DDF M2 Jiexin Wang

DIGITAL DESIGN + FABRICATION SM1, 2016 M2 JOURNAL - PANEL AND FOLD Jiexin Wang, Yingkai Chen & Matthew Qin Amanda Masip

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Sketch Design Development- Combining Ideas KEY WORDS EXTRACTED FROM YINGS SKETCH DESIGN

Modular, Organic, Cresent, Free-flowing Sketch Design Development The idea of using the curved cresent shapes were used as the basis of the combined design. The curving shapes of the design wined around the body in order to help fully incase the personal space of the wearer. While the free flowing shapes would attempt to follow the movements and contours of the body.

Details of the Profile and Section’s modular design.

Weaknesses: The curvaceous forms of Ying’s profile and section are rigid and inflexible on their own.

Therefore, the shapes themsleves are too static to fulfill the needs of the wearers dynamic and everchanging personal space.

Ying’s design

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Sketch Design Development- Combining Ideas KEY WORDS EXTRACTED FROM YINGS SKETCH DESIGN

Multi-Functional, Foldable, Compacting Sketch Design Development Jiexin’s and Qingyang’s design introducted the idea of functionality into the design. The closing and opennig ideas of both of these sketch designs relate to flexibility of changing personal space as it able to adapt to the comfort of the wearer.

The compressing functionality of the panel and fold designs.

Weaknesses: The straight sketetal frame sugguests a very neutral emotional response which may not be aggressive enough to elicit the sense of intimadiaton required for the defensive second skin.

Jiexin’s design

Matthew’s design

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Sketch Design Development Personal Space Abstraction Defensive Mechanism When personal space is threatened, disturbed and or intruded, an act of reltaliation will will be taken. In Mattews case, this act is crossing his arms. In addition, putting his hands on hips is another form of motion taken when personal boundaries have been intruded.

Mattew’s personal boundary measured by Jiexin

In order to design a 2nd skin project that protects Personal space well, we regard Mattew’s body as a site and examine his personal boundary to proceed site analysis. Through testing and measuring, we learnt Mattew requires a relatively long distance facing to strangers, and got the most sensitive part in his eye ahead. Meanwhile, less distance and space are needed for back and lowe body. Therefore, our design will basically foucus on creating Mattew’s distance of front and side from strangers.

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Hands on hip

Hands cross

Design Development Combining Ideas and Patternisation From analysing and exploring the strengths of the stetch designs we decieded on using the cresent moon shape of Ying’s design along with the folding and compressing functionality of the panel and fold ideas of Jiexin and Matthew.

The cresent moon shapes reconstructured into a developable surfac consisting of diamond shapes.

Mountain Folds

Valley Folds

A diamond plan made up tessilated diamond shapes and the use of mountain and valley folds granted the design the ability to compress and fold into the desired cresent shape.

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Design Development: Patternisation When deciding between the best method in protecting ones personal space, we decided to take a note from nature. one of the primary case studies our group used was the defencive traits of the hedgehog.

The spines of a hedgehodg are developed for protection against predators. When at a calm state the hedgehogs spines are all confined to it’s back, leaving the rest of body visible and exposed. However, when the hedgehodg is been threatened, they will curl up, causing it’s spines to stick up and expand covering it’s entire body.

Key Words: Situational, Shape-Changing, Hidden As a group we found this idea quiet inspiring since it demonstrates the idea of forming a protective barrier when required. Therefore it shows that someones personal space is not always the same.

Hedgehog Spines are compresses and confines when calm.

Hedgehog Spines expand and move around the body when threatened.

Rough sketch of hedgehog spines Implementated into the cresent moon design.

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Sketch Desgin Development Taking the same defensive system as the hedgehog, the concept of the spines were implemented into the exterior concurved surface of the design.

This defence focuses on a primitive defence of “acting out� according to the theorys of Freud. In doing so, the spines serve as a deterent to all would be attackers and intruders of ones personal space.

The protuding spikes were created by cutting out one end of former mountain folds. which were then reversed.

Due to reversing the already functional comprssing panle and folds. The spikes will extrude outward once the module was in tension and fully extended.

Spikes lay flat when at rest

Stage 1:

Stage 2:

Spikes hidden when module is in compression.

Spikes become vsisble once horizontal tension is applied to the module.

Stage 3: Spikes become erected once the module is fully extended horizontally.

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2nd Skin proposed design V.1 Propalsal #1

Plan View

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Front View

Section View

Isometric View

Actions People might take

This proposal is focusing on the personal space of user’s front space especially user’s eyes ahead. That’s because Mattew get more sensitive in his front and it’s harder to use deffensive actions in front than side.

The (wrapping) denser cresent moon modules are designed to enlarge the personal boudaries instead of direct actions ( Action 1, Action 2 photos on the right), which simultaneously leave a permeable space due to their curvy shapes. Meanwhile, this model is situational, shape changing with the variation of the user’s mood. So when the user only want to have the personal space, the model is half-opened with visible spikes; while the protruding spikes show, that represents user don’t want others to talk with himand even be close to him, giving a sense of attacking. What’s more, in order to easily get the emotion transformation, denser cresent moons are pined in pairs and controlled by strings holding on hands.

for protecting personal space in front, however, this actions are unnatural to do in public

Action 1

Action 2

The head part is consisted of folded moon cresents with less spikes in a fan shape, which hides the user’s facial expression. While the holes provides the user with the opportunities of observing others.

Shapes the denser cresent moon would go

Strings that users hold Head Part

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2nd Skin proposed design V.2 Proposal #2

Plan View

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Front View

Section Viww

This proposal basically explores the side of the user’s dominant hand.

Research indicates that people usually need more space in their handedness, therefore, we build our 2nd design project on the right right arm of the mesh body because Mattew is right-handedness.

The project starts from the head continuously going to the hand. As the head is the most sensitive part so we design smaller spikes here to avoid big hole that might cause more exposure. And the variation is presented on the transition of spikes’ size, from small to large eventually go small. And elbow will hold the largest spike because it is the most aggressive part.

The characteristic of folding makes the project able to be in different shape situationally. When the user is able to communicate with others, they can just close the cresent moons to make them fully folded, representing a sense of welcoming. While the user wants to leave him alone, he can open the cresent moon and hide himself.

This is the design we decide to keep exploring.

isometric View

Mechanism & Transition of spikes

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Refined Sketch Model

Cardboard model constructed using the tessilation folding technique to create a curved shape into

Model laid flat out to reveal leaf like pattern.

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Top view of the model.

Precedent Research [1] Glow-in-the-darkness Dress

By Pankaj & Nidhi Lighting / Negative Space

[2] 3D Pleated Petal Dress

By Amaya Arzuaga Transparency / Sencond skin / Layer / Asymmetric

[2] Description of Precedent In Amaya Arzuaga’s design, she plays the transparency of material by using organza to create a sense of second skin. She utilises the organza to make pleated petals on one arm to create permeable space rather than clinging to the skin.Because of organza’s softness, hard materials are also used to act as frames to support the shape, and they are usually offset from the model’s body to enlarge the personal space.

Concept 1: The asymmetrical shape emphasise the user’s preferred side, which is same as the user’s dominant hand.

Concept 2: The transparency and the softness of this material made present the beauty of the body itself and makes the design be like second skin attaching to the user’s body.

[1] Description of Precedent The dress in the darkness is decorated with lights via installing them in the holes of small fans, which gives a fantastic effect of visualisation.Meanwhile, the cool lighting also empohasises the permeability of the dress.

Concept: The light is designed to highlight the garment’s pattern and simultaneously exists to explore the negative space of the body and to provide a great visual effect.

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Precedent applied to design & Design development Highlight body / Transparency / Layer Inspired from the precedent study, we start to think add more effects to the second skin and play the transparency of the materials.

Development 1 is to add one more internal layer under the cresent moons by using the same material of precedent - organza to let the body get less exposure and enhance the sense of second skin, which high lights the body simultaneously.

Outter Cresent Moon structure.

Internal Layer Development 2 is to wrap lights onto the internal layer and position the small bulbs right under the cresent moon, which emit lighting from the hole. Negative space under the holes are explored and fantastic visual effects like precedent 1 are produced.

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Cresent Moon Layer Internal Layer Lighting Layer

Prototype PHOTOGRAPHY SETUP -Black and White sheets for a ground base.

- White background wall and black foam board background.

-Lamp for additional light.

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Prototype

Initial idea: moon crescent

Material: paper The property of paper makes the spikes very flexible and extendable, but paper is not durable and it getting broken with time.

Second step: testing polypropylene as the material.

The quality is durable and strong. However it is too rigid and the spikes cannot expand freely.

Third step: join multiple crescents.

The crescents is big enough for cover the head.

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Prototype

Polypropylene: shoulder, the most aggressive feeling.

Paper: face. Surface with many hollows and spikes. (visual effect, threaten offenders of personal space).

Flexible, can be folded at the right shoulder.

The connection. Adjustable and fit the angle of shoulder and neck.

Create a holistic protection.

Fabric: arm. Most soft and flexible part (interior layer)

Head and right shoulder are stressed in our design.

Head: face is the most sensitive part of body, and eye contact with strangers is avoided. The hollows enable vision in front of the user.

Right arm: most people use right arm as the dominant one. Many protective gestures are made by the right arm. Equipment for the right arm can exert the best effects.

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Testing Effects Warm Light

Interal layer lit up with warm white light.

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Testing Effects: To obtain the desired effects of our design, we experimented on using different kinds of lighting effects we could achieve in the dark. In order to do this we tested out two different kinds of lights: Warm white light as well as cool white light. By doing so we would be able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each kind of light and determine which one would be best suited to explore the brief. Similiarily, through experimentation, analysis on the different choosen materials and how they react to the light was also something we had to pay consideration to. The first light we tested out was the warm lights.

Putting the cardfold over the lights. The lights demonstrated the ability to shine on the paper creating constrasting shadow and lighting effects on the flat plains. In addition the white colour of the card as well as its allowed lights behind the card to shine through and illuminate the surface with spots of warm white and yellow lights.

Placing the polypropylene panel and fold over the lights allowed the lights underneath to not only shine through the material but also dissipate and create a haze like effect. The holes in the Plastic fold, created an openning revealling the vibrant inside of the frame structure, while the spikes which have also been highlighted by the lights act as physical barrier to would be intruders.

Conclusion Through the exploration of warm white light we were able to gain an understanding of how the light reacts with the various choosen materials and unique ways we can implement the use of lighting in our design. However we also found warm light may not be the most appropriate in protecting personal space as it is by nature a more friendly tone of lighting which may intice intruders rather than dissuade.

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Testing Effects Cool Light

Internal layer lit up with cool white light

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Testing Effects

Due to the undesirable emotional effects of using warm lights, we decided to explore the usage of a cool white light. As such the same experiment was used to determine the effects and interations the white light has with the different materials.

From conducting similar tests with the white light, it was apperent to us that the cool light was far more subdued than it’s warmer counterpart. As a result the cool lighting acheived a more ominious effect for the design. which we believed would be far more effective at protecting onces personal space more so than the friendlier warm white lights.

Conclusion In comparsion to the warm white light the cool light gives off a more less friendly feeling which is far more suitable in satisfiying the requirements of the brief. Therefore as a group we preferred the use of the cool lights over the warm lights to be implemented into our prototype model.

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Testing Effects Warm and Cool Light

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Internal layer with both cool and warm white lights.

Testing Effects Our final test was to explore the usuage of both cool and warm white lights. Doing so we attempted to take advantge of the inviting qualities of the warm white with the more ominus eathetic of the more subdued white light.Through the combination of both warm asnd cool lights help to highlight and blanket the vital personal space of the user.

Experimenting with the lights on various materials created some very interesting and pretty effects through the constrast of the cold and hot as well as constrasting emotions. By putting both of the previous lights togther, the idea was to try to use the welcoming qualities of the warm lights to comfort the wearer while the cool lights served to deter outsiders.

Conclusion Through the combination of both coloured lights our aim was to see if we could combine the warm effects of comfort for the user with the cooler negative effects of the white light. However this turned out to not be the case at all as what happened was that while the combination looked pretty, there was too much collision with the to opposing styles of light. Therefore in the end we just decided to implement the cool lights into our prototype design,

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Testing Effects Light Implementation into prototype

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Appendix 3D pleated petal dress https://au.pinterest.com/pin/132926626478254018/ Glow-in-the-darkness Dress https://au.pinterest.com/pin/218143175675185710/

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