An intuitive, explorative task was set as the beginning of the the second design module of our emeducation. To experiment with material and shape. Plain sheets of whatever (I chose tracing paper, colored paper of about the same weight as common printing paper and white, thin card), cuts, folds, twists, turns, no glue, to materialise in the shape of nine models.
After having done my exploration (which I could not avoid to exceed the amount of time given to fulfil in the brief) I chose three, for whichever reason I wished to ( mostly, but not solely based on liking) and sketch them. A sketch for each and three sketches with different perspectives for one.
As an introduction to a piece of 3D modelling software called Rhino, we had to draw one of a our models up in it. I found myself rather slow now, but it really was quite intuitive, the software.
This task was oddly challenging, as it was so free for interpretation, it required an extensive amount of self, the shapes created questioning. All three of the materials I used; paper, but every single one so different to model with and in the result possible to gain.
After having done the first, individual part of the task to prepare us for project 4, we indulged on taking our set of four broom sticks, wrapping paper, gaffer tape and rope, and crafting shelters to sleep and sit in in an footprint of less than a 2 times 2 meters. The group of the four we were, we created a triangle based structure, with brown paper and bubble wrap as the outer shell, which ended up being able to hold all four of us, and was possible to fold up for easy transportation. The most challenging part of this task was to imagine space, a structure of the same size rods and to join them so that the structure would be rigid but mobile. There is definitely a lot of smart thought to be put into small, easily constructable and movable buildings, the idea and problem of which has managed to get stuck in the back of my head.