kayla & Rosie 2rd skin presentation 1
Redevelop and Clarify Scenario Situation
A girl in a crowded bar with her friends, and she feels stressed when strangers approach.
Target group
Female with high social anxiety
Design intents
Providing the sense of control to the users, as a result, she can decide who can approach and talk with her.
Inspiration At this stage, we are inspired by this image and the effect of mirror that can hide a person’s appearance and reflect environment or the approaching person’s face. According to Andre Pijet (2009), people tend to look at themselves in mirror due to the great interest towards themselves. By applying mirror surface onto our design, we can not only hide our users into the bar environment but also shift the approaching persons’ interest towards the user back to themselves. Photography by Camil Tulcan
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zoned areas on site
The essential area for our design is also the upper side of the body, but our bar situation confined the size within the user’s shoulders or she might hit someone in the bar. In order to give this sense of control and selection, we divided the user’s body and eyes into mainly two sides. One side is open to friends, the other side is all covered with mirror to block strangers. While a stranger is approaching from the open-up side, the user can just shift their body towards the other sides. In this way, the user can easily select who she want to talk to and expressing her rejection to stranger by her movement and the structure.
zoned areas on site
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Precedent Research Opening Chronometry - HGA Architectural Design Lab This project uses material with flexibility and folds the units to be one cone. The most exciting part is its connection. By connection two reversed direction cone together to fit in space. Each cone has three connection strip not only functioning as connection but also having structural values.
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We consider to use cone like structure to test out if it will get a better reflection pattern from reflective paper. We are quite inspired from this precedent’s connection method, which we could take into our design. By placing units into different direction, we can also get a more complex reflection pattern.
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Design Development
form of strictly following this pattern, the geometry will generally go straight with little curvature.
putting two cones into the same direction will create curvature on the model and starting to generate volume.
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Design Development + Fabrication of Prototype V.2
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Design Iterations
#1
#2
old model - lacking structural strength to sit on body
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lofting - forming base surface
generate grid on surface
offset the grid
panelling tool - place cones on the
problem - cones are warping on the
we tried meshing the surface but the
grid
short end
result stayed the same
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#3 we tried to fix the warping units by
generate grid on the sphere
offset grid
using standard geometry.
prototype testing in grasshopper
panelling tool - place bas according to the grid
#4 create panel on surface and extract
based on the points to draw circles
points
scale the circles and mo
cording to the central p
#5 extract two layers of grid on panels
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based on the points to draw circles us-
scale the circles and move t
ing two points distance as diameter
cording to the central poin
se cone on
delete some cones to create desired
problems - the form is largely follow-
problems - the two ends of the sphere
form
ing the shape of sphere and quite
is highly warped
different from the form we want.
ove them ac-
loft - cones are no longer warped but
problem - scale cones by each row,
the huge intervals are more obvious
points
intersected.
when they are no intersect, the inter-
when cones’ sizes change sharply.
them ac-
nts
vals are huge
loft - cones are no longer warped and not intersect as well
some are working
some are still getting great intervals, due to perfect straght cones’ definition only works on square grids with the same size
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Prototype Optimisation
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In this prototype, we orient 3 different sizes cones onto the surface with the strict pattern without changing cone direction to make curve.
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testing of mirror spray
polypropylene
transparent paper
Material testing
perspex
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mirror paper
transparent tape
super glue
UHU
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connection & curve forming
units with thicker paper has a rigid and straight form
flexible units with thiner paper this model is cutted out of paper with different thickness - thicker paper is harder to bend, the natural curvature is created by the units with thiner paper 16
in final model, we descide to put two units with same direction togehter to create the curve.
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2nd Skin Final Design
units
roof plan left elevation
front elevation
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right elevation
Strangers Friends
isometric 19
Fabricati
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ion Sequence
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units’ size variations
intended mirror effect 22
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2rd Skin
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