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So...after staying up until 4:30 this morning working on my treehouse, I have come up with a concept!! It's super exciting.
My tree has four main branches that kinda spread out from each other.  They create a form that would be capable of holding something in it, so I came up with the idea for it to be holding an orb shaped treehouse.  So far, I had planned for it to be just have one main floor with windows and such, but after talking to Jeremy I decided that I need to sketch it with many half-levels(?) that give the sense of being "held".
My persona is someone who needs to get away from working, parenting, or whatever is causing stress to a place where they can relax and enjoy nature.  I would like to include many windows and an optional sunroof to get the open air feeling.  I would also like to put books, rugs, pillows, candles, and music inside to create a soothing, relaxing aura.

treehouse!

So we have now moved on to the treehouse project.  I'm really excited for it! I already have a lot of sketches of my tree, and I'm going to start looking for ideas for the actual structure of the house.  I'm still trying to figure out what kind of persona will be living in my treehouse...I've been thinking I could use it for recreational purposes or maybe a place just for relaxation.  I think that after I find a good structure for it, I can figure out what persona works best with it.
Here are some pictures of my tree! I'll put up some sketches in the next post.

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Experience videos!

This first video is Miss Chloe! She found the bathroom right away.














And this is Miss Nikki! She also found it right away.














Because the signage worked so well, we only need to make a few slight changes.
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Lindley bathrooms

We are currently in the process of testing out our solutions to our problems.
We went back to Lindley and got a feel for where our signs will go and how big they should be. Today we made 9 signs to put up, making it easier to find the restrooms.  We chose to do our signs in blue, as a general "bathroom" symbol, but we also chose to use arrows that look like they came off a rose compass (to tie in with the geography/geology content in the building).
We are gonna start testing either today or tomorrow! Should be pretty exciting to see if our plan works out well or not.  Hopefully we won't have to make any major changes.
I'll try to put up pictures soon!
:)