2012 national competition project #189 | cafeteria redesign
After traversing through the software's countless number of trees, I went with a mesquite tree to use on my redesign. This tree is quite common in Arizona, and provides plentiful shade on hot summer days in the desert.
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I'm happy to see you thinking about landscape issues and how plants and foliage can directly impact your design concept. That's really great. Reiterating my previous comment: don't jump too quickly however to the small details until we really understand the larger context of the design including the various spaces, the way people interact and move through them, and the ways in which the new design solves the old problems you had identified.
In choosing this tree it sounds like you reviewed many others, and hopefully made your decision based on not just the computer model aspects but also researched the tree's real properties and characteristics. Remember to use this phase of brainstorming, not just coming up with ideas about specific components or materials, but to also explore bigger ideas and concepts and testing those ideas through sketching and quick study models.