Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Sense n sensability machine . 1:50 AM
We had to search for a location in school of which to design a machine to experience that space, taking a sense while enhancing one or more other senses. Sense n sensability machine . 1:50 AM
After much considerations, my group and i decided to decrease the sense of sight while enhancing the sense of touch.
To do this, we made a pair of googles which had could fit more than one "lens". At one time there would be two lens in the googles made out of printed transparencies. On each transparency, is printed black grids and when they are placed in the googles the user may adjust them to how much he/ she wants to see. This is because when the square grids do not meet they block out more sight and when they do, they overlap each other leaving gaps for the user to look through.
To increase the sense of touch, we made this boxy- wooden- finger tip gloves mechanism. We made slots at the tip of these finger gloves and added acrylic strips four of which bended in differents ways to maximise touch-angles. To adjust and control these strips, we added in "strings" to the tip of these strips. We also designed wooden wing-like flaps to be attched to the back part of the mechanism so as to "sense" if there is anything located at the back of the user.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Slices | Live + Work + Show . 9:59 AM
Slices | Live + Work + Show . 9:59 AM
The designer i chose to work on is Santiago Calatrava, he is an architect, sculptor and engineer.
Mood box
#1 For the first mood box, i placed a slope made out of paper clay and attached a picture of the sky to the top of the moodbox to depict a peaceful and back to nature feel however, it was not very successful and the slope cracked and broke due to its material.
#2 As a lot of works by Santiago Calatrava seem to be inspired by nature and the bones of animals, the second moodbox had a ribcage.
Mock up model
From the moodbox came bone- like structures which led on to the 1:100 moodbox cum shophouse. These had a sort of kinestatic feel to them and were arranged in a form of an S.
The 1:100 mock up model evolved to the 1:50 model which was quite different from the previous model. This one had structures all over the place, uncontrolled and interesting to the eye.
Shophouse Drawings . 8:50 AM
We tried going to a street near Heeren but managed to find one or two that fit the criteria. However one of them was an office and the other a private residence. After ringing the doorbell for the office, no one opened the door for us. The door of the private residence was opened however the owner was not at home and thus we could not go in and measure the shophouse so with almost half the day spent there, we headed to Heeren to take a break. At Hereen, we decided to head to Chinatown to see if we could find any shophouse with a forecourt and two airwells there and so we did.
We took a bus there and when we arrived, the team split up in search for the shophouse with a forecourt and two airwells. Finally the shophouse with one forecourt and two airwells was found! It was also turned into an office. We were given the floor plans and told to make an appointment another day to measure the elevation but we did not manage to do so in the end as they were busy.
Before we knew that we couldnt measure the elevation, the workload were divided amongst ourselves to and the drawing of the floorplans commenced. Due to unforseen circumstances, we had to estimate the height of the shophouse to draw the shophouse and thanks to efficient management by our team i/cs and co-orperation on everyones' part, we could have quite a few sections, elevations and even an onthorgraphic projection on top of the basic requirements!