Friday morning was an early start the students from Chichester and Hazelwick College were joined with AT student her in University of brighton.While everyone is preparing for the presentation and waiting for the model to come Laura and I printed out the A1 poster to ensure it is perfectly fine and nothing is missing. We displayed our poster into the board first which then followed by the model brought by Sam straight from Chichester College and placed on a position where the audience can see the model on different angles.
When the model arrived there are still some finishing to do to present the model properly, for example the material attached to the raised roof that provides lighting for the entire building. The actual material we will used on the real cabin is tarpaulin therefore we used tracing paper around the opening part to represent it. Moreover due to limited time the proper stands for the canopy didn’t get to me made therefore we improvised to have a reasonable size stand just to show that it does open up. Furthermore we printed our solar panels onto scale to represent the right numbers and energy source to be collected for the cabin. Externally the model is reasonable done however due to the limited time we didn’t get to do anything for the interior design and furniture for the cabin.
After all the alteration to improve the model we then started preparing for the presentation. We had a little meeting to ensure everyone is on the same page and will know what to say if being asked or to share ideas while presenting. We then started the presentation with an introduction of the group and begun to explain how we came up with the whole idea and giving out information for the entire Eco-cabin, we all provided our own knowledge about the model as a whole a we helped each other out while presenting. I believe that the presentation was very successful there are some positive and negative feedback’s from the audience however this will all be for the Eco-cabin’s improvement our design can still be developed to be more efficient and sustainable.
Further in the day while the other groups are presenting their projects and while listening to the audiences feedback’s I had gained a lot of information and understanding with the other options of how our Eco-cabin’s self efficiency and sustainability could be improved. Each projects have lots of advantages and disadvantages as a whole which can still be improved on therefore while listening to each others presentation we learn from each other to improve our work. There are lots of alternative materials that I would’ve replaced to be used on our Eco-cabin design for example insulation and cladding to increase its environmentally friendly features. Over all I was pleased with the end results from our efforts working as a group from Monday it was a great way to gain experience of having an actual project with group of people with the same aim until the end of the project.