‘Winter in the Garden’ Installation As part of Winter Fest at Garvan Woodland Gardens in late 2020, 43 third-year interior design students designed and built several “Winter in the Garden” sitespecific installations in the garden’s Camellia Way area. The camellia blooms inspired the overall color scheme. In the fairly open areas, large trees spaced widely apart were used to support suspended installations. Smaller areas in the under-canopy of the camellia trees called for more intimate, scaled experiences. Students used a wide range of commonly found and recycled materials to create their installations, such as colored rope, rope lights, hundreds of strands of LED lights and LED spotlights from the garden’s inventory. They also used 2-by-2-inch wood framing, quarter-inch steel rods, various sizes of steel tubing, galvanized
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metal, plumbing pipe, acrylic sheets, PVC tubing, metal goat fencing panels, ripstop nylon and plastic drinking cups. Galvanized wire and horse fence tensioners were used for suspended items, with the trees on site providing all the structural elements. This project was part of the students’ Professional Practice for Interior Design course, led by Carl Matthews, professor and head of the Department of Interior Design, in fall 2020. It required students to develop a broad range of skills and knowledge gained in the course — such as project management, schedule production and management, budgeting, client communications, personnel management, service to the public, schematic design, design development, design implementation, design presentation, design
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