For my fourth weekly project for my 3d design course, I was planning to finish an automatic mushroom growing system, but due to time limitations and a lack of necessary parts, I decided to design and build a model of a hurricane/typhoon proof house.
I took inspiration from limpets, specifically from the shape of their shells, because that shape essentially gets held to the ground tighter the faster the wind is blowing. then I made a cross section drawing to see how much of the space could be used for living, and how much would only be good for storage, and mapped that out on the birds eye view drawing.
I noticed there was a lot of space that could only be used for storage (as it was shorter than the average appliance) and that, to have access to all of it, I would need to give up a bunch of otherwise usable space. Then I realized that, because the whole building would be circular, I could make the storage area spin around, which would allow people to use all of the space with only one access point. This, of course, meant that the entrance could not intersect with this space, so I added a staircase over it. You can see this more clearly in the cardboard model I constructed. The living space in the middle of the structure of the model is empty besides a 6 ft long scale couch for reference because you would be able to place anything anywhere inside it.
See you next week!
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