DIGITAL DESIGN + FABRICATION SM1, 2016 M2 JOURNAL - skin and bone Shengran Zheng 710821 Althea De Las Alas 760667 Teal Marshall 758512 Lyle studio 8
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Sketch Design Development Crazy ideas from the group Important aspects to be implemented into the design: - Bone structure supports skin, skin supports body, maximising comfort. -Flexible stretchy skin (elastic material). -Skin provides both support and visual screen from outside world (personal space). -None continuous skin. -Skin moves from inside to outside. -Interesting geometry. -Flowing/ curved/ delicate/ semitransparent/ sheltering‌.
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Refined Sketch Model
Refined Sketches
Models from M1 Concepts recalled from Module 1 designs: -artistic attractive bone structures that are not only structural but aesthetic. -reversal of the skin-andbone- system -supportive skin structure
Refined Rhino Model
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2nd Skin proposed design V.1
Back frame: easy, wearable Streamlined Curves Bamboo: sustainable, natural
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ELEVATION
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PLAN
Black material: soft, elastic, supportive, comfortable.
Precedent: Backframe SKETCH AND RHINO MODEL
HUMAN EXPERIENCE
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2nd Skin proposed design V.2
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FRONT
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ELEVATION
PERSPECTIVE
In the personal space map, the pink zone represent the safty zone for friends and the outter zone represent saty zone for strangers. The improvement of the sketch design is based on the personal space map. People intend to keep distance with the outside world with they are sleeping or relaxing . The safty distance in the front is larger than the back.
When people are sleeping, they tend to open their mouth, which is quite embarrassing for people to see. Instead of covering the whole face which will make people isolated from the outside, we choose to cover half of the face.
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Precedent Research
Key words:
WEAVING / TENSION / CONDENSE / VISIBILITY / INTERSECT-
Winde Riestra’s 11:11 Collection
Description of precedent
The string that parallels the “skin” component weaves in and out of the wood to be under tension.
As the string intersect and crossover each other to join to the wood, the area where they overlap become dense.
Winde Riestra’s 11:11 collection includes garments made out of a wooden frame with thread strung tightly between it. The thread weaves in and out of the wooden frame continuously, creating the appearance of a web. The thread is not parallel to each other in all areas; they sometimes converge toward a point so as to appear denser in those areas.
As more string is added, the lines can appear close enough to form the illusion of a solid plane. Lines become planes.
The string intersect between each other, and goes through the bone instead of covering it.
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Precedent applied to design WEAVING / TENSION / CONDENSE / VISIBILITY / INTERSECTING
The skin infill supports the head when it leans back.
When in tension, the “skin� component of our design can be used as a support for the head when sleeping, and also to hold the structure of the pod itself. The skin can be made to be extremely thin, becoming a discreet and almost invisible barrier between the wearer and other people.
As the skin is denser in some areas, the visibility of the wearer changes. It is less dense around the mouth area to allow ventilation for breathing. The spacing between the string gradually increases to become less dense and more transparent.
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Design development - Version #1
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ELEVATION SKETCH
Non continuous skin Different scales Varying patterns Skin moving from inside to outside
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PLAN
PERSPECTIVE
The head is protected by the structures and strings around which also create a comfortable surface to lean on when sleeping.
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Design development - Version #2 Process of Rihno Create Surface using Loft
Create 2D Grid using panneling
Create Ribs out of the grids using fin adge
The process is basically using pannelling tools to create ribs and build the frame work of the design. Connet the frame with strings to create soft and elastic surface to lean on.
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Features The asymettrical structure make the design dynamic and intersting. The frame also creates personal space when people are sleeping and gives people the feeling of safty. The strings as skin provide surface for people to lean on.
The structure covering half face of people to help people notice what happen around you when you are sleeping rather than completely isolated by the structure.
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Prototype
Using laser cutter we cut the frame and using strings to connect the holes to create the skin. Build the structure with materials cut from MDF board. Using different patterns of connecting to create the curveing surface with strings.
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Testing Effects We made many small models to test how the string works and how the strings connect together influences what kind of surface they create.
Twist the plane, we get some different effect.
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Prototype with people The prototype we made is 1:1 scale. It is the left part of the whole design. We photograph the prototype with model to show how it works on human body. The photos are also taken under different light condition to show the shadow and light effect on the prototype.
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