Animation, Weeks 6-7

Gathering Brief
You and four colleagues are setting up your first business. You nees premises that will allow you to bring in and store all the things you need for your enterprising office/studio. Each of you brings a different skill set to the job. Identify their needs and design an office with appropriate space for them to store all their stuff. One of your colleagues won the european lottery and is bringing their favourite building! (identified in the matrix you recieved earlier). Another has a thing for doors and insists there must be a front door, a backdoor and at least one other threshold for them to enjoy. A third demands that you identify every service you need is and map it so they can walk to it within 10 minutes. And the fourth loves what you have done before and wants them included into the project.

My Super Team
For my architecture business to be a big success, it is essential I have a team of five highly trained professionals. These people include an engineer, a computer technician, an artist, a lawyer and myself, a revolutionary architect. Our business Will be located on top of an apartment building, budget and also rent a car buildings, on beach road. I will do all of the designing and our engineer will make it happen. The artist will put some excitement into our lives by having their artwork all throughout the interior of our building. The computer techno- wizz will deal with websites and 3d modelling software. The lawyer will be in charge of sorting out any legal issues in the process of our epic new style of designing, as well as sorting out our money issues etc. Our practice will change the way civilisation thinks about a "building" and really just design some abstract, crazy stuff!!  

Some Inspiration
The following photos all show a new form of architecture sitting directly on top of old architecture. This is the solution to the cluster issues on my site. Instead of demoliting the buildings that are already there, or constructing next to it; I will design a structure that sits on top of them. My new architecture building will bend societies rules of physics and design :) 

Site
Below are multiple photos which show the existing buildings on beach rd, which Im planning on building directly on top of...because theres plenty of space in the sky. My design will definatly be multistoried as well. 

Extras

A few photoshop pictures showing my stall in its natural market environment. However it is a bit small in the photo below.........

Experimentation with light and the perspex floor's reflective qualitites....awesome photo below

Final Model Processes

 My card material just after it had been lasercut. I drew up all the individual pieces on autocad. This shows how I have incorporated the lasercutting itself into the structure of my design.

I left tabs on all the pieces, in order to ensure they didnt move out of place during lasercutting. Every piece has a 5mm incision every 2cm, however this is halved for the smaller pieces.

Overall there were sixty strips of card, including 10 smaller versions, used to make up my design.

 The technique I used involved linking the incisions on the pieces, together with another perpendicular piece, to make a slightly angled lattice. As each piece was added the overall shape of the lattice curved in two different directions, displaying the form of the segment shown below.  

First individual segment made...

Hours of work later, I have accomplished five segments and now starting to complete the smaller versions

The relationship between normal and smaller segments is being shown on the left. At the moment the structure is only being temporarily held together by tape, just so I can make sure everything is correct and in the right place.

Front view of my design showing off its attractive twisting asthetics. I really liked the idea of the end of the design morphing back into the ground, to fully portray its fluidity.

Testing out the durability of pins as joints. In the end I did choose to use them because they held each segment together quite firmly but also allowed the twisting asthetic to be dismantlable.

Pin joint connection in action....

After experimentation with different options for the floor, prespex was chosen because of its reflective and transparent qualities. In real life it would be glass so people can see through it, allowing the shape of the structure to not be interupted in any way.

Pin joints were also chosen to be used on the floor to avoid a change in material. Looks very sharp having all the joints look the same. Doesn't in any way steal attention from the structure itself.  

Full length perspex floor showing all the joints as well as its reflective capabilities...

The floor does have ability to be folded, when packing up the stall...

Front view of design complete with floor...

I decided to burn the whole structure to give it a "scorched" effect. I wanted to take my market stall a step further by allowing people inside to feel captured or trapped by the architecture. At the same time the design will appeal to all of their senses.  

Alot of fun with lighter...

and time......

being careful not to catch fire to the whole thing....

This process took quite alot of time....

but worth it... Final design with "scorching" effect complete!!

Side View..

Interior...

More Interior.... perspex floor is very reflective

Laser Cutting Weeks 4-5

Brief

The brief of our laser cutting project is to design a market stall, the size of two car parks, which is approximately 5 by 5 metres. We must be creative and have some form of personal interest in the product we are selling or the activity taking place, in our stall. The overall theme for the next two weeks is sustenance, so the design and product of our stall must relate back to this idea. Sustenance involves everything in which the human body needs, in order for us to feel sustained. This can be anything from the basic necessities of food, water, shelter and cleanliness to the more complex ideas of social interaction and personal fitness. The final model of our stall must be able to be dismantled, just as all market stalls can be. 

 

Sustenance idea

Why is it that mankind always has the need to smell attractive to the opposite sex? This arguement shows how a large part of sustenance today, is smelling good. For this exact reason mens cologne is going to be the selected product for my market stall. The attractive powers of pheromones and the idea of "smelling amazing", is sustenance.

Thumbnail Sketches - the first step
These sketches are just what I drew to help me do some research as to why my product is so appealling to society. Cologne comes in many different brands with various designs and shapes. Advertising is also a very important aspect of mens cologne as it draws people into buying it. The smell of the cologne itself is just one reason, out of many, used to boost attention.  

Design Experimentation                                       
In the beggining we were told to try and incorporate the use of laser cutting into the structure of our designs, not just for simply decorating. My inspiration for a design that was able to be dismantled came from modular interlinking, shown opposite. So my starting point was to experiment with interlinking pieces of card into a square latice. However as I did this the card started naturally curving on accident, which was actually very visually attractive.  

The above concept for my market stall is made of multiple card segments, like the one shown in the photo on the right. I noticed that all the segments could be joined together to form one large twisting design that seems to be warping. For my final model I will laser cut all the pieces of the design and put them together in segments. These segments will be joined with joints that make it able to be dismantled. Card will still be used in my final model as I believe finding another material, with the same bending capabilities, is too time consuming. 

Second Semester Design

 

Augmented reality drawing showing suspended glass bridge design and bed placed in the middle.