M2 design

DIGITAL DESIGN + FABRICATION SM1, 2015 M2 DESIGN - SECTION AND PROFILE

JIA YUN KE, HOI YIN HO

(621409, 662109) Michelle Emma James Seminar1(6)

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Sketch Design Development Combining ideas through finding key words: Invisible / Personality development / Defensive mechanism / Negative space A protection gear that can be designed to wrap around certain sensitive areas of body.

Create an illution that there are invisible features wrapping around the body instead of solid costume. Give the person a sense of protection but actually still interacting with the outside.

Sketch Model- Illusion/ Invisible/ Negative space/ Protection, Hoi Yin HO, 2015

Sketch Model - Negative space/ Connection points/ Cumulate Volume, Jia Yun KE, 2015

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Invisible spaces (Negative space) BookCover Julian Beever sidewalk art, chalk art

People are aware of their personal space because when the space in intruded by others it trigger their emotion (eg. fear, anger, shyness, love etc).

Emotions are generated from human’s brain, transfer signals to other parts of the body through nervous system. Human body then will have certain reactions accordingly such as heart beating rate increase hence the change in temperature in different body parts. This design will protect the heated parts of body (as they are being more sensitive/offended).

Human Emotion Temperature, 2014

1.We came up with a pattern that after offsetting into many pieces, will craft out the negative space of where other approaching people should be (set out a limit of getting near). On the side, the pattern followed the human body structure outline to create multi-sections in order to narrate distinctive personalities.

2.The body part will be the major protection part (grid) and also where the two parts of design join together.

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2nd Skin proposed design V.1

1. In this model, all the components are put on the left side of the body to show and effect that the panels are developed from the body and rotating.

2. The vertical parts are curved as the person’s side profile, meaning that the person is revealing his another side but at the same time protecting himself.

ISOMETRIC VIEW

FRONT VIEW 3. The horisontal parts are a series of panels embracing the human body to give the person a sense of security.

4. The whole design is showing that the person is in phase of struggle (mental contradiction) as part of him wants to unravel the personality to the others, while another part of him is stopping him.

TOP VIEW

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SIDE VIEW

2nd Skin proposed design V.2

1. The design will hide the right part of face and leave the left part open to show the person is still willing to communicate with others just that a safe and comfortable distance is kept. When looking from the side way, the panels will act like a cover (or camouflage depending on material) which hides the person.

2. By looking at ths side way, the vertical panels are taking up more spaces at the person’s back to provide bigger protection.

ISOMETRIC VIEW

FRONT VIEW

3. Comparing with model 1, the panels are more geomatrical and more pointed at corners. This gives out a sense of rigidness, security and strength.

TOP VIEW

SIDE VIEW

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Precedent Research The Drop Series (2009) by Olivia Decaris

Isolation / Privacy / Intimacy / Concentration / Encapsulation

Description of precedent In Olivia’s design, she wanted to provide a shelter that can encapsule desks or beds and enclose the area, which gives the users sense of privacy and protection. It also block users from distractions hence allowing users to be entirely focused. The structure can be lowered or raised above which allows users to adjust the level of privacy they want.

The Drop Series by Olivia Decaris, 2009

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Precedent applied to design Isolation / Privacy / Intimacy / Concentration / Enclapsulation

How can you use this precedent to influence your design ?

The precedent gave us an inspiration of how the person can react and move with the design in order to feel the emotion and effect provided (eg. wanting to hide away/ scared).

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Design development after Precedent Research After the precedent research, we decided to narrow down our design just to focus on the emotion ‘FEAR”. We then analysed the reaction of people when they feel fea/ in shock.

(1) raising shoulders

(2) covering face/head

FEAR Acording to studies, fear and anxiety are associated with increased actiity in the chest and uppter body, hence the temperature will also be higher as shown in the picture on the left. Also, all emotions are triggered from our brains and spread out throught nervous system.

With these new informations, we decided to change our design to express these kind of effects. We want to create something that can show one’s feeling when their personal space is intruded, and also provided a calming and hiding space.

Adding on our precedent study, we are also allowding the person to fully cover the upper body to provid a hugging and protecting effect. Therefore we have to measure sorts of dimensions of the upper body.

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(3) curl up to a ball/ hiding

Early models and sketches Combining all the effects we want, we came out with this kind of structure.

Continuing from our precedent study, we tried to create a cage like structure to cover the upper body.

Then we played around with the pattern around to search for diffent kinds of effect to carry on the idea of creating a negative shape of another person standing infront/ behind (The effect mentioned in proposed design v.1 & v.2).

Hoever, we found out the pattern is not clear enough, so we came out with another idea for a better use of negative space: interior and experior space. We found out that the interior the space does not have to be the same as the exterior where people see.

We also thought about designs that can make the kneeling or crotching motion be done more easily.

We also changed the neck/head component to a structure that is extanded from the back and covering parts of the face to have a ‘blanket’ effect.

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Design development outcome - Version #1 In this version, the horizontal panels are slanted upward about 30 degrees create more shadings in the upper body.

This versions stres more on the lower part of the body.

The darker area indicates the shape of the interior, and at the same time express the spreading of temperature (from warm to cold/ black to transparent) due to the emotion of fear. The warmth of the person is fading as the design is blocking others to aprroach, hence they will only feel the cold so they will not go closer.

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For the side profile, we exaggerated the exterior shape, not only allowing the person to crotch or kneel down, but also to create a stronger contrast with the interior space. In interior space is more close to the human body to provide an embracing space.

Design development outcome- Version #2 In this version, we changed the direaction of notching. The shoulders are even higher and stresses more on the upper part of the body.

In this version, the notching components in the centre part of the body is also denser to reinforce the idea of heat spreading out. together with the colour effect.

For the side profile, we kept the same idea as version #1.

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Prototype #1

This prototype is made from a series of transparent plastic notching panels. It has a rounded shape but there is trapezoid empty volume to represent a different shaped negative space (the interior).

We paint on the panels to show the shape of the interior space and the temperature spreading effect.

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Testing Effects #1

Dreams in the Monochrome, 2015

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Prototype #2

Test #1

Test #2

We decided to also test out the head component. For the physical model we tested out a spriral notching method and we came across with many difficulty so we thnk it might also be good idea to notch horizontally. When notching horizontallly, the panels can be dense without hurting the ears.

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Testing Effects #2

Test #1

With wider gaps. it has a greater transparency effect and sense of openness.

Test #2

With smaller gaps, it has an effect that you can see others but others can not see you clearly.

By adding the head component, the effect of like a blacket covering the whole body can be achieved.

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Appendix REFERENCE LIST BookCover Julian Beever sidewalk art, chalk art. www. howtodraweasy.com Dreams in the Monochrome https://www.pinterest.com/pin/134052526385390524/ Fear www.dreamatico.com www.gizmag.com www.griefrecoverykit.com Study: body mapping reveals emotions are felt in the same way across cultures www.wired.co.uk The Drop Series by Olivia Decaris http://www.dezeen.com/2009/06/29/the-drop-series-by-olivia-decaris/

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