Rancho Margot: Diploma Project Nov 2013 | Page 17

These are the illustrations I made right after coming back to India. I tried to recollect my experience and tried to depict all the memorable aspects of the systems that are in the ranch. I tried to include all the aspects and this is visualisation I could come up with. I thought in order to make a strong visualisation I also had to incorporate the element of the rainforest into the infograph. Before my third review, I summed up the topics that I was going to look through during my creative process which were: I decided that ‘A home you never need to get out of’ would be the overall theme of my project because sustainability relates to self-sufficiency and making a relationship with where you belong. While I was thinking of ways to visualise the energy system and while I was still learning the energy systems in the ranch by connecting the clues and research data which I gathered, I also looked into the topic of the rainforest. According to me, the rainforest is integral to the ranch. The rainforest gives the ranch its water and its biodiversity. The fact that the ranch is surrounded by 150,000 acres of protected land astounded people. 17