Form Trials
27/04/2020
Here is some of early stage form trials.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U6rk5dfl_-dwLk6Z59nZLne2fL4v7bVD/view?usp=sharing
As I mention in the previous posts (you can check after prejury post)
- Metal areas are water containers which can detachable seperatly from system to not affect inner atmosphere
- Other areas will be transparent, which contains the plant
- Seperated parts from acyrlic areas are places for interfaces, which I planned to use surface display
External Advisor Critique
After the voting with my external advisor firm (sixth of the external advisors participate), here is the favourite ones.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kSJi1JhcAhfokbW-t36AqkMXbAPqAVxY/view?usp=sharing
Hi Esmanur,
Thank you for working on the form and creating a pattern by repetition. Adding more material choices and effects will enrich your final product. Technical aspects like connection to electricity and water will also affect your form and material specifications. Stability of the units when they come together is another issue that will have reflections on form. And when they are used as a divider or placed in the middle of a surface back part design will be important as well. Hollow spaces created when the units come together poses cleaning problems. Please try to reflect above issues to your form and technical detail solutions.
Have a nice and safe week!
Dear Instructor,
Thank you for your precious comments.
As I mention before, (in the posts after pre jury) hollow areas used for connection detail. There will be additional part which used lock units and transpass electricity and gas. I am solving tecnical details right now, and I will be try more materials.
Best regards
Hello Esmanur,
I hope you are keeping well. Thank you for your updates, your summary and additional work since the evaluation.
2D front-face study is a very good effort. Repetition of the units in order to see how they look, what space they occupy and what kind of impression they create is important. You can repeat this exercise with the form (in 3D repetitions to see how much space their volume would occupy).
In relation to your external advisor comments, I really couldn’t understand what you mean by “And here is the placement of choosen ones: …” “First Row, Second Row…”. I’m sure we can clarify this on Thursday’s Zoom meeting.
From a functionality point of view, the front faces with white strip on the bottom and side and/or either side together (rather than just on the bottom) may give you a better opportunity to nest the necessary electrical components and make modular connections with the other units.
You’re continuing with Concept 1, however one plus point that Concept 2 had was that it was occupying less space (or at least give the impression of so). You should work on arranging alternative positions of the units relative to each other, rather than just lining them up in rows on top of each other (e.g. back to back). Will there be single size unit or are you planning to introduce smaller one for the plants that are not requiring so much inner volume? Or can the inner space be divided? As you nicely presented in the home environment when the number of the units increase they start getting bigger and bigger and occupy quite a lot of space. Therefore offering options for space management would be very useful. Again, when they are lined up, will there be anything on their front face – will they be all dark and sitting at their corner or more interactive and visible with the users?
That’s all for now.. we can discuss further this week – I’ll be in touch.
Best wishes, keep well and stay safe.
Bahar