Monster tent!

For this Project I was designing a sort of bivouac for adult-sized people. It was supposed to return the entrant back to a state of mental peace that you could only find while inside of a fort. Remember making a blanket fort when you were little? It's sort of like that, but a home made tent.

I started out sewing recycled fabric chunks together, they were each about a yard-squared so you can imagine how large the entire thing was with this picture of me sitting in the middle of it. (I'm about 5' 9" tall)

I then proceeded to fold the fabric into the shape of an oragami water-bomb. It took about fifteen minutes or so; it's a lot harder with just one person than with more than just me. 

then I built the armiture construction parts. I originally went through about five re-designs of the inside before settling for pyramids. when put together properly they made a cube about 8x8x8 feet cubed, much to my surprise after a week of frustration I found that the fabric was 5x5x5 feet cubed on the inside. so yet another re-design was needed.

I had first assembled it outside, so I took it apart and re-assembled it inside where it would finally rest for the duration of the week and critique.

I moved the fabric next to it and enlisted four other people to help put the armature inside of the fabric.

it took maybe ten minutes for us to get the fort to this stage of readiness.

Finally I cut, sewed, and attached the eyes and mouth to make the covering for the portal inside.

blood sweat and tears went into the making of it but I couldn't have done it without the support of my friends, colleagues, instructors and mentors. 

I've got to get used to being so terribly ambitious that it's sometimes unhealthy, then change my ambition to healthier forms of creation!