🌎 Activity 8: Design a Building Like Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright designed and drew over 1,000 homes and buildings for all kinds of different harsh environments. Wright's designs all found harmony within the environments he built - the concept of organic architecture. Wright's buildings provided function and beauty with the top priority of keeping people safe.

In this activity, you will take part in an extreme design challenge. You will roll some dice and randomly select an extreme environment to design a home for your family. Like Wright, design your home within the harshness of the environment and keep in mind the goal to keep your family safe in such an extreme environment.

Instructions:

1. The table above contains six extreme environments, some of the hazards to overcome, and the goal you will try to reach if that environment is chosen. Review this information before you begin.

2. Have a discussion with one or more classmates about the information you just read. Besides just keeping people safe, what other things do humans have to consider when living in an extreme environment? think about food, water ,and fun activities. How can you include those in your house design? Think about the design for your family. How big does it need to be to fit everyone? Will you have to share rooms to conserve space? Think of the design for each room.A kitchen would look much different in the desert than it would in the ocean. Decide if each person in the family will design part of the shelter or if you will design it all together.

3. Roll the dice to find out which extreme environment you'll be working. This is the environment you will have to design your home around.

1. 1. 1. Rainforest
      2. High Mountains
      3. Deep Ocean
      4. Hot Desert
      5. Grasslands
      6. Tundra

4. Start designing your new home in that extreme environment. On a piece of paper, draw your environment first, remembering to leave room for your shelter. Then draw your shelter. Make sure to label each part and how your family's shelter provides:

• The ability to withstand the weather/climate
• A source of water
• A source of food
• Breathable air
• A comfortable temperature
• Ways to stay entertained.

Once you have completed your drawing, create a video explaining your the style of your shelter, and all the ways it provides water, food, shelter, air, comfort and entertainment to the people who live there.

If you need help uploading a video, watch the following video for instructions: Play media comment.