FUTURE SURFACE
COFFEE GO’AROUND
EUNICE KIM
INTRODUCTION Take a familiar material and manipulate to become something unexpected. The resulting material must be either sustainable or must reuse a product or waste from manufaturing. Be innovative and forward-thinking. This is a material for the future.
WHY COFFEE GROUNDS? - Most adults have tasted coffee - 54 % of Americans over 18 drink coffee every day - Average coffee shop throws out around 22 pounds of coffee used grounds a day - 54 thousand coffee shop established in 2015 - Majority goes to a landfill I, however, believe that these grounds have potential for a new life and can be used to produce new materials.
PERSONALITY OF COFFEE GROUNDS FLAVOR ASPECTS AROMA RICH ACIDITY SPICY AUTHENTIC
TOUCH ASPECTS BRITTLE COMPLEX EARTHY EXOTIC NUTTY WET
VISUAL ASPECTS DARK BROWN HEAVY
SOURCE OF COFFEE GROUNDS
- Local coffee shops will provides free coffee grounds - Starbucks, Panera, Sweet waters, and Song birds for collecting coffee grounds (Ann Arbor, MI)
CONCEPT OF COFFEE GO’AROUND The texture, aroma, color and taste of coffee is authentic and rich. My surface concept is to change the original characteristics of coffee grounds to have a different quality. The original features of coffee grounds are earthy, brittle, wet, acidity, exotic, powdery and complex. The new material will be soft, smooth, rubbery, formable, and solid. As I manipulate the surface of the coffee grounds, I want to keep the scent of coffee so that people can notice by one of their sense to recognize the basic ingredient even though the appearance is completely different.
INSPIRATIONS
CATEGORIES OF COFFEE GO’AROUND 1 2 3 4 5
EARTH GLASS CORK BEAD PLASTER
PROCESS OF MAKING
COFFEE GO’AROUND EARTH
PROCESS: - Mix with coffee grounds, water and flours - Put it in an oven for 10 mins
KEY FEATURES: - Drys firm and solid - Smell low - Rough texture
POSSIBLE APPLICATION: - Package - Tiles - Product: Pot, Vase, Containers
COFFEE GO’AROUND EARTH
COFFEE GO’AROUND GLASS
PROCESS: - Mix with coffee grounds and resins - Stir really well and leave for 48 hours
KEY FEATURES: - Very strong and rigid - Translucent - Coffee grounds’ particle creates patterns
POSSIBLE APPLICATION: - Cup - Lightings - Package
COFFEE GO’AROUND GLASS
PROCESS- #2 CLAY
COFFEE GO’AROUND CORK
PROCESS: - Mix with coffee grounds and white clay - Use different amount of coffee grounds to create various color differences
KEY FEATURES: - Soft and flexible - When it dry it feels like cork - Rubbery texture
POSSIBLE APPLICATION: - Part of Wall - Pin board - Package - Cup holder
COFFEE GO’AROUND CORK
COFFEE GO’AROUND BEAD
PROCESS: - Mix with coffee grounds and white clay - Use different amount of coffee grounds to create various color differences - Mold in sphere shape with different sizes
KEY FEATURES: - Soft and flexible - When it dry it feels like cork - Rubbery texture - Stronger than flat surface
POSSIBLE APPLICATION: - Jewerly - Perfume cleanser - Decoration
COFFEE GO’AROUND BEAD
COFFEE GO’AROUND PLASTER
PROCESS: - Mix with coffee grounds, plaster and water - Leave inside the frame for 10-20mins until dry
KEY FEATURES: - Strong and hard - Feels like brick - Cold and smooth surface
POSSIBLE APPLICATION: - Brick - Wall partition
COFFEE GO’AROUND PLASTER
COFFEE GO’AROUND
COFFEE GO’AROUND
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