Module 4 reflection

DIGITAL DESIGN AND FABRICATION

MODULE 4 REFLECTION

ZEYU LI634 091

DIGITAL DESIGN AND FABRICATIONMichelle Emma James

SEMESTER 1 2015


CONTENT

IDEATION

DESIGN

FABRICATIO

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REFLECTION

APPENDIX


MODULE 1IDEATION


M1.01

OBJECT

PAPER FAN IS A TYPICAL SKIN & BONE STRUCTURAL SYSTEM. A SIMPLE CONNECTION, PIN CONNECTION IS APPLIED TO THIS SYSTEM. PIN CONNECTION PROVIDES THE ABILITY OF THE STRUCTURE TO CHANGE THE VOLUMES EASY AND FAST. A FOLDING SURFACE AND A RIG-

ID STRUCTURE AND A PIN CONNECTION KEEP THE SYSTEM WORK PERFECTLY.


IN ORDER TO MAKE PAPER FAN WORKS PERFECTLY, FOLDING IS A SIGNIFICANT THING TO CONSIDER AS WELL AS BECOMING A KEY POINT IN OUR DESIGN LATER. AS LISA LWAMOTO DISCUSSED IN HER ARTICLE “DIGITAL FABRI-

CATION - ARCHITECTURAL AND MATERIAL TECHNIQUES“ (2009)

“FOLDING TURNS A FLAT SURFACE INTO A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ONE “

M1.02

FOLDING


M1.03

ANALYSIS - MEASURED DRAWINGS

MATERIAL IS ANOTHER KEY POINT TO THINK ABOUT PAPER FAN AS FOLDING IS THE MOSTLY LITERALLY MATERIAL OP-ERATION. THE SURFACE SHOULD BE NATURALLY DEFORMATED AND INFLECTED TO CREATE THE THREE-DIMENSION-AL. MATERIAL SHOULD BE STIFF AND RIGID ENOUGH TO CHANGE AND ALSO SHOULD SPAN AND SELF-SUPPORTING.


M1.04

DESIGN PROPOSAL - ANALYSIS

BY THINKING ABOUT THE FOLDING SYSTEM, I FIRSTLY COMING UP WITH A VERY FLUID SHAPE (THE MIDDLE ONE). I WANT TO CREATIVE SOME THREE-DIMENSIONAL WITH DIFFERENT VOLUMES. THE MATERIAL FOR THIS ONE SHOULD BE VERY SOFT AND EASY TO SHAPED. HOWEVER, RIGIDITY STIFFNESS SHOULD ACHIEVED AS WELL, OTHERWISE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO SUPPORT BY THEMSELVES. SO I DID OTHER TWO WORKS WHICH BOTH HAVE RIGID STRUCTURES IN

SOME WAY TO HOLD THE STRUCTURES AND PROVIDE A CHANGING VOLUME.


MODULE 2DESIGN


M2.01

PRECEDENTWORKS

ONCE-WOODEN DRESSERS - JUM NAKNO - 2005

FALL COLLECTION - OSCAR CARVALLO - 2014

JUM NAKAO CREATED ONCE-WOODEN DRESSERS IN 2005, THEY USED LIGHT WEIGHT MATERIAL PAPER TO FORM THE DRESSERS AND USED LASER CUT TO SUPPORT THE SHAPE. THE COMBINATION AND THE CONTRAST OF FLUID AND RIGIDITY WORKED REALLY WELL TO CREATE THE VOLUME. THE COLLECTION OF OSCAR CARVAL-LO SHOWS HOW EASY A FABRIC CAN SHAPE THE BODY WELL AND ALSO CREATE A KEEP CHANGING VOLUME.


BURNHAM PAVILION I ZAHA HADID DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER PRECEDENT WORKS, WHICH USED DIFFER-ENT MATERIALS TO ACHIEVE THE DESIGN INTENT, HADID USED A STIFF MATERIAL BUT MAKE A REALLY FLU-ID SHAPE. SKIN AND BONE STRUCTURE CONCEPT HAS REALLY SHOWN IN THIS PROJECT. MEANWHILE, A CONTINUOUS CONNECTION ALSO USED TO SUPPORT THE FLUID SHAPE. LASER CUT IS A GOOD OPTION.

M2.02

PRECEDENTWORKS

BURNHAM PAVILION - ZAHA HADID - 2009


M2.03

PERSONAL SPACE

“...SPACE: IT IS THERE, BUT WE DON’T TALK ABOUT THIS...”

IT IS COMMON THAT EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN SPACE, A ZONE THAT THEY FEEL SAFE. BUT IT CHANGES WHEN WE FACING WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE. OUR GROUP DID A TEST OF HOW BIG IS OUR PERSONAL SPACE IS. IT SEEMS NO ONE WANTS TO GET TOO CLOSE TO A PERSON THAT WE DON’T KNOW BECAUSE OF POTENTIAL RISKS. PEOPLE WILL PROTECT THEMSELVES AGAINST INVASIONS, BUT IN DIFFERENT WAYS. FROM THE BOOK “PERSONAL SPACE“ SOMMER (1969) POINTED OUT THAT INTROVERTS AND ANXIOUS PEOPLE HAVE BIGGER PERSONAL SPACE THAN EXTROVERTS.

30cm 65cm 120cm

INTIMATE ZONE FRIEND ZONE STRANGER ZONE


M2.04

DESIGNCONCEPT

FLEXIBLECONTRAST

“TO CREATE A FLUID SHAPE BUT CONTAINS FLEXIBILITY TO DEAL WITH DIFFERENT FORMS BY USING MULTIPLE TOOLS AND MATERIALS.”

FLUID


M2.05

FIRST DESIGN IDEA

BASED ON OUR DESIGN CONCEPT AND BOTH OF US CREATED A FLUID WRAPAROUND SHAPE TO PRO-TECT THE BODY. TO AVOID MONOTONOUS DESIGN, DIFFERENT LAYERS ARE CREATED TO ADD MORE LIGHTING EFFECTS. TO ACHIEVE THE CONTRAST IDEA, ONE AGGRESSIVE BENDING SHAPE WITH COMING

OUT THORNS IS APPLIED AS WELL.


CONCEPT CONTRAST WILL BE SHOWN IN DIFFERENT MATERIALS. THE WRAPPED PART WILL BE MADE IN SOFT AND LIGHT WEIGHT MATERIAL - PAPER, IN ORDER TO SHAPE THE FORM. A RIGID MATERIAL MAYBE

MDF WILL BE APPLIED TO CREATED THE DEFENSIVE PART.

M2.06

PLAN&SECTION


M2.05DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

THE FIRST DESIGN WE COMING UP HAS TWO OB-JECTS COMBINE TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE THE CON-TRAST DESIGN INTENT, ONE IS VERY FLUID AND THE OTHER IS VERY RIGID. BUT SOME PROBLEMS SHOWN UP AS WELL. FIRSTLY, HOW WE MAKE THE FLUID PART STANDING BY THEMSELVES ON THE BODY AND HOW WE CONNECT THESE TWO DIF-FERENT OBJECT. MEANWHILE THE DESIGN DOES NOT LOOKS INTEGRATED, AND THE FLUID PART IS NOT VISUAL STRONG ENOUGH. SO WE CHANGED DESIGN BY ONLY USING THE BENDING SHAPE AND FORMED AROUND THE HAND AND HEAD. THE SECOND DESIGN IS LIKE A DRESS BUT IT IS A DE-FENSIVE DRESS. IT’S A NORMAL DRESS WHEN YOU FACING WITH PEOPLE THAT YOU KNOW. AND IT CAN PULL THE FRONT BIT AND SHOULDER PARTS UP AND COVER THE HEAD AREA TO CREATE A PER-SONAL SPACE, AND THE THORNS IS POINTING OUT AND PROTECT THE BODY. BUT TOO MANY THINGS IN ONE DESIGN, SO WE ONLY KEEP THE FRONT

BENDING SHAPE IN FINAL DESIGN.


M2.06

FINAL DESIGN


M2.07

FINAL DESIGN


MODULE 3FABRICATION


M3.01

DIGITAL PREPARATION


“...WORKING DIGITALLY ENABLES MOVEMENT FROM ONE REPRESENTATIONAL FORMAT TO

ANOTHER...“

CURVED SHAPE IS USING A LOT IN OUR FINAL DEISN, AND IT IS BIT DIFFICULT TO CUT BY HAND, SO WE LASER CUT BOX BOARD TO GET OUR JOB. LWAMOTO (2009) ONCE MENTIONED THAT CURVED SHAPE ARE RELATIVELY COMPLEX AND EXPANSIVE.

HOWEVER, WORK DIGITALLY CAN REDUCE COST AND LABOUR AS MOST WORK ARE DONE BY CON-TROLED THE COMPUTER. THE PICTURE SHOW THE FABLAB TEMPLATE WE PREPARED FOR LA-SER CUT AND THE ASSEMBLE DIAGRAM AS WELL. BECAUSE WE USED FABRIC TO COVER THE BOX-BOARD AND CONNECTIONS AND ALSO MAKE OUR DESIGN MORE LIKELY A DRESSE, SO ALL THE CONNECTIONS ARE SEWED BY HAND WHICH CAN PROVIDE A FLEXIBLE MOVEMENT AS WELL.


M3.02

PROTOTYPE

LIGHTING CREATING SOME REALLY INTERESTING AND POWER ON VISUAL IMPACT. THROUGH THE LEC-TURE, VISUAL IMPACT IS MENTIONED WHICH CAN MAKE A DESIGN STRONGER AND MORE IMPRESSIVE. SO WE TEST HOW DIFFERENT SHAPES CAN FORM DIFFERENT SHADOWS AND EFFECTS. SOME CONNECTION DETAILS, HOW TO USED WIRE TO SUPPORT LIGHT WEIGHT MATERIALS TO STAND BY THEMSELVES AS WELL.


M3.03

PERFORMANCE


M3.04

PERFORMANCE


MODULE 4REFLECTION


M4.01

REFLECTION

“...DIGITAL IN SENSE IT IS A NET-WORK OF INFORMATION AND RE-SPONSIVE TO THE CONTEXT...“

IN THIS SUBJECT I REALLY MET LOTS CHAL-LENGES AND MADE MY DESIGN PROCESS RE-ALLY DIFFICULT. JUST LIKE WHAT LWAMOTO WROTE IN HER ARTICLE, DIGITAL MODELLING HAS IT’S POTENTIAL TO IGNORE THE CON-NECTION BETWEEN TWO OBJECTS, THEY AFFORDING A HYPOTHETICALLY SEAMLESS CONNECTION DESIGN AND MAKING. BUT THE REALITY DOES NOT LIKE THIS.

THE FIRST MODEL FOR OUR DESIGN WAS FAILED BECAUSE WE SPENT NEARLY 30 HOURS TRIED TO GLUE THE FABRIC TO THE BOX BOARD WITHOUT DAMAGE THE SHAPE AND BENDING ABILITY WHEREAS IN RHINO, REN-DER CAN ACHIEVE THIS IN FEW MINUTES. BUT IT HELPS US TO ELIMINATE ALL THE THINGS THAT NOT NECESSARY AND MAKE OUR DE-SIGN BIT SIMPLE BUT STILL IMPRESSIVE.


M4.02

REFLECTION

SECONDLY, I’VE USED MULTIPLE TOOLS AND MATERIALS DURING THE PROCESS IN MAKING THE FINAL MODEL. WE USED LASER CUT TO CUT THE SUPPORTING STRUCTURE AND USED FABRIC TO COVER THE CONNECTIONS.

MY FIRST SEWING WORK IS FOR THIS SUB-JECT. I MADE A WHITE DRESS AT THE FIRST TIME WHEN WE DID THE PROTOTYPE. BUT WE DIDN’T USE IT IN THE END AS WE THINK IT’S NOT NECESSARY AND IT IS A BIT UGLY. WHAT I WANT TO SAY IS I’VE REALLY LEARNT A LOT IN THIS SUBJECT, NOT ONLY THE DIGITAL SOFT WARES LIKE RHINO, PHOTOSHOP AND INDE-SIGN, BUT ALSO LEARNT THAT SOMETIMES KEEP THE DESIGN SIMPLE IS BETTER TO PUT THE ALL THE IDEAS IN ONE DESIGN. COMMU-NICATION IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT THING DURING THE GROUP WORK, OTHERWISE NO WORK WILL BE DONE.

“...MAKING BECOMES KNOWL-EDGE OR INTELLIGENCE CREA-

TION...”


APPENDIX.01

REFERENCES

READING REFERENCE:

Lwamoto, L 2009, Digital fabrications: architectural and material techniques New York, Princeton Architectural Pres.

Rifkin, J 2011, The third Industrial Revolution Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Sommer, R 1969, Personal space : the behavioral basis of design / Robert Sommer, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall.

Dezeen Magazine 2009, Burnham Pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects, viewed 7th June 2015,<http://www.dezeen.com/2009/08/24/burnham-pavilion-by-zaha-hadid-architects-2/>

Parrish, J 2009, Once - Wooden Dresses, viewed 7th June 2015,<http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/jum-nakao-paper-dresses>

Carvallo, O 2014, Oscar Carvallo Fall 2014 Collection, viewed 1st June 2015,< http://nymag.com/thecut/runway/2014/fall/paris/couture/oscar-carvallo/>

RECOMMAND VIDEO:

Natali, E 2014, Seaweed’s of light -defining personal space, viewed 5th June 2015,< http://www.iaacblog.com/maa2013-2014-public-space-capsules/2014/03/seaweeds-of-light-defining-person-al-space/ >

The Creatorsproject < https://youtu.be/f0Vo4QlycrY >


CREDITS

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CREDITS


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SEMESTER 1 2015

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