‘AKARI’ lamp project

Team Members:

‘AKARI’Lamp Project

GUO Shuhan Cynthia

WANG Sijie Jerry

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Prototype Research

The design background of this project is from The Tale of Genji. It describes the love story of Genji in the Heian Period. In this period, female social status is at a low level. Although each female has a natural personality, women need to be reshaped in a male-dominated society to fit this environment.

In this project, our group used two curves to compare the Heian Period Society and Female World. One is a winding line, and another is a flexural line. We design this project to show the process of the switch of these two types of lines to show how females live in this period.

Then, we study how the simple units influence the whole project and research the unit's shape of the boundary and each size. These primary factors will influence the final shape of the project. In this way, we develop new types by folding the different series of units.

Last, we consider the ideal material for 1:1 scale pavilion construction. We use three common materials to make fundamental units and test their quality from the transmission of light, the weight of the material, the strength of the material and the toughness of material aspects.