3DD Week - Day 1

TASK 1
We started Day one with drawing 10 sketches with the idea of stepping outside of our comfort zone, the tasks were:

• To Draw a squiggle and turn it into something which can hold two humans and one cat
• To draw your favourite fruit and turn it into a rabbit hut.
• To draw the number of your house and turn it into a bus shelter.
• To draw the underneath of your shoe and to turn it into a piece of jewellery
• To draw one line horrizontal, one line portrait and another diagonal and turn that shape into a shopping centre. 
• To create a vehicle made from a square, triangle and circle
• To create shoes from two enclosed round shapes.
• Place ten dots on the paper and create a floor plan of a two bedroom house.
• Draw the outline of a human and turn it into a hybrid animal from your favourite animal
• Make a lamp from your favourite item of clothing.

These tasks, enabled me to be more creative with shapes and to learn how to make them work for me, rather than a difficult shape stumping me and stopping me from progressing then lastly from all that we learnt we had to create a new MP3 player, without the tasks I did previously, I personally would of never of been able to think outside of the box when it came to creating the "out of the box" MP3 player.

Final Outcomes

TASK 2

Final Outcome

For the second task we were given the brief to make a contraption which was to hold a water bottle filled to the brim, trying to think outside of the box using the task we did earlier on in the day; i came up with doing a simple bridge design however holding up the bridge would be an arrange of shapes which would be able to carry the weight of the bottle. The shapes I chose to focus on were triangles and cylinders because of how they are structurally sound when placed up right, however if placed sideways they would crumble and not be able to carry the weight of the bottle. With all of this mind i started to make the structure, without the use of the triangles and cylinders I don't think i would of been as successful as i actually was, however without the bottle on top the structure was 20 cm off the group (which was the brief) however when the bottle was placed on top the pressure of the bottle caused the underneath to squish and lose 9 cm overall which meant i failed that part of the brief, if i were to do this again (with more material) i would build it taller with the idea that when the bottle is on top the pressure will cause the underside of the structure to collapse.

Final Outcome

TASK 3

 The final task of the day was to make a struture which was to carry the weight of a person, however trying to not make it a chair shape AND making sure it could be flat packed. so with what i learnt previously and the brief i decided  that cylinders and triangles are strong shapes i felt like those were shapes i wanted to work. We were limited to using 4 sheets of cardboard to make this structure, so i focused first of all with making the "feet" of the structure, by scoring the cardboard i was able to create the 4 triangle bases that i needed for the overall structure, from this i then went on to making the sides, i did this by wrapping round a piece of cardboard and doing the same by scoring the places where i needed it to bend and when it came to connecting the pieces as it had to be a flat pack i decided to slot the pieces into each other. Unfortunately this chair was not able to hold any weight due to the sides not being strong enough however the triangles did remain intact, if i was to do this again, i would measure the sides properly and make sure that the slots and the triangles themselves are so precise that not eve a millimetre would be off, as this is key into making sure the structures are sound.