This Blog Was created for my Research & Development class at SFSU.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Sunday Sunday
Thanks to Target I got to enjoy the art collection of Gap founders Doris and Donald Fisher at MOMA-SF featuring paintings, sculptures, photographs, and video works by Alexander Calder, Chuck Close, Anselm Kiefer, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and more.
Double treat came with free Yerba Buena Center for the Arts admission to see ‘TechnoCRAFT Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers and Design in the Age of Individuality”, exposition, which was cool .
Sunny Saturday
Had a great Sunday yesterday, under the sun and fog amid the greenest foliages, vegetables and colorful flowers at the Potrero Del Sol Community Garden, and Paige Brors. Clipper Community Garden near my house in the fog. My friend Paul is right; we should have a guided tour to those hidden treasures which San Francisco posses. Those spaces boast beautiful plants; from herbs to fruit trees.
Potrero Del Sol Community Garden is a garden on the lower part of the Potrero hill neighborhood, a hidden gem along the freeway. The garden contains beautiful flowers, mixed with vegetables and herbal plants. The squashes are sprouting one after the other, tomatoes are changing from lusty green to “eat me” red. Beans bushes were displaying beautiful red flowers amid its stunning green foliages and young pods. The flowers planted among the vegetables are dynamic in color and shape making the garden perfect oasis amid the city’s disarray.
Paige Brors. Clipper Community Garden In Twin peaks is one of the oldest community gardens in the city and was at once part of a ranch owned by Paige family. I was always intrigued by this garden but never indulged a visit, till yesterday. The garden have vines full of blackberries, the pear, apple, plum trees are flaunting enormous quantity of fruits,
Green, reddish foliages are at its peak and the flowers are indescribable beautiful.
That was probably the hardest part of my research, what do I have to do in the name of science?
Friday, July 16, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
My Research Project
The Problem: Many apartments in Twin Peaks have decks that hold potential for gardening organic vegetables. The market lacks a container-designed specifically to grow a variety of vegetables on such small spaces.
Purpose Statement: The purpose of this study was to develop a product that makes gardening on apartment’s deck more feasible and pleasant.
I live in Twin Peaks, a neighborhood in San Francisco well know for it spectacular views of the city. We have no grocery store, convenient stores or even a weekly farmer market on the neighborhood, if you need go grocery shopping you have to drive out or endure the precarious public transportation to go shopping in a different neighborhood. The sell point to live on this neighborhood is that it offers breath-taking views of the city and many apartments comes with decks, where you can seat down and appreciate the bay area natural landscape and man made landscape. Sunrises, sunsets, full moon, fog or even the city light creates astonishing picturesque scenes on the bay.
The decks on my building inst quite spacious but it still have a space that could be turned into an edible garden. I was recently diagnosed with hyperglycemia and have changed drastically my diet, I have always avoided food rich in sutured fat and now I am trying to stay way from fast sugar. I never liked vegetables that much, but now I am giving a chance and would love to have fresh organic veggies available a step way.
I have been looking for a container that is designed for growing vegetables in small areas, there are pots that that are designed for house plants and outdoor plants, I also have came across containers customized to grow herbs indoors, but nothing close to grow a variety of vegetables using limited space taking in consideration limited amount of sun light and dirt.
As a product design student at SFSU and having to develop a product for my 505Research & Development class it seemed ideal to design a product that would promote good eating habits and reduce carbon footprint, I believe that compact garden is a part of the solution to both and should be better explored. As I design I will emerge on a research that will help me guide to a better solution for gardening in small spaces.
Purpose Statement: The purpose of this study was to develop a product that makes gardening on apartment’s deck more feasible and pleasant.
I live in Twin Peaks, a neighborhood in San Francisco well know for it spectacular views of the city. We have no grocery store, convenient stores or even a weekly farmer market on the neighborhood, if you need go grocery shopping you have to drive out or endure the precarious public transportation to go shopping in a different neighborhood. The sell point to live on this neighborhood is that it offers breath-taking views of the city and many apartments comes with decks, where you can seat down and appreciate the bay area natural landscape and man made landscape. Sunrises, sunsets, full moon, fog or even the city light creates astonishing picturesque scenes on the bay.
The decks on my building inst quite spacious but it still have a space that could be turned into an edible garden. I was recently diagnosed with hyperglycemia and have changed drastically my diet, I have always avoided food rich in sutured fat and now I am trying to stay way from fast sugar. I never liked vegetables that much, but now I am giving a chance and would love to have fresh organic veggies available a step way.
I have been looking for a container that is designed for growing vegetables in small areas, there are pots that that are designed for house plants and outdoor plants, I also have came across containers customized to grow herbs indoors, but nothing close to grow a variety of vegetables using limited space taking in consideration limited amount of sun light and dirt.
As a product design student at SFSU and having to develop a product for my 505Research & Development class it seemed ideal to design a product that would promote good eating habits and reduce carbon footprint, I believe that compact garden is a part of the solution to both and should be better explored. As I design I will emerge on a research that will help me guide to a better solution for gardening in small spaces.
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