At academic level, constructing 1:1prototypes is an important facet to validate design decisions. By building prototypes of design concepts, questions about the ‘Real’ aspects of a design can be an swered concretely. Will a material be sufficiently stiff? Will a design configuration perform as expected? How it feels at actual scale? In addition, though a computer generated solid model can generate a great deal of information about a design but the information gained by physically working with materials & tools will inform Design thinking processes in a different manner. Ways of building prototypes are often thought of in terms of their production technologies, such as cutting, machining, casting, and molding, Rapid pro totyping, etc. Therefore Students learns to develop that extra skill set of planning, procuring material from market, working with machines, assembling with hands and develops an eyes of finesse in detail.
STUDIO
Look around. Every manufactured object you see – was envisioned, designed, fabricated, as sembled and transported to where it is now. Today as creators, we find ourselves amid a new paradigm shift of 4th industrial revolution - where our physical and digital worlds are completely blended together. This revolutionary transformation has also changed how we make things, who makes these things and the very nature of what we make. Technologies like 3d Printing, Lazer cutting, cnc routing has hastened the iterative prototyping processes. Therefore a new kind of Design thinking method should be employed to construe these new making processes.
The background concern of this unit is to bridge the gap between drawing board ideas and mak ing techniques; both in the way ideas can be embodied in materials and processes and in how thinking through materials and processes (in making and drawing) can tease out ideas. To find some precision in such methods, instead of working on abstract ideas; simple rules of geometric transformation as well as modulation were employed as a guide for underlying principles. These principles govern student’s decision making process at each stage of Design. The first question unit addresses is how to create a functional ele ment which not only follows the principles of geometry but also compliments techniques of materials and their limitations. The Second question unit addresses is how to evoke a seductive playful quality in the final element through human intervention and form transformation.
In this unit, each student is required to design, build and test his or her own standalone element to complete the studio. The success of a design may be considered in many ways. Functionality of Design is an obvious measure of design outcome, but how the principle is extracted from the given object of in spiration and how well it is translated into a functional system to compliment given material & production techniques. BRIEF
Material Optimization Kite Making
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) MATERIAL OPTIMIZATION BY NIDHI RADADIA Joinary materials 3mm triangular cross section Kite paper Dimension
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Structural Optimization Making a Bamboo Stool
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION BY NIDHI RADADIA Initial ideas Force Distribution diagrams 1:20 scale model
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION BY NIDHI RADADIA Process of making a part of 1:1 bamboo stool
Form Optimization
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) FORM OPTIMIZATION BY NIDHI RADADIA TRUNCATED CUBOCTAHADRON The truncated cuboctahedron is created by truncating (cutting off) the cuboctahe dron one third of the way into each side 26 total faces: 12 squares, 8 regular hexagons and 6 regular octagons 48 vertices: 1 square, 1 hexagon and 1 octagon 72 edges STANDING ON HEXAGONAL SURFACE STANDING ON SQUARE SURFACE
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) FORM OPTIMIZATION BY NIDHI RADADIA OptimumMaximum Minimum
The Journey Nidhi Radadia
INDETAIL NIDHI RADADIA COCONUT LEAF ANALYSIS
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) NIDHI RADADIA TRANSFORMATION OF MIDRIB IN THE LEAF
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) NIDHI RADADIA CONNECTION BETWEEN MIDRIB AND TRUNK SYSTEM level observation
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) NIDHI RADADIA CONNECTION BETWEEN MIDRIB AND LEAFLET MACRO level observation
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INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) MIDRIB SYSTEM level observation
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
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Detachable cantelivered stool- attached to any diameter of pole -detachable, foldaed, cantilevered. WHY AM I DESIGNING?
WHAT AM I DESIGNING?
Context- bus station, railway satation , airports, waiting room, pedestrain zone .
NIDHI RADADIA
LOGIC- COOCNUT LEAF -Cantilevered midrib and transformation in the form for flexibility, -Connection of cantellivered leaflets to midrib as a surface.
Combining both the logics of cantilevered stool with memberes joined with each other using secondary mem beres and the whole stool transforms its form, when in use.
In this busy time, with crowded steets, wherever one travel with multiple stop centers. one doesn’t find any place to rest for a while, or for 5 minutes. so this stool will provide a temporary seating surface whenever one needs while travelling.
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) NIDHI RADADIA ERGONOMIC STUDY SITTING- 40cm height 50cm height PERCHING- 60-65 cm height Final Posture
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) DEVELOPMENT PROCESS- PROCESS MODELS- scissor mechanism NIDHI RADADIA
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INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) NIDHI RADADIA STRUCTURE OF THE SEAT one part of the seat from open to colse position OPEN CLOSE
INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) NIDHI RADADIA OPENING OF SEAT Scissor mechanism center openingoff-centredmembersmembersandclosing- types of off-centered Argonomic dimensions of opening seat
NIDHI RADADIA SLIDING PIVOTE IN ELEVATION FOR FOLDING THE STOOL TO CANTILEVER OPEN CLOSE
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INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) NIDHI RADADIA PARTS OF STOOL AND MATERIAL INDICATION
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INDETAIL - MAKING IS REALIZING (LEVEL 2) NIDHI RADADIA ELEVATION
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