Week 9_Fabrication

Week 9 Module 3: Fabrication Svetlana Nazaruk

The design is purely based on physical weaknesess of the body and its most vulnerable parts, which I consider to be the spine, the heart and the upper shoulders. By scaring people away, frightening them, the sense of security can be achieved. In order to do so, spikes of different sizes were allocated along the spine, heart and upper shoulders area. In fabrication, black card was used to emphasize the unwillingness of the person to cope with intruders in his personal space.

PART 1: 3D MODEL

At the beginning of making of a model, the surface was created, taking into account that the spikes will need to hold onto something when fabricated. The 2D surface was manipulated into a 3D skin that would hold the design together,

Paneling grid was mapped onto a surface using comand “Surface domain number� but the outcome was not suitable for the placement of spikes and therefore surface manipulations continued.

Command “Panel planar quads� was used to create triangular surfaces that will produce excellent material for the grid. Paneling grid was created and points offset to map custom 3d model onto it.

The final design.

PART 2: MODEL FOR FABRICATION A segment of 2nd skin, a shoulder piece, was taken for fabrication at 1:1 scale.

Each individual polysurface of the segment was smashed with the settings of “no explosion” and “no label”

Both polysurfaces and smashed pieces were marked from 01 to 45 in order to make it easier to combine when cut out.

Borders were created manualy for each individual piece, as my version of Rhino does not allow grasshoper plugin to be used.

At the end, the pieces(225 of them) were labeled with different coloures for each cut settings and placed in a file so that they would fit onto a 900x600 mm card

PART 2: FABRICATION

Pieces were cut out on a card cutter and then labeled with pensil to make it easier for assembly.

Then they were folded and placed according to their number that have been marked earlier in the process.

Cutted out pieces were stapled together to hold a strong bond and prevent card from tearing apart.

When all the parts were stapled the superglue was used to seal it into one 3D surface.

For laying out of the pieces I used gaffa tape. It holds them together and allows bending and movement without falling apart.

The final prototype came out to be not quite what I wanted to achieve in my final design. I still need to work on the fact that ends of pieces do not come together as a whole and leave a big gap in between. This does not allow me to achieve the effect of sharpness of the spikes in my design. Also such little pieces take too much time to get together and therefore in my final design the size of the parts will significantly increase in order to finish the project before the submission. For the final, the surface will be cut out to get a better hold of the pieces.