3D Printing

Due to me not being satisfied with remaking a furniture out of my object, I decided to do some research into bridges and then started responding by drawings many different design ideas for a bridge. once I chose my final idea I then started experimenting with different materials such as cardboard and plastic then went on to draw my design on sketch up as I wanted to 3D print my final piece.

Drawing my design on skatch up was very challenging, therefore i had some help from Milot our teacher that was helping us with the project. The sketch up was a very good experience and I learnt tools on the software.

The hardest part of using the 3D printer was to change the sketch up file into a STL and then X3G which are the only file types that the 3D printer could read so I head a lot of difficulty doing it, at the same time it was very educational.

After taking the 3D printer home, it wasn't very successful, this is because the printer was having some issues where it was stopping halfway through the print. i then decided to go back into Ravensbourne and do the printing there with Milots help but unfortunately the printers there also didn't perform as we had wanted it to. Although I still haven't printed my model, i will still look to print it in the future.

Record, Respond, Remake

As the start of our new brief, we had to choose an object which could be any object with any function. From this object we are to record observational drawings directly from that chosen object. In my case my chosen object is a potato masher, the first thing I did was to record observational drawings of the shape of the object and to crop some parts to see if they could be useful.

After the observational drawings of the potato masher, I then started to draw some ideas but always using the design of the potato masher as my first point of inspiration. In these drawings there where ideas for furniture, fire place and many more. This experiment is the respond process in the brief where I'm responding to the object combining both my ideas and the objects original design.

Some of these ideas where very successful, one of these is the idea to use my objects design to remake it as a furniture set of  a dinner table and chairs. Although I have done some progress for it to be a furniture, I'm considering that it could also be a bridge.