Project title : Energy - supply Mecha

Project to expend : Structure & Surface 

5 Keywords : 1.Energy 2. Insects 3.charging 4. Connection 5. Space

New concept : 

Since the spaceships I designed in the project Structure & Surface do not have the charging or energy supply system, So I want to create a system to charge them. 

It is a mind map of the energy can be used in the space.

Dark energy and Antimatter can be used in the future but not today since the technological problem.

As these spaceships are designed for the people in the future, I decided to learn more about dark energy and antimatter.[Primary research]

After the research of charging system today, I designed this structure to charge the spaceships.

The charging system is concaved so the spaceship can get in and connect.

There are two magnets inside the spaceship and the charging system respectively to ensure they can connect tightly.

I drew the keywords [ features ] gained from the research and started Idea factory.

Since the " dress structure" is too large and not suitable for flying, so I improved this part and create the "bud" structure.

LINE STRUCTURE :

I really like product design and from this project, I try to design something has more industry feeling and try to think more bravely from this project.

I enjoyed idea factory process the most because when ideas come out ,whatever good or not , I will feel very comfortable since it is quite the stress buster.

This weekend I visited the design museum and saw the example of sustainable design which is the new bottle design for healthrow airport. I think in the further projects, I still need to think about sustainable materials.

I saw XIAOLONG's work with a lot of collage. That is a really good way to get idea and expand his mind. Also makes his sketch book more beautiful. I think I can combine Research and collage, I will try in the next project.

This morning, we went to kingscross campus and the railway station for research.

The research topic is light, lighting. Kingscross campus is a former station. In addition to very modern architectural styles and objects, such as glass and metal wire-drawn access facilities, there are also some historical items, which are full of rust and look very heavy. (like visiting a museum) I photographed different aspects of light, such as reflection, refraction, light source and so on. It also used video to record flashing warning lights, people moving in reflections and so on. Light behaves differently in different materials. Light shows the feeling of phoney illusion on the material that pulls wire in metal, appear heavy on rusty iron, on glass, light reflects realism.

In the afternoon, through group discussion, we classified the secondary research on the weekend. I prefer product design related to light, so my research works are all about products, including household lights, signal lights and lighting design of some products. Most of the products focus on geometry, bright and spatial, so I think I can add a little bit of diffuse to my design.

 

Today ,the work of Altredo Moser inspirate me a lot.

Actually, after the idea of TIME RECORDED BY LIGHT came into my mind ,It became very hard to develop It because It is difficult for me to find the target users and sometimes I think it is not a product since that.

However, BOTTLE LIGHRT do not have target users and seems everyone can use this product. This product is made by BOTTLES and using the reflection of sunlight to bright the dark room in daytime.

So, maybe the users can choose the different sunlight they like !

For instance ,Some people may feel energetic at 10 o'clock so that choosing the sunlight at that time and they will feel the time stopped at 10 am. As a result, these users will feel productive and not easy to get tired for whole day.

Also,the people always sleep at daytime can still choose the light at night and to make them have a good rest.

LAMP - CLOCK

It is a LAMP that can be used to represent time by the changing of intensity and colour of light.

Different "O'clock" , different lights.

Users can also chose the light [ex.light of 9 o'clock] they want by clapping the lamp for 2 times.

The theme of this project is related to light, so first of all, I done the Primary research of light and analysis different light used in the ancient time and today.

In the ancient days,solders used fire torch to hit the shields and beautiful fireworks come out .In Tang dynasty, people suspended hundreds of lanterns to create the Streetlight in Chang’An. These kind of streetlight create an amazing atmosphere of sunset.It seems that the sunset is always there and the sun never get down. So, people called them SUNSET LANTERNS.

I also took photos at kingscross campus and the train station.I understood that how material and textual influence the reflection ,shadow of the light.

In secondary research, I analysis different products related to light. The IDEA FROM THESE WORK : SEE THE COLOUR CLEARLY,DO NOT DAZZLE PEOPLE ,INTERACTIVE, MINIMALISM AND NATUAL FEELING.

After that, I started brain storm and lots of ideas came out.Finally I choice the idea that light can be used to record time.

So,IN this case, I developed this idea and make it become a clock using light to represent time. The changing of intensity and color of light represent different clock of time.SO i made a testing model and observed the sunlight shot on this model different hours.Then I used photoshop to make the intensity and colour of the light more suitable for a “lamp”.The reason why I choice RED AND ORIANGE COLOR to represent light at night is because these colour always makes people warm easy to sleep.The light at 12 am is the darkest and the brightest at 12pm.

The potential problem is how users understand the time.The first one is different hours ,different part of the verge will shine ,the position of shining is the same as the mechanical clock shows.[EX. 9 o'clock, shining at the middle of left edge.].At the same time, colour and intensity of light also changes to show different hours.The second one is using shadow play to represent pointer. ,which means time pass away when position of shadow changes .At the same time, colour and intensity of light also changes to show different hours.The second one is using shadow play to represent pointer. ,which means time pass away when position of shadow changes .At the same time, colour and intensity of light also changes to show different hours.

The shape of the product is come from the shape of lanterns,

However , the initial product  is not very fashionable and it cannot stand stabily on the desk or ground. so I simplify and analysis the shape of lanterns and drew them in a geometrical way.Cutting the lantern and rotate it 30 degree ,the half lantern seems easy to stand.

Then, I made the model of the product and it really can stand on the horizontal surface.I also drew the pictures using Mark pens .

After reading the article of BOTTLE LIGHT, I realized maybe the users can choose the different sunlight they like !

For instance ,Some people may feel energetic at 10 o'clock so that choosing the sunlight at that time and they will feel the time stopped at 10 am. As a result, these users will feel productive and not easy to get tired for whole day.

Also,the people always sleep at daytime can still choose the light at night and to make them have a good rest.

 NAKAGIN CAPSULE TOWER

The design that I research is a building called Nakagin capsule tower which is created by KISHO KUROKAWA - a famous designer in Japan.

In Japan , there are a lot of people are very busy so they always miss the last bus at night.

That is a essential and serious problems for Japanese people in 1970s.

KISHO KUROKAWA realised this situation and design a capsule building for these people.

He done the research of the space capsule which the astronauts can sleep and work and eat in this room.

The furniture and equipment are unitized and housed in the living cabin of about 7 square meters. The 140 "capsules" that make up the edifice bear witness to the cramped living of the Japanese 50 years .

The designer used the steel container structure to create the whole outside of the building. Inside this tower ,there are small kitchens, ovens and the other necessary objects, that's  quite a ''nest''.

The whole tower is future style, that’s incredible in 1979.The whole building is minimize  which means the whole things in this design is functional.

“product design is to solve problems directly”, said by famous designer Oki Sato.

MY work is a e cat ,but I think I didn’t carry out the problem directly by my product. Users just need the feeling of textual of cats hair ,not  the whole cats shape.

So, what I need to do next is to minimise my product , only keep the functional things which’s hair and muscle and e bone inside.The research of the shape of cats ,why the cats makes people feel comfortable need to be down.

By the way , the chooses of colour is also quite important so that I need to add a colour research of romanticism.