Friday April 18th

Now that you have partially constructed the kite, fully answer the following questions in Word:

1. What is the shape of your kite? Where did you encounter the design?
2. What materials have you used? Why did you choose them? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
3. What task will your kite carry out? How? Describe the design?
4. What makes you think that your kite will fly?

Open the following weblink

http://www.cdli.ca/depted/g7/ortho.htm

Using a sheet of plain white paper, Autocad 2007LT, or Adobe Illustrator and create a scale orthographic drawing of your kite from the front, right, and top views. In the bottom right corner of your drawing, create a title block with the following information: name of project, name of designer, scale, date, and drawing number.

MacGyver Kites

MacGyver was able to save the day using only a piece of gum and a spoon. If he had a kite...well...he'd probably be able to solve hunger and ensure world peace.

For this project, we will be designing, constructing, testing, and flying kites. The kites should be constructed using only recycled or found materials. They should be sturdy enough to survive crashes and light enough to fly in a variety of wind conditions. The design can be derived in part from existing designs, but there must also be unique properties and features to the kite. An attractive design is also a must. 

The kite must be able to accomplish at least one of the following tasks.

1. Transport a small object from one place to another without breaking it.

2. Communicate a message over a great distance.

3. Attack or defend a territory.

4. Be used to spy.

5. Collaborate with another kite to accomplish a complex task.

6. All of the above.

Zaha Hadid Architect By: Bryan Muise

Zaha Hadid is a London based Architectural Designer who originated from Iraq. Her designs range from urban scale to interiors products like chairs. She designs the building and what goes inside the building she is unique from others and will never see architectures like hers.
She studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. She then ran her own studio until 1987. She was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture, and is Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Hadid has been pushing the boundaries of architectural design in numerous competitions. Winning designs such as the Peak, Cardiff Bay Opera House, and the Centre for Contemporary Arts. Other competition entries include large scale urban studies in places such as Hamburg, Madrid, Bordeaux and Cologne. She also designed museums in Bad Deutsch Altenburg, Austria, Madrid, and London. The list goes on of her unique building designs.
Her major exhibitions are scattered throughout the world, such as London, New York, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Her buildings are even located in universities such as Harvard. She has been chosen as the first woman become the 2004 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Showing the world women can do work as well as men and inspire new architects and woman that you can go somewhere.