Student No: 617260 Semester 1/2013 Group 6

Adela Risha Saputra

Ideation Review

Reviewing my ideation process from the previous module, I took the initial inspiration from the cross-section view of a red cabbage. From there I tried playing with the geometry of the Fibonacci spiral which was evident in the pattern, and eventually came up with three basic concepts or recipe in making my final model:

01. Spiral02. Suspended03. Fold04. Collaboration of all the above techniques.

Digitizingthe Model

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Front View Top View

Basic shape

Lofting

Render view

Digitizing exactly from the plasticine model, without precise scale.

This model presents many flaws:- It is a polysurface; cannot be panelled entirely.- The surfaces are too perfect. - Presents unnecessary surface (spirals) that makes panelling difficult.

C o n c e p t Idea #1

The red cabbage has a unique scaling pattern which goes big-ger as it goes around upwards. This particular movement in the cabbage has inspired me to take its concave shape and ap-plied it to my lantern surface.

CONCAVE

FINAL SURFACE

C o n c e p t Idea #2

As similar to other flowers, cabbage also has many layers on top of each other, which can be seen in the picture. Each of these layers make up spirals which goes around from the center in

circular motion.

LAYERING

Spiral layers

#1DEFAULT

TRIANGULAR

TOP VIEW SOUTH WEST FRONT RIGHT

RENDER VIEW -OUTER LAYER

RENDER VIEW -INNER LAYER

Outer layer:Pyramid 1

(default 3D pattern)Variable offset border

Inner layer:Triangular

(default 2D pattern)

#2SPIRAL

andOVERLAP

Outer layer:Custom 3D Panelling

(Triangular shaped that overlaps each other)

Inner layer:Custom 2D Panelling

To make bigger triangular panels

CUSTOM 2D PANEL

PANEL MOVEMENT

The panels are deliberately placed in a spiral move-ment (by manually moving

the points)

#3LAYERS

andOVERLAPS

Outer layer:Custom 3D Panelling

(Triangular shaped that overlaps each other)

Points are arranged manu-ally to create the overlap-ping panels protruding out-

wards.

Custom 2D PanellingTo make bigger triangular

panels

Inner LayerDIFFUSED

LIGHT

The end of the inner layer is a trimmed extrusion which functions to diffuse the light that will be placed in that

particular area.

Outer LayerOVERLAPPING

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UNROLLINGI choose the third panelling form because it sums up my development design idea quite well. The overlapping panels create the effect of layering, which is also ap-

parent on the cabbage.

PROTOTYPEFLAWS

The hollow section at the back of the pattern made it quite impos-sible to glue each strip on top of each other

SOLUTION: redo the panelling with an additional face at the back (or below)

The folding of each pyramid is dif-ferent. Marking it to score will only allow one side folding, which will make the folds easily unattached.

SOLUTION: Label the foldings with dotted lines to avoid tearing.

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FIRSTPROTOTYPE

Two options for the lan-tern’s interface with our hand

PRECEDENT STUDYThe overlapping panels create a diffusing light effect that is appar-ent in the picture (with the gradient colors spreading out)

LIGHTEFFECTS

In this experiment, I tried putting my current prototype, which is the outer skin of the lantern, on top of a lamp and it produce a natural layered lighting effect which I was initially going for.

GOLDEN MOONHK, 2012 - LEAD