PROFILE AND SECTIONmodule 3: fabrication

Justin HAN (637711)Teagan LEWIS (558444)

PERSONALspace

Following module two’s presentation we decided to go back to what

space and what we wanted to express about personal space. We agreed personal space is an invisible boundary surrounding us, in which intruders may not come, which is not necessarily symmetrical or spherical in shape

As explored in Sommer’s reading ‘Personal Space’, we likened to the concept that people are likely to tolerate a closer presence of a stranger at their sides as opposed to directly in front of them. We also agreed that

our idea of personal space with inspirations and precedents.

Throughout the ideation and design module’s we have stuck by the inspiration of an ‘Elizabethan Collar’ or commonly, a dog collar. What

space being what we can sense. Most of our senses are contained on our heads, like visual, hearing, smell and taste. Sommer’s reading also talks about how people also fear to be alienated. The dog collar alienates the dog, reducing its senses and therefore it’s personal space.

For the body of our design, the human body and skin inspired us. We created a voluminous, asymmetrical shape that complimented the human body’s own design, to protect our vital organs. An exaggerated chest and behind, highlight where we are most vulnerable and where we feel most vulnerable and threatened, as Sommer pointed out, in front of us and behind us, not so much our sides.

DESIGNdevelopment

the 123d Catch, hence we decided to download a 3-­D human model from www.3dcadbrowser.com. Physically, this new design was not possible, since boxboards were too weak to hold weight at the front (highlighted in red).

We chose a denser material: 3mm Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF). We removed the front part but left the rear. We added more emphasisis on the chest and bottom area as well as the armhole on Rhino. This design is more stable and rigid, and provides free movement to the wearer’s legs and arms. We also enlarged the size of the armhole for free mevement as well.

We decided to incorporate movement with our head piece, inspired from the intrument: Accordian. The head piece will always stay down and we have our choice to pull up by hand for unwanted interaction with the environment around the wearer. People tend to feel more secure to wear protection on the head, such as helmets, than many other body parts. The wearer will have more freedom to see, smell, hear, and taste. When these are no longer wanted, the wearer can choose to pull up and create his own secure space for the head.

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PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENThead

in the end looked nice but frustratingly the notches were too large, and the parts were falling out extremely frequently. Anyhow, we did learn that the structure works and know what to do in Rhino for other prototypes.

We started off our prototype by assembling the laser cut 3mm boxboards from top to bottom. At this stage above, we realised there are enclosed, circular pieces that have to be assembled below the top 3 pieces. Hence, we had to restart and assemble again from the middle.

PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENTbody

We laser cut 3mm boxboard sheets again like we did for the head, but this time we encountered more errors than the head. Since the parts were too thin, it could not hold the weight to stand alone and resulted ripping and breaking in half.. We tried assembling anyways, but it was clear that the structure is not stable at all.

many pieces that were too thin or narrow, the notches too small for the material and many parts were not cut at all by Fablab’s laser cutter.

FABRICATION

We had to remove all the horizontal pieces and assemble the rear, because there was not enough room.

From the previous protoype, we made sure that the notches 3mm wide, and the pieces are thick enough. We laser cut 14 sheets of 600x900 MDF. The major issue was that some parts were too large which took up a lot of space for cutting.

We arranged the pieces in order and fabricated

only two vertical parts for support.

After assembling both front and back, we glued some loose notches.

We spray painted in black on the outer shell to start off with then touched the details. This used two and a half cans.

FABRICATION

COLOUR THEORY

PowerMysteryFormality Evil

DangerUrgencyEnergeticBlood

A group of men in black can symbolise professionalism. Intruders will have to think before approaching an all black dressed person.

Red is used in many places to alert and stop people from doing something. For example, the STOP sign and No Smoking sign.

What began as a static collar with the face cut out saw

ovular discs, made with an identical replica.

The red stretch rayon fabric was glued in between two of

fabrication.

MATERIAL

Previous

White Perspex

Boxboard

MDF

Chain

Cloth

Originally we wanted to worth with a material such as white Perspex, being durable, rigid and with an

material was heavy, too rigid to allow for natural body movement and $25 per sheet made the material an economical burden.We decided to work with 3mm boxboard in stead, but we encountered over three separate laser cutting experience, the material was, although cheap to work with, too weak and not rigid enough, it would bend, rip and snap frequently. We did incorporate boxboard into the collar because the ovular discs were a solid shape, made more rigid by two duplicated being glue together and suitable for the design.

The material was only a fraction more expensive than boxboard, so within economical budgets, and extremely

movement. The material is quite light but resembles a timber.The fabric used between the ovular discs is stretch rayon. The material is light, cheap, easy to cut, glue and work with as well as the stretch allow it to easily cope with the motion of the collar expanding and contracting.