DIGITAL DESIGN + FABRICATION SM1, 2018 M2 JOURNAL - PANEL AND FOLD LIAOYU ZHOU 784143 Alison Fairley + TUT2
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Personal Space Scenario
We focus on visual invasion towards our personal space. Therefore we are designing a second skin to form as a new personal boundary visually, which intends to block out the visual invasion from outside when the wearers start to feel uncomfortable. According to Chen, Nummenmaa and Hietanen (2017), the level of discomfort derived from eye contact is mainly influenced by the level of social anxiety a person has. In this design, we are designing for these group with high level of social anxiety, who would like to have a break from others and enjoy some extend of privacy and peace in public area. According to Sommer(1969), without these eye contacts, others are more likely to be treated like objects, which decrease some stress of users.
Paper face - Hector Sos
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Comparing these paper face models, we can easy find that the mask with lots of spike-like shape will keep others away than the others masks. People would tend to stay far for the these spikes look dangerous and they tend to keep a safe distance for themselves. There mask with curvy lines are interesting and playful which makes the other want to go closer to have a look instead. In order to keep a greater distance therefore having a larger personal space from others, a more aggressive shape is needed.
Through using a more aggressive shape, we can not only have a larger personal boundary, but also help our users saying no to others. People with high social anxiety will usually unconfident to express rejections to others. Designing aggressive shape on face, we intend to provide the opportunity for them to express their needs of being alone for a period of time.
Paper face - Hector Sos
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Sketch Design Development
To fit in our personal space scenario, we developed the pointed structure of this design and relocated the design in relations to the needs of covering eye to avoid eye contacts in some circumstances. The value we have taken away from this design is its agressive structure that could scary the strangers away or at least keep others in a satisfactory distance from the user.
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The old sketch design has the aggressive structure and it concentrated on the way of folding structure can be situated on a person’s shoulder through tensions creating by circular twine. original sketch design
folding pattern
Combining my sketch design with our new personal space scenario, larger area of the face is covered to block eye contact and a new pattern of folding unit are explored to creating more spike-like shape. The folding units are two different folding units connected together which can be repeating as one module to form a surface. This pattern not only has a spiking effect, but also accommodates the curvature of body, which lead to different pointing directions of the little spikes.
Refine Sketch Design #1 In lateral design development, we will explore more about the different shapes of spike-like units and define a more specific personal space to situated our design among the body.
elevation
roof plan
elevation
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Sketch Design Development pattern
This sketch design is aim to create a sharp shelter to user that can reflect the unwelcomeness towards others. In consequences, informing other in their uncoucious state to keep a distance. shield formation
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The shield itself also extend outside the body and shoulder to work as a physical barrier.
Refine Sketch Design #2 iterations
plan
We are taking the spikes elements from the original sketch design and want to explore more possibilities of the units that performing as aggressive elements. By putting this design in rhino, we realize that small spikes and elements might not be powerful enough to express the danger we needed for scarying people away. We decided to exaggerate our basic units to reach our intents.
elevation
elevation
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2nd Skin Proposed Design V.1
A pyramid-like pattern is used in order to create a spike-like covering enhancing the sense of danger towards other people and stopping them from coming close.
Personal space required in standing and sitting position
unit pattern
After anaylising the personal space a person might requre, we discovered the space a high social anxiety person might require to feel comfortable involving the problem of eye contact. The diagram above is the personal space our intended users might required when they are standing and sitting. Therefore, the essential zone is the part in the front of the head, and we decided to develop our form from this.
The location of this design is considering the space our intended clients needed to feel satisfactory. Mainly protecting the front area of the head and covering eyes to block visual intrusion. The structures on the chest and back are helping this design to be sit on human body.
plan
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elevation
There are two states of this design, user can wear it as a hoodie in the back in their daily life. And they want to have a piece of privacy or feel stressed, they can switch the shelter into the front to cover their eyes. When the design is in used, other people would keep a distance from the user, due to they can easily read the unwelcome and danger from this simple shelter.
physically covered area clear zone created by design pedestrain zone
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not in use state
in use state
2nd Skin Proposed Design V.2
unit pattern
We explored different pyramid units patterns in the second design. By comparing these design, we realized when the basic unit have smaller unit size, the design look more delicate but it is less powerful in terms of scaring people away. However, when the pyramid units becomes larger, the design can look rough, which in a sense is meeting our intents.
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diagrams elevation
This design is also mainly focus on covering the essential area which in our scenario is in the front, and both physically and emotionally blocking others from approaching. The area around neck is not only performing as a physical barrier but also working as a supporting on our site.
ISOMATRIC
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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 Tokyo Tower Top Desk - KAZ SHIRANE
This installation is using multiple pieces of mirrors forming angles from other each to create the Kaleidoscope effect which is mixing the city views and reflecting viewers faces. Through this effect the architect generate interesting views and creating illusion of spaces.
Kaleidoscope effect Views Illusion 14
We are taking the idea of Kaleidoscope effect from this precedent. By placing our mirror pieces on angle with each other to create the shattering image from environment and human faces. Blending the user into bar environment and hide her.
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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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Physical Units Testing
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After testing all kinds of units in paper and reflective cardboard, we finally settled on having individual units instead of whole sheet of paper or curve folding. We made few units with angled surfaces from each other, and the shattered cone-like structure are performing well in terms of kaleidoscope effect.
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Design development - Version #1 strangers
friends
Corporation with the Tokyo Tower Top Desk’s angled elements and kaleidoscope effect, this design uses a basic unit that can conduction kaleidoscope effect. By repeating this unit, the user can blending in the environment on the blocking side. In this design, right side is “blocking stranger side”, and left side is “taking with friend area”.
unit pattern
front elevation
“blocking stranger side” is intended to be made out of mirror to hide user and blocking visual intrusion and “friend area” needs to be made out of translucent material letting user talking to friend but still keep a degree of privacy.
right elevation
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left elevation
roof plan
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Design development - Version #2 strangers
unit pattern
friends
Carrying the kaleidoscope effect similar to the version1 design, we use the unit that creating the best kaleidoscope illusion from our physical unit making process. Combining the great connecting technique from the opening chronometry project, we create this pattern and apply to our form. front elevation
connection
left elevation
Similar to version 1, right side is “blocking stranger side”, and left side is “taking with friend area”, but with different patterns and connection method. Adjacent cones are always one facing up and one facing down which create better complexity in terms of reflection.
right elevation
connecting points
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roof plan
Shifting the blocking side toward the approaching man, she does not need to see and talk. She is enjoying a moment of herself in this bar.
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Prototype
At this stage we use reflective cardboard to make this model, it already achieve the desired result to some extent. In the final fabrication, we are going to change material to mirror to get the best result. Different cones are connected by fishing line through its connecting point, proper connection method are needed in future stage. The connecting points are working well by now.
connection points
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Testing Effect
The angled mirror surfaces will create kaleidoscope effect, which will reflect and shatter views. Supporting by these effects, the physical barrier of face and eyes can be turned into a device that can help the user to hide when she is not willing to connect with strangers. Viewer will only see the shattered bar decoration and themselves, when the user turns the blocking side towards them. This help user to avoid eye contact, talking and stress, therefore having a sense of relief in a crowded bar.
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Appendix
Chen, Tingji. Nummenmaa, Lauri. & Hietanen, Jari K. (2017). Eye Contact Judgment Is Influenced by Perceiversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Social Anxiety But Not by Their Affective State. Front Psychol. Vol.8:373. accessed April 8, 2018. <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/ PMC5344928/>. HGA Architectural Design Lab. Opening Chronometry. accessed April 8, 2018. <http://livecomponents-ny.com/?p=215>. Kaz, Shirane. Tokyo Tower Top Desk. accessed April 8, 2018. <http://kaz-shirane.net/tokyo-tower/>. Pijet, Andre. (2009). Mirror: a psychological door to the otherness of self. Art Essays. accessed April 8, 2018. <http://pijet. com/2009/03/19/mirror-a-psychological-door-to-the-otherness-of-self/>. Sos, Hector. Paper face. accessed April 8, 2018. <http://hectorsos.net/paper-faces-3/>. Sommer, R. (1969). Personal space: the behavioral basis of design / Robert Sommer. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, c1969.
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