Intro
This project is a CANstruction project. CANstruction is an architectural twist on ordinary food drives. However, this project is not just about food drives–but much more. This project came to be while in the depths of the chemistry classroom. Our class wanted to do a fun project while demonstrating our knowledge of chemistry and while also giving back to the community. A lot of time and effort was spent creating this project, such as gathering over 150 cans from neighbors, local churches, and anyone else who was willing to give for the greater good. While many CANstruction projects have been created showing off random pieces of items. We built our project to display the element–water–in a fun and exciting way by creating a visual representation of a waterfall.
Can Drive
The first step of this project was to garner a large part of the materials needed. This involved hosting a two-week-long school can drive.
ResearchOur first step into this project was to research our element which we were representing. This research included its polarity, shape, bonds, common uses, and interesting facts. This research gave us more width for the possibilities of our design.
SketchesAfter we completed research about our element, we began numerous single point and double point perspective sketches to brainstorm the totality of our exhibit ideas. Eventually, after four sketches, we arrived at the design of a waterfall to represent our element.
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Production
Once our sketches were complete, we moved on to the production of our exhibit. To do this, we took all cans which we garnered from our can drive, wrapped them with five colors of paper: brown, black, green, blue, and light blue, and began the arrangement of our exhibit. During this step, the sketches we developed from previous steps were vital to creating our exhibit in a 3D space.