A visual journey.
An illustrated process towards a patterned system based on biomimicry, intuition, making, re-appropriation, naturalistic observation and integration. Collection of tests, experiments and practical references. September 2013- November 2013 Towards a patterned organizational structures. Joan VellvĂŠ Rafecas MA Social Design. Design Academy Eindhoven. Mentors: Aldo Bakker Rianne Makkink Liesbeth Huybrechts
Collection of tests and experiments.
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References.
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Origami.
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From my manifesto towards reintegration.
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Mediator I
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Mediator II
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Mediator III
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Mediator IV
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Seeking for embodied intuition I
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Temporal composition I
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Seeking for embodied intuition II
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Seeking for embodied intuition III
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Temporal composition II
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Temporal composition III
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Collection of tests and experiments.
r/ Theo Jansen (born 1948, Den Hague) Dutch Artist-Engineer.
r/ Lars Spuybroek (born 1959, Rotterdam) Dutch ArchitectAuthor.
r/ Dom Hans van der Laan (Leiden 1904 – Marlenis 1991) Dutch Architect -Monk.
/ References. Lars Spuybroek “A figure, a symbol, is a formal organisation of variable points, not a fixed form. Fairly simple behaviour by individual members resulting in complex and irreductible collective behaviour” Theo Jansssen “The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.” Dom Hans Van der Laan “The plastic number” Enzo Mari “ Formalism encrusts form, and overlays it with another form, changing it creating something different. The only reason to create a project is to achieve a different result.” 6
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r/ Enzo Mari (born 1932 Novara) Itialian Artist-Furniture designer. Autoprojectatione dinning table.
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Collection of tests and experiments.
r/. Origami “the crane� September 2013
/ Origami. Origami pattern practical research and visualisation. The process that was tested in this experimental visualisation deals with the use of a technique, highly patterned as origami, to experiment the learning process, development and appropriation of a concept (the crane). Furthermore taking the crane as a starting point from where to start exploring personal imagination and intuition through material and technique growing control.
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Collection of tests and experiments.
/ From manifesto towards reintegration. Hand drawings. An intuitive process of repetition, control and re-appropriation. Ink on paper.
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r/. Manifesto illustration April 2013
r/. Reintegration of the manifesto’s illustration. September-October 2013
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Collection of tests and experiments.
r/. Mediator I collection of two sets of systems. September 2013
/ Mediator I. From the wooden pin society towards a patterned organisational structral system . Video Mediator tools as temporal exoskeletons to acknowledge diverse layers of knowledge through practical experience and abstracted ideas. Being temporal is partly defined by the structural characteristics of a pattern, always nascent and decaying in a delicate self-sufficient balance. Creating designed lasting objects to tension the need of understanding for further reintegration and reappropriation through imagination and memory. 12
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r/. Mediator tool I, bottom view.
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Collection of tests and experiments.
/ Mediator II. Looking for sinergies in between the system. Video Stretching the limitations and sinergies thorugh the direct and intuitive manipulationther reintegration and for reappropriation through imagination and use. Seeking for structural knowledge and functional understanding.
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r/. Mediator II, stretching reaction tests. October 2013
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Collection of tests and experiments.
/ Mediator III. Self.production for understanding. Video In order to comprehend the system and it’s individual pieces one of them was shaped manually. Looking for a tactile and physical experience through the making, emboding tha capacities and creating the imaginary.
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r/. Mediator III, Pocket knife and pine wood. October 2013
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Collection of tests and experiments.
/ Mediator IV. A seed planting tool. Video From a organisational way of constructing and the ideal mediation in between man and nature through objects. A concept of mediator tool for seed planting, creating a starting point for patterned organisation. A tool to transmit different levels of information to the user, distances and positioning. Moreover a composed tool that through organising individualities achieve a concrete function and outcome, transmitting practical gardening knowledge and the subjacent inherent qualities of patterned flexible organisation. 18
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r/. Mediator tool IV, Seed planting tool October 2013
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Collection of tests and experiments.
/ Seeking for embodied intuition I. Emboding natural characteristics in order to retain the intrinsic values of it. Naturalistic observation for understanding. Hand drawing, acuarela.
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r/. Pencil and acuarela. Formalist study through brushstrokes. November 2013
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Collection of tests and experiments.
r/. Temporal composition I . First contextualization of a lamp. November 2013
/ Temporal composition I. A coalescent process between the making and the need. From the naturalistic observation to practical re-appropriation in a limited context. The structural organitzation of a hanging lamp. Wood, elastic rubber and lightbulb/switch.
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r/. Bottom view of Temporal composition I
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Collection of tests and experiments.
r/. Ink illustration of a bird wing. Mimicrying an image. November 2013
/ Seeking for embodied intuition II. A functional graphic research in feathers an wings, functioning and organitzational flexibility. Naturalistic observation for an analitical understanding of the structure and organitzation of wings and the qualities that allow feathers to disposition themselves in various and all functional caracterĂstics. Hand drawing, ink and acuarela.
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r/. Acuarela illustriation. A bird wing opening. Mimicrying an image. November 2013
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Collection of tests and experiments.
/ Seeking for embodied intuition III. A fast drawing process in order to familiarize mecanical moves of drawing for further rea-appropriation. Naturalistic observation seeking for emboding gestures and feelings of birds fly and movements. Fast drawing in order to achieve a intuitive rather that analitical view of the animal and its moves. Hand drawing, pencil.
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r/. Fast pencil drawings. November 2013
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Collection of tests and experiments.
r/. Temporal composition II. November 2013
/ Temporal composition II A coalescent process between the making and the need. From the naturalistic observation to practical re-appropriation. in a limited context. The structural organitzation of a table lamp and the observation of movement and flexibility. Wood, elastic rubber and stone.
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r/. Temporal composition II. Pine wood, rubber, tire, pins and granite stone.
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Collection of tests and experiments.
r/. Workspace 12 November 2013
/ Temporal composition III A structural exercice.. From the qualities that has been observed in the system to an ideal composition of a leg or structural supporting point. Wood, elastic rubber and stone.
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r/. Temporal composition III. November 2013
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