Botany Quarter 2 Benchmark: Green Top Landscaping
Hello, I am one of the members of Green Top Landscaping, and I am here to tell you about our own green design initiative. Here at Green Top Landscaping I have designed and constructed a desk that serves as a growing space for plants and work space for our client, Ms. Isakowitz. For our client we delivered a green addition to her classroom, that adds a modern touch to the room itself and her work space. Our client wished to have a desk that could both serve as a spacey and efficient work space, since as a teacher she needs it for grading and other such teacher business, and as a lively space to add greenery to her room and her area. So we gave her just that. To finally reach this point it took weeks of careful planning and construction, but there does remain some additions to that the desk.
To account for the plants need for soil, water, and sunlight there is a space that has been designed to be designated for these specific needs for the plant. Apart of the desks structure there is a box like structure that would serve as the growing station for the plant that our client decides to grow there. The box will have a small irrigation system attachment so that she could use her water bottles to water the plant through out her day and the time she is in possession of the desk. The box also accounts for the plants need for sunlight or artificial sunlight. So there will be a growing light attachment that will serve as the plants energy source. Also the box accounts for the plants need for soil, so there is a base attachment that could serve as a place that our client can put her own soil for the plant if she doesn't wish to use pots or beds for the plants. Noticeably, the box as been decided to be left open so that the plant can exist in an cool to temperate environment that provides airflow to the plant. It has also been left open to account for the many varying plant sizes that exist, giving plants enough space to truly grow while also being an effective use of space for the desk.
To account for the plants need for soil, water, and sunlight there is a space that has been designed to be designated for these specific needs for the plant. Apart of the desks structure there is a box like structure that would serve as the growing station for the plant that our client decides to grow there. The box will have a small irrigation system attachment so that she could use her water bottles to water the plant through out her day and the time she is in possession of the desk. The box also accounts for the plants need for sunlight or artificial sunlight. So there will be a growing light attachment that will serve as the plants energy source. Also the box accounts for the plants need for soil, so there is a base attachment that could serve as a place that our client can put her own soil for the plant if she doesn't wish to use pots or beds for the plants. Noticeably, the box as been decided to be left open so that the plant can exist in an cool to temperate environment that provides airflow to the plant. It has also been left open to account for the many varying plant sizes that exist, giving plants enough space to truly grow while also being an effective use of space for the desk.
There are many factors that affect how plants grows, develops, and evolves over time. These factors include environment, temperature, available nutrients, amount of light, and outside involvement. Plants leaves can be bigger or smaller to account for available light in their areas, there roots can be shallow and stretch far or be deep and concentrated depending on the available nutrients in the soil and on how often it rains. Plants can have taller stems due to other plants competing for sunlight in their area. In a similar fashion, our desk was developed with similar themes. The desks height was chosen due to its need to be tall enough to serve as a efficient and productive work space for the teacher like a plant needs to be tall as to effectively gain nutrients from the sun. The desk is the size it is due to the need to exist in an relatively small environment among other tables and spaces in the room. These are some examples how plants design is similar to that of our own desk.
Through out the process of this project, I truly believe that the relationship between nature and technology can be similar to the relationship between siblings. I think they can have a much more integrated relationship. I don't think that there should be any reason to separate the two of them or consider them that different from each other. The natural world, the world that consists of living organisms, sentient beings, and of which our living breathing world belongs to, shouldn't shy itself from that of the more mechanical, more technological world of machinery, of inanimate objects, of tools, or technology. They should be used to work together to learn from each other like an older sibling would teach its younger counter part. Nature and technology can be used to improve our own way of life if we can integrate it more with each other and in our lives.
Here at Green Top Landscaping, through out our process of completing the contract we had with our client, we had to drop a few members of our group due to their inactivity within our company. So we were left with a pair of members, myself and Errion Holness. It was a partnership that functioned. Overall this arrangement worked much better for the project than it would have with the removed members of our organization. I believe we could improve on our time management and communication. It took me longer to complete the desk than it could have, and there are things that could be improved about it. But for the most part I am satisfied with the design I had created myself and the product that I have constructed.
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