After being out of action for a couple of weeks with illness, I've found it extremely frustrating and hard to get back onto the right track and my design work has stalled abit because of it. With the extension, it will still give me time to hopefully finish the project to level of quality I want but has not left me with a whole lot of time to develop my concepts further. I've moved on from my previous ideas and have gone with the idea of rotating a particular shape, in this case the pentagonal shape featured in the facade of the Design school. I decided to stop making sketches and trying to think 3-dimensionally in a 2d format (the cause of my problems in the last project) and realised the only way to explore my ideas to their full extent and resolve the design was to make and develop a series of maquettes. Below also is a piece of furniture designed by Marc Newson that has also provdied a source for inspiration.
My 3D thought process began by making a Lego block piece, playing with a module and repeating it to form an object.
From that i decided to use a single shape that had been inspired by the facade and that would be practical to make using the 6mm MDF available at the Workshop. The next problem after this, would be to manipulate form and use similar connections to make an upstanding side-table that features and controls light.
The maquette below is a scaled model of what will be the final version of my Interval project. It uses the pentagonal shape and dimensions developed from the facade and will be made with 6mm MDF with slit connections and no requirements for glue for the final piece. Perforations will be considered to allow light to filter through the centre of the model and disperse as it travels through the core. This is symbolic of the atrium space in the Industrial design building and have provided a platform for inspiration and design.
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