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DIGITAL DESIGN + FABRICATION SM1, 2016 M2 JOURNAL - Skin & Bone Yuebing Xiao, Collings Jack (751795, 756547) Lyle+ Seminar(11)

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CONTENTS

SKETCH DESIGN DEVELOPMENT - SKETCH MODEL (P3) SKETCH RHINO MODEL (P5) PRECEDENT RESEARCH - DUNESCAPE (P7) KINETIC WALL (P9) DESIGN DEVELOPMENT - VERSION 1 & 2 (P11) TESTING EFFECTS (P15) PROTOTYPES (P16) REFERENCE (P18)

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SKETCH DESIGN DEVELOPMENT - 2 SKETCH MODELS Element

Element

Through repeating elements to form a unregular structure to support human’s head, neck and shoulders. Besides, the surface outside the structure is to hide human from light.

Following the geometric form of a triangle as a bone membrane that will support the person for a ‘nap’. The bone is the solid lines of the formed 3D and 2D membrane, which would hold a fabric/ skin like compond to case the structure.

Through discussing the 2 sketch designs, it can be seen that the similarity is both repeating the samilar triangular elements to form the structure. However, these two structures are not moveable; therefore, it might be hard and not comfortable for human to sleep.

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SKETCH DESIGN DEVELOPMENT - SKETCH MODELS

This drawing illustrates the transmission of the force.

The transmission of the force on an umbrella is from surface to frame. By analysing the force transmission, we got the new idea that the force on skin makes movement to be happened on the bone structures. The idea is trying to design a movable frame, which makes human feel much more flexible and comfortable.

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SKETCH DESIGN DEVELOPMENT - SKETCH RHINO MODELS

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Top view

Right view

Perspective view

Right view

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PRECEDENT RESEARCH - Dunescape Dunescape at moma, New York completed in 2006.

Designed by Shop Architects.

Overlay, Repition, Rhythm

The layers in the dunesape design present a stacking of miniml spacing between the elements and present the unique form, as constructed by the Architects at Shop Architecture.

Description of precedent The structure was designed in accord to the satisfaction of a social entity, being used in multiple ways as a summer art piece. The concept of the overlaying timber member’s presents the bases of the design, as the individual elements are slightly bigger or smaller in a differing shape that together in line creates this owing effect and movement.

Images retrieved from, http://www.shoparc.com/projects/dunescape-at-moma-ps1

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Precedent applied to design

How can you use this precedent to influence your design ?

The idea of the overlaying of similar elements to form an object has been adapted in our design. The same form of repetion and connection joints to hold the form of a shape has also been explored in our design ideas and modeling of the prototype.

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PRECEDENT RESEARCH - Kinetic Wall Kinetic Wall By Barkow Leibinger

Tension, Movement, Dynamic

Description of precedent This design is of a shape-shifting wall that moves in and out, continuously moving bringing the wall to life. The kinetic wall followes the basis of “the utopian dream of an architecture that can move”, as presented in the moving arms pushing the fabricated skin of the wall. This design is of a shape-shifting wall that moves in and out, continuously moving bringing the wall to life. The kinetic wall followed the basis of “the utopian dream of an architecture that can move”, as presented in the moving arms pushing the fabricated skin of the wall. http://www.dezeen.com/2014/06/18/kinetic-wall-barkow-leibinger-elements-venice-biennale-2014/

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Precedent applied to design

How can you use this precedent to influence your design ?

The movement used in the kinetic wall is present in the configuration of this moveable pin-jointed diagram. this function also acts as a moveable architectural basis, strengthening the interest of this design.

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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT - VERSION 1 Design 1, involved the concept of a personal comfort zone. In which the design would be spaced out and engulf the body and act as a support to the body and the head while sleeping. We changed the design multiple times trying to gage what whould be a comfortable solution.

Some of the trials and fromation of the main bone of the design, created around the bosy and how this would work as a comfortable solution along with the practicality of the shaping around the body.

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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT - VERSION 2 Looking at making a continuous layered extenstion of the membrane, that is stacking the elements along one based pin joint. changed the ideas of being an extention of the body to more of its own structure. Something that can be placed on a table or a wall and the movements engaged in during sleep would rearange the structures ultimate form while supporting the head inside the connected skin.

From the use of this triangle like element, we slowly adapted a more dynamic connection system and joinary to bring forth the 5 piece model and further developed how to make the system work as a whole.

The development of successfully layering the joints of the five piece set, created a great difficulty as the system has a very high limitation of what layer can be connected to another layer and how the functional purposeof the moving mechinisms interplay together.

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TESTING EFFECTS

Movement and function can be seen from the singular elements of how the joinery works within the mechanism. The form of the structure thus is manipulated through the point of force and adjusts accordingly to satisfy the force onto the point of load.

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PROTOTYPES

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PROTOTYPE

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REFERENCES

Dunescapes by Shop Architects (2006). Retrieved from http://www.shoparc.com/projects/dunescape-at-moma-ps1 Kinetic wall by Barkow Leibinger (2014). Retrieved from http://www.dezeen.com/2014/06/18/kinetic-wall-barkow-leibinger-elements-venice-biennale-2014/

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