Ideation

In our last lesson Shae and I finished drawing up our plan for the landscape and cabins in our resort. All ideas for the cabin design that were discussed in my last blog post are remaining the same, with a few additions. Our current design for the cabins can be seen below.


We have decided to make the cabins two storey, with a balcony hanging over the front and one of the sides. We have done this mostly for aesthetic purposes, although the balcony will slightly shield the front windows from the sun. We may choose to shift the top storey to the other side so that it can also shade the windows on the side of the building, but we are not sure of this yet. We are planning on making parts of the cabins out of bamboo, for instance the railings on the balcony and possibly the sliding shades for the windows, as it is very renewable and strong. We are not sure on most of the rest of the materials yet.

As we wanted to focus on the landscape as well as the design of the cabins, our resort model is going to be on a slightly smaller scale than most of the others. This is our design so far, with the rectangles symbolising the cabins: