Anyone can do it.
We built a simple machine as a device that exists in a space designated to collect air quality data through amateur design. Having no hands-on information about steel fabrication, the team initiated an assembly line to construct the prototype with home tools.
Designed with: Aidan Lozano & Queenie Ntoutoume
In the garden
After researching our site, we thought the machine would relieve the tension between technology and nature, thus leaving the device to perform as its ecosystem — in the garden.
Prototyping
We started in Rhino to figure out what our inventory was and sketched a few prototypes until we landed on one.
Renderings of our final prototype
Renderings of our final prototype
Renderings of our final prototype
Elevation 1
Elevation 2
Top Plan
Material List
Exploded Assembly
And we’re off to build!
The aluminum pieces ended up being more fragile than we thought.
Here’s our girl!
Standing as a structural figure, the machine stabilizes itself by running its stakes through the earth -- symbolic to the roots of a tree. Just as the trees tremble by the touch of the wind draft, the machine imitates its prototype with breathable burlap material. 
