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Week 11-More refinements made for structure

Worked on exploring what could possibly be the base, besides a pole straight down. Here are some explorations…

Too overwhelmingly crazy, but still interesting

Also, upon consulting fabrizio, we discussed about the mechanism and how the petals seem disconnected and not in union with the pole as shown above.

Fabrizio suggested some slot at the bottom to prevent the heavier top from turning over due to its weight. This will seek to limit the minimum and maximum angle each petal will tilt.

Then, thought if each petal can be staggered progressively in term of its height, to give it a more 3 dimensional look and volumetric quality from different angles

Looks ok, but still not too satisfied with the straight and rigid pole down

Week 10-Feedbacks and alterations done

Feedbacks:

Thin down each element piece, to reduce the bulk of overall sculpture
Concern regarding stagnant water in container
Unify three sculptures, through mechanism
Material concerns (in terms of thickness + Weight + Aesthetics)
Solve weighted bottom
Dang-ly weights on ‘fluffy’ sheet looks too rigid
Name the sculpture

Improvisation made:

General consensus that the three elements should remain independent of each other
Dang-ly weights more spread out and poking in multiple directions
Rainwater weighted mechanism ditched
Carbon fibre
Attempts to unify the 3 separated elements, but still looks chunky and heavy
Dangly weights more spread out
Thickness thinned down significantly
Arrayed it 5 times around for more volume, since its a lot thinner now
Added ‘feelers’ sprawling out from the centre
Curved base to make structure more stable when rooted to the ground
Fabrizio thought it was short and stubby, and decided to elongate it by stretching the structure. And it looked a lot more elegant and proportionate
He also mentioned if the curved base was necessary, and suggested it to be just a straight line down, like a pole
Will keep in view his pointers, as both of us thinks the pole would make the whole structure look like an exotic victorian street lamp

Week 14- Final Presentation

Final presentation slides:

Feedback gathered:

Fabrizio suggested that we do away with the weighted ‘floating’ elements on the petals; instead, he mentioned that we could attach the elements like what we did to the centre pieces, and let them sway when they catch the wind.

Douglas was also concern with the mechanism of the petals, which was our concern too as the moments for the pivot is indeed hard to measure and gauge.

Some post presentation fun shots:

LOL, congrats to both of us for making it to the end!

Special mention of this awesome group of classmates who help us for the model! Many many many thanks to them, really appreciate all your time, effort and helpfulness when we’re desperate 🙂

Pretty much how the whole process is like helping me, haha!

Fun shot cause why not?

Week 13- Rendering, mock ups

Template for laser cut

Cutting centre support piece to hold stands together

Due to flimsy-ness of the centre piece, the additional floating elements with weights cannot be added on as as it is structurally heavy and cant hold up 🙁

Final outcome of model:

Renderings:

Had a few colour schemes in mind, but decided to tone it down to just NTU’s identity colours of dark blue and red for brand association and awareness.

Access A1 poster below:

Group7 A1 Poster

Week 12-More refinements made to structure

Decided to explore more ways to improve the supporting structure, rather than just a straight pole down

Sketched some curves from our plants inspiration with can be used for the base

Sketches to rhino, but looks bulky and overpowering of the top elements after consulting Fabrizio

Then tried to reduce the curves and stagger it so that the structure is in sync with the top petals

Structure against the a human scale

Side view of one single element before arraying

Front view of the same one single element before arraying

Week 9: Presentation

Week 7-8 Mock-Up

Looking into curvature and proportion of each element such that when pierced through the rod, the sculpture looks balanced when not in motion. This can be seen in the sketches and cutout of curves.

Upon adding the foam in between each piece of element, the structure looks bulky, rigid, and somewhat separated, not cohesive as a petal.

To solve that, the ‘hooded’ bottom from each element piece is synched in, forming a tapered look. This added some volumetric quality to this one petal sculpture, which nicely combined all three element pieces together.

However, the negative spaces of the tapered bottom is hard to measure such that it can be filled to form a container, using solely laser cut…

So, we are still trying to figure that out…

Week 4-5 Ideation

Reference sculptures that harnesses wind/ water to move, playing with the notion of counter balancing (main mechanism we are looking at for our piece)