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Progress (week 7 part 2)

Rachel Fong

Monday, Feb 26, 2018 - 06:39:26 pm

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After reading Fabrizio’s comment, we decided to explore and focus more on repetition and connectivity while maintaining the same concept of a shared space.

Idea 1

Idea 2

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KS
Hey glad to see some iterations and developments. For this direction it has become slightly modular and repetitive. Now it is a single element repeated a few times. Your team needs to devise ways to also express a sense of “wholeness” at the same time. That key characteristic is not present here, and fine tuning this technique is crucial for your concept, and is an important value of your team’s work. Fabrizio, over to you.
fabrizio
Agree with KS, you should refine more
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Progress (week 7)

Rachel Fong

Sunday, Feb 25, 2018 - 03:02:21 am

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Inspiration from Henry Moore

After doing a bit of readings on Henry Moore and his sculptures, there was a surprising fact that most of his sculptures were also inspired by skulls and bones!

Bones are the inside structure that nature uses for both lightness and strength…so in bones you can find the principles which can be very important in sculpture

Henry Read more →

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fabrizio
I can see a big improvement in your creative process. Interesting shapes as well. There is still one thing, your idea of representing the backbone implies the concepts of structural connectivity and repetition as a metaphor of students' body and unity made from singular elements. I think these are fundamental concepts of your design. In the images above I don't feel these concepts well represented. Maybe is the fact that the sculptural elements (spine bones) look disembodied from their structure, in my opinion is still lacking the sense of continuity and inter-connectivity. Try to improve and refine your design looking into some other designers' work. Some are linked on this syllabus page: biomorphism https://oss.adm.ntu.edu.sg/17s2-dr3005-tut-g01/syllabus/technology-references/?preview_id=99&preview_nonce=360ca43acb&_thumbnail_id=-1&preview=true#lecture_notes
Rachel Fong
Hi Fabrizio,thanks for the feedback. We will continue to improve and refine the form of our design. Molte grazie!
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Week 6: Form Development

Kaywerlyn

Monday, Feb 19, 2018 - 09:55:46 pm

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Continuing from week 5, we decided to focus on the nature of the connectivity of the spine (bones rely on each other to connect and how when they connect, certain parts overlap each other) and this week we focused on churning out ideas for our form.

We looked back at the sketches we did in week 2 and we realised that Read more →

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Tags: form development | product design 4 | spine
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fabrizio

bones rely on each other to connect and how when they connect, certain parts overlap each other...that’s your opening statement,  now I’m looking at the drawings:

Spine bones also have a bilateral symmetry which is totally lacking from your first drawing.

There is symmetry in your second drawing. What it might be lacking here is the feeling of organic matter (looks more like an extruded profile) and the connection between each piece is very much exposed and looks a bit alien from the sitting pieces.

Third and fourth drawings are more organic but too much on their own, lacking the sense of being part of a larger and more articulated structure. Another thing that surprises me is the fact that seaters look very much solitaire, they are sitting back to back, not much sense of community...they don’t talk each other... If I can suggest something, try to enlarge the seats to accommodate more people, or get them close enough to favor communication. Would be also good to interlock the pieces without any extra connecting part. Yor are designing a sculptural piece that can ‘also’ be a sitting area  ... ...look at Henry Moore organic shapes https://www.google.it/search?q=Henry+Moore&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9t5jxnbLZAhWCVhQKHZu4As0Q_AUIESgB&biw=414&bih=695#isa=y or la Chaise from Eames http://www.eamesoffice.com/the-work/la-chaise/ ...
fabrizio
Another recommendation, it will help if you try to play with plasticine for making small mockup.
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Week 5: Form exploration

Kaywerlyn

Monday, Feb 12, 2018 - 08:57:46 pm

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The concept that we have chosen to do is the connectivity of the spine. We were intrigued by the way the bones are connected together therefore we would like to focus on this aspect.

The bones are ‘stacked’ together through the spinal cord and connected by the facet joints. This makes an area of the bones overlap each other and we Read more →

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Tags: form exploration | product design 4 | the spine
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fabrizio
connectivity has a very broad meaning. it's a good concept and a positive one reminding the spine is ok but try to be not too literal when you develop your sketches the unit elements could be scaling up to convey a sense of hierarchy (if you think is necessary) or could be the same unit just repeated in a number of pieces what this installation supposed to be, a sitting area? what kind of functions it might be able to integrate in it (if)? in how many ways it can recall the concept of connectivity? start to play with 3dimensional mockup and use human silhouettes to define size and volume
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Concept for Installation

Rachel Fong

Monday, Feb 05, 2018 - 09:15:26 am

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Source of inspiration: The Human Spine

 

Observations: 1 / Only serves its purpose if the individual bones are connected together. 2 / It does not work if there is no main component. 3 / It is a source of strength, support and stability. 4 / A healthy spine keeps balance, and it also had to be balanced.

What we aim to produce (meaning behind installation, description Read more →

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Week 3: First Concept

Kaywerlyn

Monday, Feb 05, 2018 - 12:18:32 am

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School, to us, cannot be called what it is if it does not consist of the most important element: students. The school do not make the students, but rather, the students make the school.

With this as our concept, we realised that the idea of this is very similar to the spine. The spine is the main support for the human Read more →

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Day to Day Data by Georges Perec

Rachel Fong

Tuesday, Jan 30, 2018 - 08:59:02 am

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What we understood from this reading was that he wants us to divert our attention from things or situations we find ‘abnormal’, which is what we usually miss out because they’ve become so familiar that we don’t see them as inspirations, and also to appreciate and be aware of the mundane.

Therefore we would like to focus on the shuttle bus Read more →

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