Allyson Patterson & Madeleine Eyre Student Numbers: 649269 & 587528 Semester 2/2013 Tutorial 9
PERSONAL SPACE is a self-reflective aura created by the physical and mental perceptions of an environment in which only an individual can exist. It is an implied, non-physical, energetic field surrounding an individual.
The Design Brief calls for an innovative design of a second skin; a wearable volume or surface that accommodates the body. The second skin will explore, measure, and/or negotiate the boundary of personal space. The design must create a spatial or emotional effect.
M1: IDEATION
PRECEDENTS
Fenella Elms
Isabelle Wenzel
Jessica Drenk
SYSTEM ANALYSIS: SECTION & PROFILE PARTITION
Materials: White Plastic
Dimensions:
140 mm high x 492 mm long Measured beginning at bottom left corner. The object has been cut with scissors into smaller pieces during experimentation. The dimensions of the smaller pieces are shown in Plan A on Page 3.
Front and Back Elevation Scale 1:1
SYSTEM ANALYSIS: SECTION & PROFILE
Abstracted Partition: Based on Miralles: How to layout a croissant (1994) Analysis of profile and section planes through series of intersecting parallel and perpendicular lines. The partition is created through these intersecting parallel and perpendicular places in space.
Reconfiguring Exploration: My partition model utlilized both parallel and perpindicular planes, but I wanted to experiment with only parallel planes that bend in a curvature.
SYSTEM ANALYSIS: INFLATION
SECOND SKIN SKETCHES
M2: DESIGN
DESIGN PROCESS
The design process is extremely fluid and organic, making it difficult to accurately delineate in a chronological manner. In our process of reconfiguring our models and exploring within our material systems, we utilized the virtual pin board tool of Pinterest to capture our inspirational images as a visual train of thought. http://pinterest.com/alpats/sizzling-sections-infamous-inflatables/ http://pinterest.com/madeleineeyre/inflatable-art/
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/04/30/inflatable-art-in-hong-kong/
SECOND SKIN DEVELOPMENT I This Second Skin encapsulates the individual’s personal space and enables them to feel like they have a space that is only for them, but allows them to view the external world through lines of vision, as well as allows the external world to view them. The Extrusions will have clear inflatable platic with internal lighting to showcase the internal personal space.
Dora Kelemen
SECOND SKIN DEVELOPMENT II
PROTOTYPING EXPERIMENTATION I
PROTOTYPING EXPERIMENTATION II
SECOND SKIN DEVELOPMENT III
FRONT
SIDE
SECOND SKIN DEVELOPMENT IV
This development explores the idea of personal space as an energetic aura.
SECOND SKIN DEVELOPMENT V
Developing the design further after prototyping, we decided it would be easier to construct two flat sun-like structures instead of curved ribs. These two sun auras will be connected by our semi-translucent fabric.
The Rhino model cannot achieve the materiality of the fabric, so the actual structure will not be as rigid. Semitranslucent material is shown here.
PROTOTYPING EXPERIMENTATION III
Using Rhino, we unrolled our chest section and profile structure, and we sent it to the FabLab to laser cut so we could prototype. We used clear Perspex for our material to create the illusion of reflectivity. We also prototyped the central circle structure to which the spines will attach by section and profile methods.
M3: FABRICATION
DESIGN PROCESS We took some time to reflect upon our critique from Module 2 and further develop our Second Skin. Specifically, we followed the critique’s advice to not make our inflatable a solid, and experimented with various fabrics and pleating, crimping, and draping techniques.
http://www.museumoftheweird.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/plasma+ball.jpg
PRECEDENTS
FORTUNY Delphos Gown
ISSEY MIYAKE
PRECEDENTS
AKIRA PLEATING
PRECEDENTS
Inspiration from Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2: Similar to how Duchamp maps the body’s movement in his painting, our inflatable Second Skin will map the body’s movement in how it inflates
PRECEDENTS
Aerodynamics of a Car:
PROTOTYPING EXPERIMENTATION V Aerodynamics of Personal Space: Movement Mapping
RESULT: HEAT SETTING + STARCH SPRAY
PROTOTYPING EXPERIMENTATION IX
SECOND SKIN DEVELOPMENT VI
SECOND SKIN DEVELOPMENT VI
Perspective Rhino Model
Back Rhino Model
PROTOTYPING EXPERIMENTATION XII
We experimented in creating the structure with paper that we desired our inflation system to reach when fully inflated. The rigidity of the paper is only for prototype purposes, and in the model, the wearer will not have to hold it up with her hands.
PROTOTYPING EXPERIMENTATION XIII We developed a full 1:5 prototype of our Second Skin to make sure we knew how all of the individual pieces would connect in relation to the body
Inflation testing
PROTOTYPING EXPERIMENTATION XIII
Week 9 Prototype The openings of the front of the inflation system incorporate a view of the inner body’s panelling twist piece. These openings act as a section and profile system would, allowing the outsider to see something contained in the frame.
SECOND SKIN DEVELOPMENT VIII: FINAL
EXPLODED ISOMETRIC VIEW: ASSEMBLY
This isometric rendering helps indicate how the pieces of our Second Skin paneling all fit together.
ORTHOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS
Top
Perspective
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RIght
Front
UNROLLED RHINO VISUAL
MAKING
Craftsmanship was essential in our making process of the Second Skin. We heatset our fabric material with many rubber bands in boiling water, and used a sewing machine to construct our panels with a wire running through the one central loop surrounding the body. We decided to alter the most-back triangular extrusions to the handset material to aid inflation
FINAL DESIGN: MAPPING MOVEMENT
FINAL DESIGN: MAPPING MOVEMENT
FINAL DESIGN: MAPPING MOVEMENT
FINAL DESIGN: MAPPING MOVEMENT