Project Brief

Alex Harlan

The Front Lawn Canopy is a deployable structure designed for students to use on the front lawn when waiting for their parents to pick them up. This would eliminate the traffic jams that are created by students not being close enough to the street to see their cars arrive.

Why would students wait for their ride far away and out of sight of their car when they can be ready to leave when their car arrives. This would not only eliminate the traffic jams but also increase the rate at which people can leave and go home. 

The first idea that we had was a basic structure thus the name The Fruit Stand Model. The Fruit Stand Model was created to allow us to have a multipurpose permanent structure. The idea was that we would have a structure that would rely solely on the hill.

Our new model named the A-Frame model is a structure built off of an A-Frame wouldn't be a permanent model but would instead be a more deployable structure. The idea that would bring in the tensile membrane was that the shade and seat would be a tension membrane. At the top of the structure would be a Hypar that would create enough cover to get into the car or at least on to the sidewalk.