Time is running out, so many of our teammates came in on the weekend to cast more stones and rethink our pathway design. We still are significantly short of the amount of stones we would need to create the type of pathway we desired, so we dragged our stones out to the oasis site to see what we could come up with.
While outside Neal had an epiphany. We decided instead of created stepping stones for a pathway, we would create an elaborate border that outlines the pathway. We now had completely thrown verticality out (as a class) so we no longer had to worry about the pillars. Now we had to grapple with the proximity of our stones and having an organized pattern vs. planned randomness. In the end planned randomness won out.
Not only did it solve the problem of using a much smaller portion of stones, it fit in with the gestalt concepts of continuation and closure to our project, by have the border only lining one half of each curve of the pathway on opposite sides.
close up
How the pathway looks from a distance.
Our first test run
The finale! We would like to install gravel when we get back from winterbreak.
1 comment:
You must install the gravel.
It will complete the project in a sweet way.
cheers.
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