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M1 - IDEATIONMeasured drawings

Elevation

Scale 1: 4

Plan

Scale 1: 4

Section

Scale 1: 4

My material system is section and profiling. The reason why I choose this was because during the lectures, Paul gave us quite a lot of example of this material system and I found them interesting. At first, I am not really sure how to measure my object and draw it, since the drawing should be on scale. The first way that come to my head is to photograph the lantern and copy the images with tracing paper. Then, I realised, with just that I cannot really get the exact measurement. After that, I am thinking about using photocopier. But again, it is quite impossible since my object has volume, it would be hard to photocopy it. Anoth-er way to measure an object is to divide the object into some parts; this is not going to work with my object as well. So in the end, using the ruler, I measure the diameter and radius of the lantern. Then, I take a picture of the lantern and using rhino to make the picture on scale.

It was actually work! So, I print the picture and trace it with tracing pa-per. And for the final result, I got the picture with scale 1: 2 to make it fit to A4 paper. All the elevation, plan and section was drawn by us-ing the same method. However in this journal, I made it into scale of 1:4. At first, all the drawings that I made were all shaded as shown from the elevation drawing. Then, after I attended my second tutorial and met my tutor, I got feedback that a measuring drawing should be just line and no shadings. So, I re-drew everything as shown from the drawings of plan and section. Honestly, I found the section part is quite tricky at first because I am not really sure how to draw it. Then I decid-ed to cut the lantern into half and open it. And the result is quite in-teresting shape of the lantern. I found the readings of ‘How to layout a croissant’/Miralles not really useful in helping me drawing my object.

M1 - IDEATIONModel Making - closed

I think this model kind of explain the under-standing of volume with the material sys-tem of section and profiling. I was inspired by how layers of the same shape showing the example of this material system. I try to make the half circle forming layers (if you see from the top). The volume itself came by the shape of cylinder alike as you can see from the picture above. Also, as you can see from pictures on the left hand side, I do some trial from this model. The purpose is to see whether it can actually form an interesting shape as an inspiration to continue the next step of this project.

M1 - IDEATIONModel Making- open

I think this open situation of the model does not really showing the material system of section and profiling. But again, I think this is useful for getting me inspiration to do the next step of this project (to design second skin that describe my personal space).After I did my presentation, I realised that I did not understand my material system of section and profiling. This has a mixture of skin and bone because of the additional material (stick) that I used.

M1 - IDEATIONSketches

Fig. 1.1 & 1.2 - IDEA 1

Fig. 1.3 & 1.4 - IDEA 2

Figure 1.1 and 1.2 illustrate my first idea of personal space. It was inspired by the physical model that I made. I de-cided that I wiill use the idea of repetition to show the ma-terial system of section and profiling. Then, I want to use the idea of glow in the dark. This is based on the reading Personal Spaces/Sommer, that the idea of second skin is to give a sense of territory. It was also Inspired by na-ture which is fish that can emits their own light. So, the in-tention of this idea was, if you are feeling to socialise or interact with people, you will emit your own light, so that people notice you. In contrast if you feel like hiding, or not in the mood to talk to people, you just turn off the light.

Figure 1.3 and 1.4 show my second idea of personal space. This one were inspired by two things: bee and ribs structure. Again, after I did the read-ing of Personal Space/Sommer, I noticed that second skin could also give you a sense of protection. For example this bone structure, it was meant to protect your inner organ such as lungs and heart. My idea was for the second skin to protect your body from your outer environment. So, peo-ple will not be able to easily touch you because the second skin represent the bone that is really strong and rigid. In addition to that, I also inspired by bee stringer. The idea was because we have limited eye-sight, we can-not look behind and sometimes this could make you feeling unsafe or scared. So, it will make you aware, if someone get close to you from behind.

M1 - IDEATIONSketches

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Fig. 1.5 CocoonFigure 1.5 is a picture of coccon as the inspiration of my third idea. When I was in library, doing my work, I real-ised that when people next to me, or around me do some-thing really noisy, or talk really loud when I need to con-centrate on something, I will get pissed off easily. The idea is whenever I need a space, a quite area just for myself, I can use the cocoon and get the private space that I want.Unfortunately, from the feedback that I got, neither of these were correctly represent the material system of section and profiling. I found it really hard to actually think about something that could represent personal space and sec-tion profiling at the same time. But at least, from this first module, I got the sense of what is personal space which could help me to work on the next step of the project.

Rhino Model of lantern

At first, I had no idea how to make the rhino model of my object. So, I attended the technical session and asked for help. The pictures on the left hand side, is the result. However, again after got my feed-back, this is not the correct way to make the rhino model because I use panelling tool to made this. The correct way to made it, was to draw four to five section of the lantern, scan them and put it to-gether in rhino to form the lantern.But, the technical sessions were real-ly useful to get me familiar with rhino as I never use Rhino software before. Scale 1:4

Scale 1:4

M2 - DESIGNDesign Precedents

For the second module project, I was with Mitchell and Daniel. Both of them did panel and fold as their material system from the first mod-ule and so we decided that it would be better if we just do panel and fold. At the beginning, we get our inspiration to define the personal space from snail. The idea is that the snail house is the personal space of the snail itself. Snail carries it everywhere, and whenever it feels in danger, it will hide itself in it. We get inspired by that, as we determined sec-ond skin as a tool to show that “this is my territory”. We also think about the idea of second skin that is portable and can be customize according to the situation. Because, we think, sometimes per-sonal space according to our mood, in which sometimes we want to in-

Source : all pictures from google

M2 - DESIGNDesign Precedents

Source : google

Source : google

Then we do further research to get some inspiration. We found out that there are quite a lot of interesting existing ideas. Then we came out with the first idea of as shown in figure 2.1. It is kind of spiky things to represent protection of the back where people worried the most because they can’t really see or most unaware of what’s behind the back. As mentioned in the pre-vious pages, the idea of personal space as a sense of protection was mentioned in the reading from Sommer. Why spiky? It was because I think this shape , if there are many of them, will show a kind of ‘threat’ or scary feelings to the person who sees it.

Fig. 2.1 - Sketch

M2 - DESIGNTrials

Fig. 2.2 - Paper prototyping Fig. 2.4 - Paper prototypingFig. 2.3 - Volume trial

This are some trials that we did during tutorial class. At that time, we were asked to create something with all the materials that our tu-tor prepared. Because we do panel and fold we just play around with paper. I suggested that it might be interesting if we just use one shape - circle. It turned out that after several trials. It created quite interesting and different kind of shapes depending on how you at-tached the circles together. Also, as you can see in Figure 2.2, if we stack all the circles together, we could get a pointed shape ( which is like spiky form) that we wanted from the beginning of our ideas.

Then, after that, our tutor want us to start think about volume. How these circles can be shaped together and form the second skin. This time, we use manequin and plasticine to start thinking about how it going to be placed around our body. This is shown in Figure 2.3. As you can see, our first idea was that the thing will cover the body, specifically neck and waist. Neck because it was sensitive area. Finally, our last exercise was we have to start thinking about movement. But, since we use paper as the material, and paper is really flexible, movement would not be a prob-lem for us. Besides, our original idea is to made “portable second skin”.

M2 - DESIGNDesign 1

Before our final presentation in module 2, we have two quite strong different ideas. Here is the result of our first idea in rhino. As mentioned before, the first idea still describe the second skin as a protector. It protects your back because you have limited sight to whatever behind your back. However, the small parts of the folded paper should have covering the body. It was so hard to made the shape looks bend so we just leave it there. But overall, it represents our idea clearly. The spiky things behind our back that warn people to not get too close and make the person who wear it aware. Figure 2.4 shows the small parts that made up the whole parts in figure 2.5 and 2.6.

Fig. 2.4 - Small parts

Fig. 2.5 & 2.6 - Rhino model ( Forrester 2013)

M2 - DESIGNDesign 2

Fig. 2.8 paper prototyping Fig. 2.9 paper prototyping Fig. 2.10 paper prototyping

Fig. 2.11 paper prototyping

The second idea was inspired by the snail shell. We planned to make a mobile shell that provide per-sonal space for the users as well as protection. Figure 2.7 shows the initial idea, how the shell will cover the whole upper body. Figure 2.8 and 2.9 show the initial prototyp-ing using recycled paper. Then af-ter we got the feedback in week 5, we decided that we will further developed this idea instead of the previous one. Figure 2.10 and 2.11 show the final prototype in module 2. We were satisfied with the proto-types and we did not face any dif-ficulties during the making process.

Fig. 2.7 - sketchCredit : photos taken by Mitchell

M2 - DESIGNDesign 2

From the beginning, we just want to keep everything simple because the shell itself is already complicated. Our idea is just a portable shell that you can carry around and you can just open it when you are not using it. The pictures above show our design idea in rhino model. The prob-lem with this idea is we do not really know how we are going to open the shell. Our prototype clearly showing that if we continue sticking the folded circles, it will eventually forming a sphere. But the question is how strong and whether the shell could be a rigid sphere or it will be floppy. So, our tutors begin to suggest maybe it could be interesting if we com-bine the shell with inflatable. So that it could also provide movement.

M2 - DESIGNe-learning and reflection

Source : googleFig. 2.13 UK Pavillion

Fig. 2.12 - Rolling Bridge

I think Thomas Heatherwick is a very inspirational and creative designer. HIs work are real-ly unique and amazing. From the e-learning, the UK pavillion, I think it was really cool, since he said that he had limited budget to designed something that important. The most important part of the UK pavillion is how it is not rigid but actually could also manipulate light and move-ment. What I got is that it is important for a design to be interacting or changing following the surrounding environment. For example, when it is windy or sunny. The other thing is how he also designed the places so that people could actually use the place to play, socialise, meet other people. The other design that amazed me is the rolling bridge by the same artist. Heatherwick said how he (or other people) think that a bridge is so boring. But we would changed our mide of course if we see that the bridge could actually folded my itself. From this designs, I conclud-ed that a design should be flexible and therefore, it would made itself much more interesting.

My reflection for this module would be that pro-totyping is always the hardest part and we sometimes might face a lot of failures and dif-ficulties. Maybe because we were too confident here, as we did not find any difficulties in making the prototypes, we look down on testing differ-ent kind of materials and papers and it results in we face a lot of problem in the next module. Also, from the feedback that the tutors give, we were expected to introduce a new material sys-tem which is inflatable to our mobile shell idea.

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M3 - FABRICATIONFurther research

Fig. 3.1 - Scorpion fish ( No Name,2013)

Fig. 3.2 - Carnival Costume ( Jasmine 2012)

Fig. 3.3 - Mimosa Pudica, closed condi-tion (Quiles 2009)

Fig. 3.4 - Mimosa Pudica, open condi-tion (Vincentz 2008)

After we got feedback from our tutors, we wanted to further developed our idea, not just with the shape of sphere. So, then we started to take a look for other possibilities that might give us some idea on how we want to develop our second skin. Our first inspiration is from the Scorpion fish, it is really interesting how it protects itself from dangers by its spines. We think that this might be an interesting idea as this is also describe the idea of second skin as protection. At this time this does not relate to the snail house which does not only function as protector but also pro-vide its own personal space. As shown in Figure 3.2, this is the costume with material system panel and fold that represent the similar idea to Scorpion Fish.

The next inspiration taken from the plant ‘Mi-mosa Pudica’ or also called Sensitive plant. This plant will closed it leaves if it is touch or shaken. We come out we an idea, instead of closing off whenever feel threaten, the shell will pop out whenever the users feel in danger or whenever needed. We are thinking of a shell that will giving direct re-action when the interaction happening and it is needed. But again, the group still thinking on how this idea could be applied with the material system of panel and fold.

M3 - FABRICATIONInflatable prototypes

At first, we have no idea how we are going to in-coperate two different material system together. Be-cause we have panel and fold which is identic to the use of paper and inflatable which is more to rubber and plastic. So first, we do some trial with paper. Our first intention is that maybe could just combine the two material system together. As shown in Figure 3.4 and 3.5, we first try to make inflatable using paper. As illustrates in Figure 3.7, We had think about a possibilities that the should could be in a form of bagpack. We then came up with the idea of parachute. So, the paper shell will be folded and put inside the inflatable. But again, after at-tended the tutorial, our tutor said that it might be more intereseting if we made the inflatables at-tached to the body and make the shell inflated.

Fig. 3.5 - paper inflat-able (Forrester 2013) Fig. 3.5 - paper inflatable (Forrester 2013)

Fig. 3.7 - shell rhino model (For-rester 2013)Fig. 3.6 - rhino model of paper inflatable (Forrester 2013)

M3 - FABRICATIONInflatable prototypes

So, after received the feedback from our tutor, we began experimentation with table cloth to make the inflatable. At first, our idea would be to create a sphere inflatable, like a beach ball and then attached it to the body. The process of making the inflatable basicly just as taught in the lms, tutorial and lectures. We weld the edges with plastic welder. Unfortunately we did not consider that making a sphere shape inflatable would be really challenging and might not work that well after being inflated. As shown in Figure 3.10, when we start to fill the beach ball shape inflatable with air, the seams started to break apart. So, after this prototyping, we decided that we would not use the sphere shape inflatable but pillow shape instead. Also, one of our group member sug-gested that this type of plastic would not be able to held all the air pressure and lift the paper shell up so we should considered use a sail cloth because it is thicker. Furthermore, instead of welding the edges, he suggested that we could just stiched them because it was much more effective.

Fig. 3.8 - template (Forrester 2013) Fig. 3.8 - inflatable with table cloth (Forrester 2013) Fig. 3.9 - inflatable with table cloth (Forrester 2013)

Fig. 3.10 - inflatable with clear table cloth (For-rester 2013)

M3 - FABRICATIONInflatable final

Photos taken by Mitchell This is the last prototype of inflatable that we made for Module 3. It was made from sail cloth and we stiched the edges. It was made of five different panels that were attached to the body that would cover, shoulders, front part of the body and the shoulders. The inflatable itself was actu-ally working. However, when we combine it with the paper shell, it did not create effects that we expect it would be. Personally for this one, I do not think that the size is the problem. The problem was when you wear it and inflate it with air, half of the actual size press your body. So, in the end it did not inflated as maximum as we want it to be. Be-cause, if you did not wear the inflatable, and just put the inflatable on top of the table and covered it with the paper shell, it actually worked together.

M3 - FABRICATIONFabrication process (paper shell)

Fig. 3.11 - folded papers

Fig. 3.12 - circle Fig. 3.13 - one group

Fig. 3.14 - two groups Fig. 3.15 - three groups

Photos taken by Mitchell

For the paper shell, the first model that we made in Module 3 was made with ivory card thickness of 250 gsm. In contrast to the prototype that we made for Module 2, we used 80 gsm paper and we think that it was too thin so we de-cided to use thicker paper so that it would be stronger and more resistant. We cut around 2000 circles. So the processes are first, fold the circle as illustrated in Figure 3.12 into the one shown in Figure 3.11. Second, attached three of these folded circles into one group as shown in Figure 3.13. When we constructed the shell, it has many components. The second component would be the one shows in Figure 3.14, it was made by attaching two of the “one group” part.

Another components was the one shows in Figure 3.15 and it was made by three “one groups” part. Unfortunately, after attaching them together, we found out that the ivory card was too thick to make the shell and the shell became too rigid. It barely allows move-ment. This was not consistent with our idea of flexible and portable shell. So, we decided that we would change the thickness of the pa-per. So the next material that we used was 170 gsm paper. This type of paper was the one that we use for our final model in Module 3.

M3 - FABRICATIONFabrication process (paper shell)

Photos taken by Mitchell

M3 - FABRICATIONFabrication process (paper shell)

This was the final model that we made in module 3. However, we failed to make the model for two reasons. The first one is because the inflatable did not work well with the paper shell. Second was that the paper could not hold when we did not put balance support underneath it. Once we wear it, it will break apart.

Photos taken by Mitchell

M3 - FABRICATIONRhino model

Figure 3.16 and 3.17 show the rhino model of the pattern we use in our paper shell.

Fig. 3.16 - pattern perspective ( Forrester 2013)

Fig. 3.17 - pattern top ( Forrester 2013)

M3 - FABRICATIONReflection

For the second lecture, Michelle told us about the making process of emergency shelter. She also mentioned that she also faces challenges like when the cat shelter first made in the federation square, the ma-terial that they thought could work, actually not working really well in reality. So, I feel like that is really true. In small scale prototype, the things that we made seems could work very well, but in reality we might face some difficulties. Also, she gave the idea that be-ing an architect does not mean that you just sit back and do drawings all the time. Like her, she also contributes to the work places during the process of making the shelter. Another thing to add, she also men-tioned a little bit about working together as a team. I think it was really important as I also find some difficulties in working as a group. We should have tolerance and trust to each other. During this module, I could feel the pressure of working with multidisci-plinary people. We all got different opinions and thought and it was really hard to ac-tually agree with something if someone do not care and do not want to listen to oth-ers opinion. Overall, our final model in this module was not build succesfully because of the two things that I mentioned before. It was such a waste because we spent a too much time on constructing the paper shell. But, I feel like learning a lot of things during this module, that I think might change my way of planning and thinking in the future.

During this module three, I really felt that the lectures were inspiring, because it keeps give us encourage-ment during the making process of our final mod-el. Like I mentioned before, for the first prototype in Module 2, we did not face any difficulties in the model making process. However, in this module, I could feel the challenges. During the last lecture in module three, we got two guest lectures. The first one was inspiring in terms of he gave us the idea that we have to make a use of any thing that we have.

In addition to that, if we failed to make some-thing, we should not be panic and need to keep going and trying with the things that we have. It was amazing to know that he produced things without having a studio. Also, it was also surprising to know that the idea of using inflatable was first came up because he has to made something big in small space that he had at that time. Person-ally, I feel like he is really creative also because he travelled a lot and see a lot of different things.

Fig. 3.18 - Emergency Shelter ( No name 2013)

M4 - REFLECTIONReflection from M3

After the submission of the Module 3, we were given time to fix our model. The feedback that we got from our tutor was that they gave us suggestion to not only use a single material for the paper shell. So, we plan to combine the ivory card, 170 gsm paper and 80 gsm paper. Since the middle section of the paper shell need to hold all the weight around it, we should change this part to the ivory card as it is stronger. Meanwhile, the outer part of the shell would be using the 80 gsm paper since it is lighter. The rest of the shell will still be using 170 gsm paper. The purpose of this combination is to make the paper shell hold together since our last failure was the problem with the shell to break apart when you wear it.

Photos taken by Mitchell

M4 - REFLECTIONInflatable re-make

But, our main problem is actually the inflatable. To be honest, I think the previous inflatable is not working the way we want it to be because we did not actually come and work together. This is due to one of our group member, Daniel, live so far away from the city. So, we had some difficul-ties to actually meet up together and figure out something. In the end, I decided that I will come to his home and work the inflatable togeth-er. Based on the feedback from our tutor, we should try just simple things and without worrying about how pratically it would work. Our tutor said that maybe the problem with the inflatable was because it is not big enough. So, she suggested that we should start with material that we al-ready had and then garbage bags. So first, we tried making the inflatable with the leftover table cloth and make quite big size of inflatable. Then, we found out that the problem is not the size of the inflatable but actu-ally how it is attached to the body. So, we used an old vacuum hose and belt and try to attached them together in the body as shown in Figure 4.1.

Figure 4.1 Vacuum hose and belt trial

M4 - REFLECTIONFinal model for inflatable

Figure 4.3 Inflatable in rhino

Figure 4.2 Inflat-able in rhino

Figure 4.4 Inflatable plan in rhino

So, after we decided that we want to use vacuum hose to attached the inflatable to the body, we have to find a way how we are going to attached the inflabtable to the hose. We finally decided that it would be bet-ter if we just use garbage bag. After some discussion, we decided that the size of the inflatable would be 30 cm to the front and back. Before we actually make the real thing. We make a plan in Rhino to see where should we put the inflatable so that it would work the best. Figure 4.4 shows the plan that we made in rhino. After that, we driled the hose and make small holes in the area that we wanted. We then attached the garbage bags. It turned out to be a successful proto-type. The hose transfer the air well and it were inflated.

Figure 4.5 Real prototyping

Before

After

M4 - REFLECTIONFinal Design

We tried everything and all things work really well together. The inflatable and the paper shell also work together really well. The paper also held so strong, we tried to lift it up a couple of times be-fore the final presentation of the model in week 12. Unfortunately, during the photo shoot. The model is not working well. We do not know why, personally I also do not understand, because we tried the model before for two days and it worked well. We even carried the paper shell around be-fore the presentation. But, during the photo shoot and filming, the paper shell started to break apart. Actually only the middle part of the paper shell.

But, despite all of that, the inflatable and the paper shell work together and I think we should be proud about that. The paper shell is so fragile and maybe next time, we should consider first before decided using paper as a material for final model. Because of this incident, we could see that the model is ac-tually looks better if it was placed like the pictures on the left. Honestly, before the module 3 presenta-tion, Daniel and I already told Mitchell that maybe it would be better if we just make a hole and place the paper shell on the shoulders so that the middle section of the paper shell would not have to be the center of all the weight. Unfortunately, Mitchell did not agree and we have a lot of arguments in which we ended up using the previous idea.

M4 - REFLECTIONReflection

Final model

But most importantly, I learned how to work in a group of people with different background and thoughts. I learned how to tolerate and be more responsible in things that are assigned for me. It is important to always listen to other people’s opinion when we are working in a group because we might not always be the one who is right in everything. I also learned a lot of things from my group member. We also share knowledge like I learned how to refer-ence things correctly. It could be seen that the first two module, I still did not know how to reference correctly, but then I learned it from my group member. Moreover, I learned a lot of things about English. Since, English is not my first language, during this group work, I was expected to have conversation in English a lot. This also helps me improve my English skill.

During this whole semester in Virtual environment, I learned a lot of things. I learned how to use rhino, Indesign and photoshop in which I never learned about it before. I also get to know how to think critically and creatively in the design process.

M4 - REFLECTIONDetail

No Name. 2013. Scorpion Fish. Image. Accessed 10 September 2013. http://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/24124 ingenious-and-straight-forward-self-protection-beneath-the-seas/

Jasmine. 2012. Carnival Costume. Image. Accessed 10 September 2013. http://strictlypaper.com/blog/2012/08 carnival-costumes-made-from-folded-paper/

Quiles, P. A. S. 2009. Mimosa Pudica closed situation. Image. Accessed 10 September 2013. http://commons.wik media.org/wiki/File:Sismonastia_de_la_Mimosa_pudica.jpgVincentz, F. 2009. Mimosa Pudica open situation. Image. Accessed 10 September 2013. http://commons.wiki dia.org/wiki/File:Mimosa_pudica_01_ies.jpg

No Name. 2013. Emergency Shelter. Image. Accessed 31 October 2013. https://www.google.com.au/search?n wwindow=1&biw=1241&bih=545&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=cat+emotional+shelter+federation+square&oq=ca

Reference

Credit to : My group member Mitchell Xu and Daniel Forrester