HS 11/23

Intro

Because of our bad habitual behaviors, including the extreme consumerism,

The natural resources are decreasing, and environment pollution is increasing dramatically. It causes greenhouse effect, global warming, sea level rise, bad air to breathe, and many human illnesses due to the damage of the respiratory organs and immune system.

Out of many proposals, Trees solve the most of the environmental problems.

Trees do so many things; purifying air, stopping flood, controlling the temperature, absorbing bad chemicals and compost, and also providing fruits. Trees can absorb CO2 and reduce greenhouse effect, global warming, and also sea level rise.

Mission

So, we need to save our trees and plant more trees.

My goal is to provide young people with a better understanding of how trees interact with our urban environment; how our urban forest provides us with cleaner air, a cooler city and a thriving wildlife; and how trees can make a real difference in creating a more sustainable city.

Design opportunity *

People have a tendency to ignore big problems that they can’t solve by themselves. And we don’t know how and where to plant trees. And we also don’t know how to take care of trees for more than 10 years, especially in Urban Area.

I want to approach this matter by providing people the enjoyable tree activity.

Because I believe that it will create the synergistic acts carried out by many people to begin to have the positive outcome on a large scale to solve the problem.

Survey

I did a survey to figure out how to link trees and fun activity together.

I asked 30 people; “What do you do for fun in the city?”

The answers were (LOOK at the graph)

Two people said they want to go to the parks, like Central Park, to get closer to the nature. But they feel lazy to go and play in the park.

Realization

I realized that we need small parks in Urban Area, which we can easily access to whenever and wherever

we want.

WHAT DO TREES MEAN TO URBAN PEOPLE?

According to the research about NYC tree facts,

There 24% of land covered in trees, and

- Total annual benefits from street trees: $122 million ($209 per tree)

- Annual energy cost reduction: $28 million

- For every $1 invested, New York street trees return $5.60 in benefits

- Annual pollution removal: 2,202 tons

- Annual carbon storage: 1.35 million tons

- Annual storm water capture: 890 million gallons

- A large, healthy tree removes almost 70 times more air pollution each year than a small or newly planted tree.

Through this research, I decided to focus on street trees to make the small parks.

The concept

I came up with the idea of creating tree huts to create a new fun activity for people in public. This will make people to know and care more about trees.

The capacity will be around 3 people.
It will be prefabricated structure, which means easily shipped and assembled.

The product cycle will be circular compare to our existing linear consumerism oriented product cycle.

They can also be the shelters when the area floods.

How to use

1. People (sharing tree experience with friends) pay money hourly.

2. Tree Planting Organization will use the money to plant trees.

3. This will provide more Trees in the city.

More awareness & More trees

Next step: safety, security, and sustainability

My next step is to research tree architecture and architects to make the huts safe and stable.

- Collect children' drawings of their vision for future

- Tree criteria

- How the program works

External Relationships

Design & Source Productions Inc.: Nicole F. Smith, Environmental Director

NPR: I will make surveys & questions and contact

MillionTrees NYC

- CONTENTS OF URBAN AREA is

PARK, COMMERCIAL, RESIDENTAIL, PEDESTRIAN, AND DRIVEWAY

- THE COMMON TREES IN UNRBAN AREA?

THE LONDON PLANETREE, AND THE NORWAY MAPLE especially on streets

TREES OF HEAVEN, BLACK CHERRY, AND SEETGUM as total

After Presentation:

Concentrate on:

The proposal is too Blue sky. Work on Logic, value, target, how it translates

Revisit the proposal

Dramatic graphic effect: Comparison Earth before, Earth going bad, & Earth after.

Visualize

Articulate

Clarify

Envision

Experiment ideas and proposals through sketches and 3D forms

Policy, safety, security, and sanitary issues

Stakeholder / Persona

Define short-term outcome, & long-term outcome.

Contact and ask

1. Laurie Kerr

2. John krieble