SEMESTER 3
SONAL ROY FURNITURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Before getting started I need to say my words of gratitude. first of all i would like to thank our coordinator Mr Praveen Solanki, our mentor Mr. Ramakrishna Rao and our senoir faculty Mr. L C Ujawane for welcoming me in FID. It is a great opportunity for me. I would like to thank all the faculty members for teaching us the courses and guiding us throughout with the usefull feedbacks and unlimited supply of encouragement. next i would like to thank the workshop kakas and bhaiyas. without them it wouldn't have been possible to work at all as they taught the fundumentals of machines and materials. Now I would like to thank NID as a whole for letting us use all its resources and appreciating our work. Lastly I would like to thank my batchmates, my room mate and my amazing friends without whom life would just seem lifeless.. Thank you for making my stay in Ahmedabad worthwhile. Finally, thanks to Baba, Maa, Mick and Sagnik.
CONTENT 1
COURSES-TIMELINE
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CONSTRUCTION DRAWING AND DETAILING
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SCIENCE AND LIBERAL ARTS
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MATERIALS AND PROCESSES
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COLOURS, MATERIALS AND FORMS
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ERGONOMICS
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FURNITURE DESIGN AND CONSTUCTION
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DESIGN STUDIO
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AND THE REST
COURSES Construction drawing and detailing Science and liberal arts
Materials and processes. Colour, materials and finishes Ergonomics Furniture design and construction
Design studio
TIMELINE WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4
WEEK 6 WEEK 7 WEEK 8
WEEK 10
WEEK 12
AutoCAD drawings.
CONSTRUCTION DRAWING & DETAILING Construction drawing and detailing was the very first course of this semester. It is a skill development course. The course was a 2 week course and we had Kanjibhai as our faculty. During the course we learnt to do orthographic drawings of objects and space. In this course we also learnt digital skills where we explored softwares like AutoCAD. The course requires for maximum accuracy and maximum precision. we were given a set of assignments where we had to make the orthographic view analysing the isometric view of an object. Further we studies the dimension of a space and did the plan, elevation and section of the space. The course ended with a field trip to the Sanskar Kendra where we tried to understand basics of architecture.
Manual drafting of isometric images. All the drawings are done in the 3rd angle and are done in 1:1 scale. It requires a lot of patience and concentration to come up with a good orthographic drawing. Tools used are t-scale, set squares, compass, scale. 2H pencil is used for initial lines and finally object lines are darkened using HB pencil. For dimensions B pencil is used. Use of varying line weight and line type are notable. Hashed lines are used for hidden lines. Therse drawings follow a certain standardization.
This is the plan, elevation and section view of a room in the CMR office in1:40 scale. We learnt how to measure a space. There are set standardized measurements which are followed everywhere. In this assignment we learnt how to represent rcc slabs, walls, window and door frames and most importantly how to give dimensions.
The visionaries : Plato, Ferdinand de Saussure, Sigmund Freud, Jaques Lacan, Claude Levis Strauss (anticlockwise)
SCIENCE AND LIBERAL ARTS SLA in our 3rd semester is all about semiotics. It was a week long course and we had Mrs. Jean D'souza as our faculty. It was fun attending her lectures. We covered a varied range of topics throughout the week which will be discussed further in the chapter. The afternoon sessions were mainly movie sessions where we watched movies like amelie and possession that would be based on the day's discussion topic.
SEMIOTICS
EXISTENCE OF ART
Semiotics is the study of meaning making. It is the philosophical theory of signs and symbols. Semiotics can often be divided into three subcategories: • Semantics : relation between signs an d the things to which they refer. • Syntactics : relations between signs in formal structure. • Pragmatics : relation between signs and sign using agents.
VIEWS OF PLATO IDEA OF REALM
According to Plato, art is
Realm is the level of existance. In the the realm of good there is only one perfect form of good. According to plato, there are two realms present : • Realm of forms or ideas, containing perfect form of everything. • Material realm in which these forms or ideas are imperfectly replicated.
• UNTRUE as our world is an imitation of the perfect world that is in our mind • UNREAL • UNHEALTHY as it involves people in the unreal world which is not good for the republic. He also said that art should not exist in the ideal republic and each particular object is a reflection of the perfect form.
TO COMMUNICATE ARISTOTLE'S THOUGHTS According to Aristotle, art is
DID YOU KNOW?
• TRUE : Mimesis as it is used to explain reflection
Why do people like wtching tragedies?
• REAL : Perception as it refers to the higher reality • HEALTHY : Catharsis as it helps in releasing emotions in controlled environment. He also said that art is not history. Iit is the concept of the perfect idea.
Emotions are not allowed to be expressed in normal social life. While watching tragedies such emotions come out thus giving chance to epression. Thus, tragedies are so popular.
SAUSSURE Ferdinand de Saussure is the "father" of modern linguistics, proposed a dualistic notion of signs, relating the signifier as the form of the word or phrase uttered, to the signified as the mental concept.
PIERCE Charles Sanders Peirce a noted logician who founded [citation needed] philosophical pragmatism, defined semiosis as an irreducibly triadic process wherein something, as an object, logically determines or influences something as a sign to determine or influence something as an interpretation or interpretant, itself a sign, thus leading to further interpretants.
GENDER
STRUCTURALISM & DECONSTRUCTION Structuralism
What is GEnder ?
Saussure : "Words in a language are like men in a game of cards." For the structuralists, first is the word and then is the concept formed. Evolution of words is an arbitary argument. "Concepts are defined not positively interms of their content, but negatively by content with other items in the same system. "
Roles dependent on the biological structure.
Deconstruction It looks for slippage in the text to note duplicity, or to expose how a text has violated the very linguistic and thematic rules it has set up internally. It deals with infinite comparisons.
Roles based on the difference between cultures & communities and over time. Gender is always thought about in binary terms, man-woman masculine-feminine. The role played by a person and the role given by a community. Forces that construct gender roles embed man and woman in a relationship of subordinance and dominance. Simone de Beauvoir : "One is not born a woman but becomes one."
STUDIES
MYTHOLOGY
Feminism :
Claude Levi Strauss :
Feminism is not only about women but also men being corrected.
Myths usually express the form of binary opposition. It is just not a fantasy but it unconciously reflect the values and the beliefs of a culture. These are stories created by a culture and influenced by time.
History of feminism : Feminist movement - The new woman Suffragettes movement - 20th century This movement spread across the idea of feminism. Radical feminism - 1970 The second wave of feminism. The beginning of dominance starts from a woman. The fighting was against the system and not against the men. Study of masculinity - 1980
Roland Barthes : Myth is a type of speech, a system of communication and a mode of signification. There are no "substancial" limits to a myth.
PSYCHOANALYSIS Psychoanalysis in history : 1890 : Sigmund Freud. His book 'Studies on Hysteria' coauthored with his mentor Josef Breuer marked the birth of psychoanalysis. 1900-1940 : Sigmund Frued summerised the ideas of superego, ego and id. 1950 : Jaques Lacan "The most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud".
The theory of : ID - Inate desire, instinct or reflex. The personality of a newborn child is all id and only later does it develop into ego and superego. It does not follow any reason. Ego - Part of the id modified by the direct influence of the external world. It develops in order to mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world. It works by reasons. It works according to the reality principle, compromising or postponing immediate satisfaction. ego is developed at the age of six months and often it is regarded as the weaker part of oneself. Superego - It incorporates the morals and values of the society. It is developed at the age of 5 or 6 years. It controls the urges of sex and agression. The child learns control the id. the superego persuades the ego to turn into moralistic values. it is learnt from ones parents or the society. The superego has two systems - the conscience and the ideal self. Psychological development of a child : • 0-6 months : No idea of itself as a seperate being, it learns territorialization, there is no feeling of pleasure or unpleasure. Idea of the Real. • 6-18 months : The "Mirror" stage. Primary recognition of oneself as "I". • 1.5-4 years : The aquisition of language. Seperation from the Real.
FINAL ASSIGNMENT The self Do we come to this earth keeping in mind the idea of the self? Well no. That is not the case. The idea of recognising oneself as a separate identity take time. It takes about 6 months for the primary development of “I” in a child. Till then for the baby there is no existence of this self. But once the child recognises its own self, it continues to tag along. The idea of one’s self do not leave. But who gives this idea of “I”? “You”. Without the existence of “You” there is no “I”. But do we actually remember this small fact in our day to day life?! I guess not. As Lacan mentioned we love for ourselves. Love doesn’t come because we “love” someone but it’s because we lack what “you” has to offer. And in the meantime do we become somewhat selfish? Always thinking about my own self, my own idea, my own perspective… irrespective of what “you” might have had to say? I don’t say it is a crime to think about one’s self. But we should try to listen sometimes too. Without the “you” there is no existence of “I”. Therefore, we must respect that and try to be there “You” and make them realise too that they exist in the world. Their ideas and perspective matter. Thus we might just create a nice balance….
Moments from the field trip. Above : Arbot Vittum Left : Signature Laminates
MATERIALS AND PROCESSES The next course that we had in line was materials and proccesses. It was 3 weeks course and each week assigned for a particular material. We had Mr. L C Ujawane and Mr. J A Panchal as our faculty. Mr. Ujawane taught us about wood and its properties while JAP dealt with metal and plastics. Through the course we got to learn about a varied range of materials available in the market. It exposed us to a whole new level of opportunities and possibilities. It was really great to work and learn from the knowledge banks. Their years of expertise and experience guided us throughout the course. And who can forget those amazing field trips!!
LIVELY-WOOD Topics discussed : • • • • • • • • •
Properties of wood Cell structure Timber making Processing of timber Types of hard wood Types of soft wood Various types of woodbased boards Adhesives Wood finishes
Field visit : •
Jamalpur wood market.
Final assignment : •
Hand written notes on the topics discussed..
This part of the course was taken by Mr. L M Ujawane. During this week we learnt about the basics about the most used material wood. A tree's life doesn't end once it is cut down. It still lives on in forms of art and furnitures. Before working with wood, it is very essential to know about wood. Without knowing the properties it is not easy to analyse how we are going to incorporate it in our furniture. Apart from learning the properties, it is also essential to know about the possible processes. Further in the week we learnt about various wood based boards which are being used widely in the market and we also learnt about various adhesives available for various purposes. A furniture is not complete unless its finishing is done properly. Therefore it is necessery to know about various finishing properties. Through the course we tried to explore such possibilities.
METAL HEADS After a week of wood, the next week was all about metal. We had Mr. J A Panchal as our faculty. Here i got to know that even metals have grain pattern. During the week we got to learn about various metal processes and where to implement such processes. Each process is unique and has a character of its own and not all processes are possible for every sort of metal. Therefore it is very essential for a furniture designer to know about such processes andd the outcomes as it may make or break your product. During this week we went for a field trip to th Signature Laminate Industy and Arbot Vittum which we found out to be JAP's workplace. It was a great experience watching the live demonstrations of the discussed processes.
Topics discussed : • • • • •
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Origin of metal Ores Purification of ores and metal extraction Physical and chemical properties of various metal. Various metal processes like FORGING, SANDCASTING, DIE-CASTING, ROLLING, etc. Production and sizing of metal in the market.
Field visit : • •
Signature Laminates Industry Arbot Vittum
Final assignment : • •
Presentation on one chosen process - die casting. Presentation on one metal - lead.
PLASTIC FOREVER Topics discussed : • •
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Fractional distillation and production of plastic Types of plastic - THERMOPLAST, THERMOSET, ELASTOMERS Basic prosseses like EXTRUSION, INJECTION MOULDING, VACUUM FORMING, etc.
Final assignment : • •
Presentation on the chosen material - ABS Presentation on the chosen process - Profile Extrusion.
The course on plastic was also taught by Mr. J A Panchal. Personally i had never worked with plastic. So, I was really excited when we were shown various samples of different types of plastics. We further discussed on the variety of processes that are done on plastics and also explores its properties. Finally we were given a demonstration of injection mouldin in our workshop and we finally explores the material polystyrene. In the workshop JAP showed us how to make our own cutter out of a hacksaw blade. He even taught us the little secrets of working with polystyrene like dipping polystyrene in water and then sanding to get a smooth finish as it softens the grains and using polystyrene-chloroform paste to fill up gaps.
Material exploration. I tried to make a book holder using polystyrene. this piece is holding my books quite efficiently..
A postcard made on Shruti. The second assignment.
COLOUR, MATERIALS AND FINSHES Yes we are halfway there! The fourth course of the semester - colour, materials and finishes. It was a week long course. Andrea Noronha was our faculty. It was great fun working with her. The course reminded me of the course called space, form and structure that we had attended in our foundation year. The course mainly deals with the idea of creating character using the elements of colour, form and material. Throughout the course we were given fun assignments. The course made us think how colour, material and form can influence one's experience. For the assignments we got explore a lot of materials and our batchmates to as we had to develop a finish based on one of our batchmates character.I found this course very enlighting and Andrea is a lovely person to work with.
After doing the warmup assignment on senses, each one of us were given a word and we had to find objects the repressent that word. I got the word sleek. We were asked to choose seven final objects and identify the character of each of those objects. In the next stage we were asked to analyse those characters and come up eith a colour swatch. Thus our samples were made. While doing this excercise i realised how words, forms, colour and texture are inter related. Again they do exhibit their independent traits. Twiking a minute detail can change the whole experience. In this assignment i also learnt how to study the character of an object. The feel, look, colour and form gives an unique character to an object.
Attributes : (L) Festive, Energetic (C) Calm, Soothing (R) Adaptive, Manipulative
Samples of finishes based on the character study of shruti bumb. Materials are used keeping her warm, caring nature in mind. The colour palette is kept quit bright to depict her vibrant character and her happy, jovial self.
In the second assignment we had to study the characteristics of one of our batchmates and design a colour palette and a postcard based on the study. In the third and the final assignment we had to develop finishes based the characteristics. Here is the final sample that I made based on the character of Shruti. After exploring various materials I decided to go with felt and wool. Both the materials are soft and cozy. The colours are kept very vibrant, echoing Shruti's vibrant free spirit. The weave is kept quite simple keeping in mind her simple yet caring self.
ERGONOMICS The next course was ergonomics. Sounds very technical right! Before attending this course i had a very vague idea about this term. But thanks to our faculty Dr. Subir Das who made the idea pretty clear in two weeks. In this course we learnt a lot of scientific terms. A lot of research and study was done through out the course. We learnt about human proportions, postures and how to make our designs with correct ergonomics. We worked as groups as well as individually. The assignments were designed to make us understand the basics of ergonomics so that we could design a better product in future keeping the principles in mind.
UNDERTANDING THE BASICS AND ERGONOMICS ERGONOMICS Human factors and ergonomics (HF&E), also known as comfort design, functional design, and userfriendly systems, is the practice of designing products, systems or processes to take proper account of the interaction between them and the people that use them.
SUBJECTS
BRANCHES
BIOMECHANICS
PHYSICAL ERGONOMICS (PHYSIOLOGICAL)
PHYSIOLOGY
ORGANIZATIONAL ERGONOMICS
PSYCHOLOGY
COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS (PSYCHOLOGICAL)
D PRINCIPLES OF ERGONOMICS PRINCIPLES
WORK IN NEUTRAL POSTURE REDUCE EXCESSIVE FORCE KEEP EVERYTHING IN EASY REACH
NEUTRAL POSTURE: The posture when the joints are not bent and the spine is aligned and not twisted. In neutral posture maximum force can be applied.
WORK AT PROPER HEIGHTS AVOID REPITITIVE MOTIVE MINIMIZE FATIGUE AND STATIC LOAD MINIMIZE PRESSURE POINTS PROVIDE CLEARENCE MOVE, EXCERCISE & STRECH MAINTAIN A COMFORTABLE ENVIRONMENT
STATIC LOAD : The weight of a single stationary body or the combined weights of all stationary bodies in a structure.
ANTHROPOMETRY
BODY SOMATOTYPES ECTOMORPH 1:1:7
MESOMORPH 1:7:1
ENDOMORPH 7:1:1
refers to the measurement of the human individual. An early tool of physical anthropology, it has been used for identification, for the purposes of understanding human physical variation, in paleoanthropology and in various attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits. POSTURE AND ITS IMPORTANCE Posture is the position or bearing of the body whether characteristic or assumed for a special purpose. NEUTRAL POSTURE is the most comfortable posture as it promotes - balanced muscle - reduced physical demands - relieving physical stress Energy consumption in different postures : • Sitting - 3-5% • Standing - 8-10% • Stooping - 50-60% • Kneeling - 30-40%
7 STEPS TO APPLY ANTHROPOMETRIC DATA • Identifying important dimensions Dimensions of body parts that are directly in contact with the product. • Identifying user population. • Determine principles. • Select the range to accomodate. • Find the relevant data from the Anthropometric data table. • Make specific modifications. • Test critical dimensions with a mockup, user testing or a virtual model.
WORKSPACE STUDY For the final assignment, we were asked to the the ergonomic analysis of a particular space. We chose the Knowledge Management Centre Circulation desk. Methodology followed for the analysis : Study of existing space - number, shapes and sizes of each of the elemants present in the space. Identify the users and studying their characteristics. Questionaire study for collecting information from the users of the space. Activity analysis. Movement analysis of the users. Flow analysis of products. User-elemnt link analysis - Physical, visual and auditory. Analysing work environment. Development of preliminnary concept. Fabrication of mock-up model for testing. Finalising concept.
Trapezoid chair - the final chair..
FURNITURE CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN The sixth course of the semester. It was a two weeks long course. We had Mr. Sameer Bhatt as our faculty. We started with understanding the existing furnitures where we had to work in a group of two and strudy a studio chair. As we moved on we started developing our own design which was then prototyped as a 1:5 scale down model. The course made us understand the fundumentals of developing a design, starting with the development of a brief. We learnt how to analyse a furniture from various aspect. We learnt that form and function go hand in hand. Further during the course i did a brief study about Nakashima furniture. His designs and simple form inspired me and taking this inspiration further my final chair prototype was made.
CHAIR STUDY In this assignment we had to select a chair and do an indepth study of the chair. This was supposed to be a group work. So, Rohan and I chose to work on George Nakashima's Grass Seated Chair. We started with the basic measurements of the chair followed by a full-scale orthographic drawing of the chair. For this the measurements need to be very accurate and each and every measurement of every singel component is crucial. I feel this assignment taught me how to take correct measurements. Then we analysed the components and joinery of the chair. The joinery used in this chair were all hidden so, it took us a while to figure things out. Finally a study was done on the material and the finishing.
NAKASHIMA FURNITURE - A BRIEF STUDY After studying George Nakashima's grass seated chair I was really inspired. I loved hoe simple and clean the forms were. Sameer told me to think about the designer's understanding and about his inspirations. I was quite interested. He told me about the simplisity of the Shaker's Furniture and how it might influence George Nakashima to create such beautiful and simple forms.
Ancient Chinese Furniture
Shaker's Furniture
At this moment I came across a book by Judith Miller which talks about the history of furniture. It shows the evolution of furniture, from the ancient egyptian times to the present day. In one of its chapters she mentions about ancient chinese furniture of the Ming dynasty. The use of traditional joineries, clean simple forms and turned wood has a clear ressemblance to the techniques used by George Nakashima. Further I read the book called the Soul of a Tree by George Nakashima where he talks about these fine details of chinese joinery. From all this I could assume how a designer mi think. The whole study helped me understand the design process and finaly helped me to form my brief and finally design my first studio chair.
Known as the wood worker George Nakashima was born in Spokane, Washington in 1905 and grew up in the forests of the Olympic Peninsula. He received a Bachelor's Degree in architecture at the University of Washington and a Master's from MIT in 1930, as well as the Prix Fontainebleau from L'Ecole Americaine des Beaux Arts in France in 1928. After spending some time in Paris, he travelled around the world and secured a job at the Antonin Raymond office in Tokyo which sent him to Pondicherry, India, where he was the onsite architect for the first reinforced concrete building in that country and became one of the first disciples of Sri Aurobindo.
STUDIO CHAIR DESIGNING BRIEF : Design a work chair for the studio that includes the understanding of Ergonomics, wood as a material and hidden joineries. The main material should be wood. The chair should be minimalistic with minimum number of components possible and it should be easily assembled.
In this assignment we had to design a studio work chair. We started with the brief. The previous study helped me a lot during the development of the brief. I had Nakashima grass seated chair as one of my inspiration. And I kept the form very simple and pure. I really like geometric forms and in my chair presence of trapezium is predominant. It had taken a bit of time to arrive to the final form of the chair which looks like a truncated prism. But with constant form exploration a lot of possibilities came up. It was very important to keep all the learnings of material, finishes and ergonomics in mind. In this course all the previous learning seemed to come togather. This assignment helped me understand the concept of design process. And once the design was finalised, it was up for prototyping.
Prototyping of a product is that phase of design process where we can acually see if a design is workable or not. In the next part of the assignment we were asked to make a 1:5 scale down model of our chair.
I used teak wood and chill pine for making the prototype of my chair. And at this time I explored various machines in the workshop. Making such small models can be quite challenging. I got my fingers sanded in the sander thrice! But anyways its fun to work in the workshop.
A hair accessory cart
DESIGN STUDIO Finally we are here! the last course of the semester. Design studio was a six week long course. This time we had Mr. Sameer Bhatt again as our faculty. In this course we worked with an external client, ms. Rocia and it was a live project. Rocia, an architect from Spain, had been working with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation for almost 4 years for the development of Bhadra Plaza in Ahmedabad. They are working for the relocation of hawkers in the Bhadra plaza. So, she came to us with a project where we were asked to design a mobile cart for the hawkers keeping their needs in mind. The assignment was a very intense one and we were devided into groups to work on various cart typologies. My group took up accessory carts and I personally worked on hair accessory carts. In these six weeks I believe everybody went through a transformation. The immense amount of knowledge that we
OVERVIEW On the first day of the assignment we had a meeting with Rocia. She presentaed to us all the study that has been done on Bhadra Plaza. According to the current study the Bhadra Plaza area is too chaotic and the historical monuments present there i.e. the Bhadra Fort and the Teen Darwaza, are loosing its importance. The cluttered movement paatern adds to all the chaos. Therefore, its an initiative taken by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to relocate the hawkers for betterment. For this, they required us to design a cart that should be movable so that the hawkers can come in the morning & leave by night, leaving the plaza empty for cleaning activity early in the morning by the AMC.
BRIEF FOR BHADRA PLAZA AS BAZAAR / MARKET PLACE : To accommodate and propose vending areas for the permanent as well as temporary vendors for Clothes, Shoes, Accessories, Handbags, Food and Drink between the Bhadra Fort and Teen Darwaja Area. NUMBER OF HAWKERS OR VENDORS • EXISTING – number varying from 1200 to 2000 for the entire area • REQUIREMENT AS PER THE CLIENT – 700 • PROPOSAL BY THE ARCHITECT - IDEAL – 600 • MINIMUM – 400 • MAXIMUM - 700 DISMANTLING AND ASSEMBLING OF STALLS : The process of assembling and dismantling of the stalls takes about 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening. All the stalls and goods are transported to and from the place where they are setup twice a day- in the morning from 8 t0 10 am and in the evening from 8 to 10 pm
Site visits to the Bhadra Plaza with Rocia and Sameer. It helped me analyze the space while we observed hawker's activities to have a clear idea about their needs & the issues present in the current situation.
Display system of the hair accessory is quite noticeable. Various carts were studied, along with the full data of the number of products displayed & stored.
ANALYSIS The whole analysis of the project took place in stages. Each stage revealed new informations and finally the final cart brief was formulated. Space study : It all started with studying the available space. the present and the proposed layouts were studied and dimensions were noted. Cart study : Next stage was studying the existing carts. Measurements, materials used in manufacturing, construction, everything was noted down. Display pattern and storage space was also studied. Identifying problem areas : After all the study and surveys problem ares were identified for each cart typologies. Setting common considerations : Though each of us were working on a different cart typology, we were working on one single project. So, certain common considerations were set in terms of space dimension which was already given by the client, material choise, signs and logos, colour scheme, etc. Final brief : This was the final stage where we finally formulated our final individual brief keeping all the analysis and considerations in mind.
BRIEF : Design a mobile cart on wheels for the accessory shops (like watches, hair accessories and bangles) of the Bhadra Plaza. The cart should be simplistic in form, fitting nicely in the given space of 175X125 cm and should incorporate a display system and integrated storage and a seating for the seller. The cart should incorporate a roofing system also. There should be a visual harmony in the cart design and the space as a whole. the design should explore the cuboidal space provided and should use simple cuboidal forms.
CONCEPTS Once the brief was developed work started on conceptualising the design. I looked up for inspirations and a inspiration mood board was created. Explorations were done regarding the form once the base structure was finalised. Once the final design was ready material and other design specifications were clarified. It followed by the AutoCAD drawing in 1:1 scale. Finally a prototype was made in 1:10 scale to understand the structure.
Initial Explorations
Final Drawings
AND THE REST... My third semester in NID was quite a happening one. The courses taught me a lot but so did the life in NID. Who thinks of the scorching summer heat when their is MF fever raging throughout the campus! And when monsoon actually arrives, we have culturals to take care of. After attending fantastic workshops and Baatein sessions we would still go for the movie screenings in the "Audi" no matter how much tired we were. And if you think its enough, wait for the lovely displays by the students. No matter how much sleepy you feel you would still drag your feets to the aquarium and satisfy your mind. No, still not over. Various cultural festival like Ganesh Chaturthi, Onam are also celebrated with the same amount of enthusiasm. And then the grand Garba nights where you actually forget that you are having an injured ankle
to take care of. The only thing that is in mind is MSU or 14. Eight days of intense work with nights of pure joy. That's how we work here in NID. Nah still not done. The no-mess nights. From posh resturants to road side stalls of delicious Ahmedabadi food, we leave none. Sometimes mess nights also become no-mess nights. And if you fail to have dinner do not worry, Pratap is always there to feed you in the night mess. With an awesomely crazy room mate and amazingly weird friends I did lead a happy life this semester and wish to live somewhat happily for the rest of the two and a half semesters.
MONSOON FIESTA 2014. And again Industrial Design wins. Fantasy would never die.
NID cultutrals 2014. The Eames plaza filled with all the colours and cultures of India. That's how we celebrate our culrural diversity in NID.
NID GARBA 2014
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