Structure Collab Week 1

 Week 1 well underway. 

Our group met briefly on Friday and came up with a plan to share some ideas and research by Monday at 5pm, so we could then discuss all the ideas on Wednesday during our meet up. 

Lots of great ideas came down the pipeline! Erica brought to the table some really neat designs that are a fun mix between geometric and organic lines. Lesley suggested some great lighting designs with wooden chandeliers. Liro with a multi functional bench. Yuxin found some really cool designs for furniture that are really innovative. Chloe shared some really cool CNC designs that are both 3D and 2D. I am inspired by the designs that Nadia shared, and pieces that permeate space, like room dividers. Daniela shared some amazing designs as well, and had a ton of colour - which I love. 

My thoughts for this project were to do something for the student body that could be used in the school. I was considering The Nest, or the Cafeteria as a location and I thought of Napping Pods or Working Spaces that could be semi-private for those deep study needs. 

Napping Pods:

There is nothing I would love more than a place to have a quick snooze between class, or while I wait on my project before I can move forward with it. Studies show that having napping pods increases productivity of employees and students. 

https://www.corporatewellnessmagazine.com/article/employers-waking-benefits-sleep-pods

University of Miami have added nap pods in their university to help combat stress and mental health issues that affect students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrTssn03DMk

Working Spaces:

Despite the addition of new furniture around the school I find that semi private study spaces are hard to come by, or a space where you just need a little down time to collect your thoughts after a crit. Here are some ideas I shared with the team. 

On Wednesday after sharing our ideas we determined that we would like to move forward with a piece that could benefit students. We feel that because the materials are being provided for us, we would like to give that back to the student body is an indoor, a working space, and multi-functional. 

We accomplished a lot in a week and meet tomorrow (Friday) to pitch our designs to each other and see what we love and what we get excited about. Our biggest challenge is narrowing down the options, and required the extra step to show each other a design. 

I am pitching a privacy screen to work with a seating space. A moveable 4' x 4' wall that could create a little sanctuary students can retreat behind. I am so obsessed with creating patterns similar to the one from my Lample, and I would love to see it in full scale (it is all I can think about). I think putting it on a support with wheels could make this a safe, and fun addition to any space in the university. I envision this being colourful like Daniela's design suggestions. Here is my quick and dirty render, I realized after creating this that I would need to round out all of the edges as the CNC can not do corners the way they are drawn in this render. I used only Rhino for this example, however I was thinking about how Grasshopper was much better to work with and designing the definition in my mind while creating this. 

I had a lot of fun playing with this design and started to explore options of different thicknesses of the curves and how that changes the movement in them. I look forward to sharing this idea with the team even if we don't move forward with it, it was fun playing with this design again. I hope we finalize ideas tomorrow and get to work, because there is no shortage of things to do. 

Cheers.