"Design In our Life"

a great place to reside

The Sea Shelter was very captivating to me because one of my mothers favorite movies is titanic and the I did some research on this raft that was set up and it proved to be quite the helpful tool during, lets say an event like, the titanic because it takes less energy to climb aboard the raft opposed to lets say a regular canoe. After the body is weary from finally reaching the raft it would be very inconvenient not to be able to board the raft because it keeps flipping over or you cant get your foot in or for any other reason. With the Sea Shelter Raft it allows you space to plant your feet and hand inside while balancing your weight and also gives you handles that you are able to support yourself coming out of the water. I deemed this invention to be highly functional in the case that someone was ever in a position as such. Another invention I saw to be very intriguing was the Water cone that basically consumes evaporated water and transforms it into drinking water. In parts of the world, third world countries and places of drought, I think that the water cone can be very useful and because of the evaporation process most of the germs have been filtered so the water is freshly prepped to drink. I think this is a highly functional design that if it works can provide aid to a lot of people.  In the Plywood: Material, Process and Form exhibit I found that most of the designs proved to be highly unusable. They had this table that could not have been more than 6 inches tall and as amazing as the design was, I highly doubt that it could be used for the purpose that tables are invented for. Another was the butterfly stool which was made from plywood. The design, I must admit, does capture the eye but for example if a person of my size wanted to use it for its purpose of creation, it would prove to be inadequate. It doesn’t seem to be able to with stand any weight and considering the cheap material of plywood, which is glue and lumber, I think that the chair needs much added support but on a scale of design it was quite a looker.  The final exhibit that I wasn’t so much interested in but found to be very creative in design was Fore Closed: Rehousing the American Dream. It was basically teams set out to explore different possibilities of architecture for mostly suburban areas. The building models seemed very unstable because of the predicted material and balance of some of the buildings. They seemed nice in design and able to hold quite an amount of people but I don’t think that those building would be left standing for very long because of this reason. In the design aspect if I had to choose a favorite it would be the complex, fully made in glass I think if better materials that have proven to be withstanding to natural weather changes it would be a great place to reside