approval from the executive director of the gardens.
As a reminder, our favourite design is shown below-we are really hoping this is going to be the chosen one as we feel it blends in well with the landscape and feel of the garden.
Once our design is approved we will go ahead with purchasing materials, here is the tentative list we have come up with:
– 1.5m x 15 pieces (bamboo, no shorter than 1.5m each length)
– 30 m of curly sticks, no shorter than 1 m a piece
– wood glue
– waxed synthetic cord of natural colour
– some sort of sealant/protector to help slow the weathering process of the twine and sticks
We have tried to remain as natural and simple as possible with our materials list based on the restrictions the garden has provided us with (no nails, screws, metal, etc.). As for our projected completion date of the three barriers, if our design is approved before next week we will go ahead with the construction! We are very excited to begin making the barriers and can’t wait to see the final result.