DDF M1 Tirteen Zheng Wu 846736

DIGITAL DESIGN + FABRICATION SM1, 2016 M1 JOURNAL - ERUPTION Tirteen Zheng Wu (846736) Siavash Malek #3

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Measured Drawings 290 mm

17 mm

148 mm

310 mm

Plan (Squeezed) Scale : 1 : 2 2

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40 mm

Measured Drawings

4.5 mm

Elevations (Squeezed) Scale : 1 : 2

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40 mm

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Measured Drawings

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40 mm

Measured Drawings

Original Sketch Plan (Full Expansion) (Not To Scale)

Height: 355 mm

Range: 1415 mm

Plan (Full Expansion) Scale : 1 : 5

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Analysis Folding Mechanism of One Unit of Rotatory System

One Panel with three holes

Two Panels with one Pin Joint

Two Panels with one Pin Joint

cannot fold itself as it is

form one unit of Rotatory System.

in rotatory transition.

made of wood.

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Expansion / Volume :

This panel & folding structure has potential to cover a large volume via expansion.

Limb-like / Reacher :

It has a function of an arm. It can reach something at distance.

Flexibility / Rotation :

Pin joints enable it to flexibly expand or squeeze. When stretched further, the structure gains more flexibility

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bend sideways. However, this might casue permanent damnage to the wood. A more flexible material such as composite silica plastics can be used to enhance flexibility while maintaining its structural strength.

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Digital Model

Lower-Layer Panels

Pin Joint

Addtion of Upper-Layer Panels

After addtion of Pin Joints South East Isometric (Squeezed)

Plan (Squeezed)

One Unit of Rotatory System Side Elevation (Squeezed)

Front Elevation (Squeezed) 8

Digital Model (Expansion)

Elevation Detail South East Isometric

Front Elevation

Plan

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Sketch Model Making a curved, volume-occupying structure using a flat piece of paper, with some techniques of folding.

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Folding a flat piece of paper into a panelised squeezable form.

Drilling holes on ice cream sticks to make expandable rotatory grids.

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Sketch Design #1 Expansion / Boldness / Defensive / Shocking / Fluffy Inspiration: Leonotis Leonurus (the Lions’ Ears)

How does this respond to your personal space?

Expansion in 360 degree, as personal space is equal in all directions in this context.

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The eight expandable fences hidden in the large plastic cover can expand simultaneously to gain the maximum volume for my personal space when I want to show signs of boldness or defense, or to cirrculate the air inside my personal space.

Numerous tiny holes distributed over the plastic cover allow fresh air to enter when the second skin expands.

Sketch Design #2 Night / Spherical / Calmness / Eruption / Angry Inspiration: Night Sky and Vocanic Eruption, Basalt Blue and Red Red laser lights mimic volcanic eruption

Many small shining light bulbs inside the triangulated paper sphere in the color of light basalt blue.

Push the limb-like structure for ‘eruption’

How does this respond to your personal space?

This second skin can express the person’s emotion from the visual experience of the personal space.

When the person in a calm mood, LED lights shine throught the transluscent basalt blue paper triangles of the sphere and some triangle holes of the triangle panels, creating an atmosphere of a sky at night.

When the person is angry, a system of limb-like structure push two red laser lights out of the sphere, like a volcanic eruption.

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Sketch Design #3 Flexible / Bouncing / Semi-Transparency / Gridshell

Inspiration: Folded paper shell and Gridshell

How does this respond to your personal space?

The paper shell can be substituted by waterproof plastic shell, so that it can protect the personal space from both the sun and rain.

The gridshell structure around the most intimate personal space serves as a protective, semi-transparent skin.

The gridshell is very flexible for rotatory movement, so the person can freely squeeze any part of the gridshell to expand or adjust the volume of personal space, depending on activities and surroundings.

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Appendix The prototype, Leonotis Leonurus (the Lions’ Ears) http://toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi?uid=Leonotis_leonurus

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