WE GOT THIS
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Transforming a neighborhood previously regarded as one of the worst zip codes in the nation to one that inspires community togetherness and ​love, the We Got This Milwaukee garden brings life to all who visit!
In order to help further reach and impact of the garden, the Honors group that volunteered for this project was tasked with learning how to design and build a tiny house for the workers and visitors of the garden to use.
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Mission Statement:
We Got This Gardener’s Shelter is a tiny house that includes a bathroom, electricity and a place to sleep for people who take care of the Community Garden on the northeast corner of 9th and Ring in Milwaukee. This group is committed to community re-building and placemaking, making the focus of the project based on the community and it’s needs.
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OUR WORK 2020-2021
Space
The first step in our project was to find out more about where this house would be built. We visited the garden a few times, each time learning more about the community, the atmosphere, and the space we had available. We measured out what space we had available to us for the project, so we knew roughly where it would go in the garden and how much we'd have to cram in.
Drawing in AutoCAD
Taking the dimensions and ideas from the garden, we brainstormed the items we'd want present in the house and where everything went.
After starting initially on paper, we found that we wanted our designs to be professional in representation. As well, we wanted to verify that all the dimensions of the house fit into what we expected. So we transferred to AutoCAD.
None of us knew how to use AutoCAD, so we spent a while getting comfortable with the controls and actually designing with the software. After multiple iterations, we ended up with an overall house design we all agreed on.
Model / Exploding Box
As a last project, we brought our design to life by making a physical model of the garden with the tiny house incorporated into it, to scale with the rest of the garden. By using our architecture design, we could see how the house would look like in the actual space without building the full house. The house could be taken apart to see the floor plan on the inside, while detailing our experience working together through the year.
FINAL PRODUCT
TEAM
Mitchell Johnstone
Computer Science / Engineering
Lu Shi Xiong
Biomolecular Engineering
Dixon Seymour
Biomedical Engineering
