This week’s agenda: Form ideation of seating sculptures.
The initial idea was to complete a series of seating sculptures inspired by the more prominent form in trees: Banyan’s vertical canopy, Tanjong’s long and wavy-edged leaves and Binjai’s fruit.
KS suggested that we redefine these elements into a singular piece instead. We also keep in mind of the purpose of seat is to invite social interaction.
Research
Peter Opsvik’s Garden (1985) demolishes the typical sitting position and allow people to sit freely in their most comfortable postures.
Globe Garden (2014) with a more natural colour palette.
We find this piece of work inspiring as it allows users to sit anyhow they’d like to, just like how we behave in nature – we can choose to sit on the floor, a rock, or lying on sand by the beach for example.
Ideation
In our case, we have a general idea of colliding nature (represented by the 3 types of trees) with human interaction (repopulating the communal plaza as main objective). Interactiveness is kept analog and simple, solar panel technology will be included as a providence of light source during night time.
Here are the primary sketches in form exploration (very random sketches that helped us think):
Integration of three elements into one is challenging and we found ourselves separating them as we further explored. We tried to simplify our form into:
*Fruitfulness from Binjai is changed from its fruits to the bundle of leaves (presence of collective mass), another characteristic from the tree.
We formed simple sketching equations to steer away from our mindless combination of the three elements.
> adding two elements together:
> adding 3 elements together:
Further explorations:
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Proposed Materials:
^ As example shown, planar cut wood and bent steel for possible organic curvy forms.
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UPDATE!!!!!
Here’s a quick prototype after this morning’s consultation.
Interpreting elements in an abstract way; kind of like a hybrid-like tree form that expresses positive outreach, nurturing and fruitfulness.
**Model scaled at 1:10
Till next week, we’ll be exploring more forms of seat, height, composition as a whole. A refined model will be done on 3D rendering.
Stay tuned! (☞ (͡◕ ͜ʖ ͡◕)☞
