Foundation 4D 2 – G3

Group members: Rochele & Ling Ern

It’s time to develop our prototype!

We decided to work with foam that we found in 3D studio. We sketched the shape that we want – “M” because it provides more space to make the slit.

Working with such a huge foam was never easy. Due to the lack of skills, we literally broke the wire Read more →

After further discussion and research, we realised that we lacked interaction with the books itself. Hence, we improved on our idea and decided to take out our own images, instead replacing it with the images already found in the books.

Title: Judge a Book by its Cover

Team Members: Vanessa Ang, Sammi Neo

Project Focus: To bring attention to the forgotten books through user Read more →

For the choice of colours, one of the main criteria to choosing them is brightness. So what I had in mind was to begin the napping session with a dark  colour like blue and end with a bright colour like yellow probably.

https://www.colormatters.com/color-and-vision/color-and-vision-matters

https://www.quora.com/What-color-do-humans-see-as-brightest

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325476/Want-good-nights-sleep-Find-colours-use-bedroom-avoid-decent-kip.html

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/attentiongrabbing-colors-74162.html+

I read some articles (links above) concerning the brightness of colours, and in the end Read more →

Below are the photos showing the process of constructing the box. First, the frame of the box was made.

After the frame was completed, black clothes and the translucent plastic were then nailed to the it.

And after hours of work, the box was completed.

After some thoughts, I found a solution to the difficulty I encountered which is instead of hanging the box, I can just put on the ground. The sketch below is an iteration of the box installation.

Again, I set up a small scale of the box to see if it would work.

Despite the experience is not as immersive as the first Read more →

From my experiment outside the library being successful, I carried on with the idea of a hanged box above the bean bag.

Around the middle of the set up, I encountered a serious issue which was the difficulty to taped the paper onto the hanging metal panel. Due to this obstacle, I had to dump the idea of the hanged box.

On my way out of the library after I packed everything on the first day, I was thinking of ways to create an immersive space around the bean bag. As I came out of the library, I saw the usual projected announcement on the window and had an idea for my installation.

Below is a sketch of the possible set to Read more →

The first day at the library was to try out whether what I had in mind would work. The picture below shows the projector displaying the changing colours onto the wardrobe. The result was an immersive experience where the room was drowned under the colours from the projector.

To start off, I projected onto some areas around the bean bag to Read more →

Below are sketches of what I was interested to do for the library installation. The first idea I had was sort of a sound proof booth where people could go in and talk. The reason behind this idea was to provide the people in the library a space where they could talk without disrupting other persons.

The main features of the Read more →

Group members: Rochele & Ling Ern

From the site research, we have come out with some ideas for the site-specific installation, mainly based on people’s perception of the library as well as feedbacks received from the interviews.

3 Proposed Ideas:

Idea One – Lost Age

Project Synopsis

Technology has greatly improved people’s reading experience these days, and Read more →