I’ve been thinking about the wall model for quite some time, and had the planter bases constructed two weeks ago. Originally I wanted to represent each individual bottle with a piece of a drinking straw, that would end up being 0.6 inches long. We bought a box of 3000 from Costco and started cutting. What I ended up doing today is constructing a model using styrofoam insulation sheets, so I could just study the “massing” of the bottles in the planter, and to get an idea of the overall look of the wall. This was going to be a work in process, so I knew I needed something relatively easy to cut and assemble.

My initial design has the wall linear with a wave built into the top. There are three layers shown, with a total bottle count for this design of about 60,000. I hope we can reach at least this size for the wall. More bottles would translate into more layers, while keeping the total height at around 6 feet. Any higher I think I will be getting into some stability issues. The styrofoam was easy to work with especially with a hot wire cutter. Just my kind of material.