<Movement> Recycled tube chair
Children design studio Onceneto teamed up with La Tercera newspaper and done an interesting job recovering waste material from the paper's print process.
<Movement> The Bell Lab
'The Bell Lab' Sofa by Moroso
As I researched for sofas shaped in a cylindrical form, I came across The Bell Lab sofa made by Moroso. This model was originally designed for a project by the historic research facility in central in New Jersey (a project by Eero Saarinen). I got a brief idea of the size and shape for my initial sketch.
<Movement> Moving Buildings
Dynamic Tower by David Fischer
Each floor is designed to rotate independently, resulting in a changing shape of the tower. Each floor is designed to rotate a maximum of 6 metres per minute, or one full rotation in 180 minutes.
Shanghai Art Center by Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio
<Movement> Kruikantoor
'Kruikantoor-Mobile Office' by Tim Vinke
Kruikantoor-this name is a combination of the words, wheelbarrow and office. The material for this model is EPS foam. I really liked how all interior elements could be combined, allowing the whole object to be moved easily.
<Movement> tilt/drop
Tilt/Drop
'Leaf' by Luum
This piece anodised aluminum discs can be tilted and arranged so illumination mimics light shining through a canopy of leaves. I think it would look beautiful under light, creating beautiful shadows.
'Raindrop' by Luum
<Movement> A Windmill
Rotation and Spin of a Windmill
The clock hands of the musee d'Orsay and the Big Ben reminded me of the windmill and a wind power generator. Windmills rotate by wind, which gave me an idea to design a building that rotates by wind. I designed a building in which each floor separately rotates by wind.
<Movement> Big Ben
Rotation of the Big Ben
After seeing the clock on musee d'Orsay, I decided to research more of the clock towers. Obviously, I couldn't miss the Big Ben. The huge clock on the building just keep inspires me to design a rotating building.
<Structure&Surface> Wearable Sculpture
A wearable sculpture by Lydia Hirte 2012
It would look so pretty as a lighting piece.
<Illuminate> Vase D'avril
I got inspiration from the technique of Vase D'avril. Cylinder vases are connected with metal rings, and they can be bended.
<Illuminate> Reflection of colored glass cups
I tried it with plastic colored cups.
<Illuminate> Jason Bruges
Jason Bruges' studio is internationally renowned for producing innovative installations-creating interactive spaces between the world of architecture.
<Use It> Robin Day & Charles and Ray Eames
During the class, we were given the Polyprop Chair by Robin Day as a main example. I did more research on his works, including the Polyprop chair. I found that all of his designs were very functional and technologically efficient. I specifically researched for the chairs that have two distinct boards. Robin Day's Hilleplan chair, which was created for the Festival of Britain, was modular so that multiple units could be combined in coordinated groups. Chevron chair was also aesthetically beautiful and practical, making it equally suitable for domestic or contract use.
I also did a research on one of my favourite furniture designers, Charles and Ray Eames. Their infamous DSW chair has a very similar design to Robin Day's Polyprop chair. DSW chair is very simple and useful, and it's design suits literally everywhere. Their LCW chair is also my favourite. I've once read a book about Charles and Ray Eames, and found out that the LCW chair was actually designed for elders at sanatorium, who have uncomfortable bodies.
<Wear It> Winde Rienstra
For the project Wear It, I wanted to design a product that can support uncomfortable body parts. I was inspired by fashion accessories made with hard and solid material. For example, I was inspired by Winde Rienstra’s 2012 S/S collection. The design was intricate and unique, but the outline was shaped with solid wood which made it look very strong.
<Ideas Factory> Installation Size
Tripod , Porto by LIKEarchitects
My final installation model would be the similar size to the stairs in the picture. Audiences will be able to walk up the stairs and physically experience the art.
<Movement> Bookinist
Bookinist by Nila Holger Moormann GmbH
This moving chair has a very simple design, yet is multi-functional. I really liked how there is only one wheel because I think that is what made the whole model look simple but unique. Also, I really like the light stand stuck on the chair.
<Movement> Swing/Dangle
Swing/Dangle
'Swing Table with hanging chairs' by Christopher Duffy for Duffy London.
'The hanging hoop chair' at the leebroom showroom in New York.
'Pendulums' by Fabrica
The Pendulum creates an entropic melody of tones based on the collisions of the Alcantara covered spheres suspended from the overhanging structure. I really like this piece because I think users of any age could play with it.
<Movement> A clock on Musee d'Orsay
A clock on the building of Musee d'Orsay
I found this clock on the building of musee d'Orsay, when I visited there few days ago. I was inspired by the rotation of the huge clock hands. I thought of an idea of a circular rotating windows on a building, that winds up on each other like a clock. From that idea, I even thought of designing just a moving building.
<Structure&Surface> "Causa-Efecto"
"Causa-Efecto" ("Cause & Effect"; 2012), by Ana Soler
An installation art that looks like tennis balls are bouncing. The motion reminds me of waves.
<Illuminate> Primary research at KX
King's Cross station was built by the company John McAslan, with the concept of re-use, restoration and new build. The train shed and range buildings have been adapted and re-used. John McAslan is famous for bringing both new form and function to old structures. The station combines striking design with efficient and practical central purpose-users' comfort.
<Illuminate> Olafur Elasson
A Danish artist known for sculptures and installations employing materials such as light, water, and air.
<Illuminate> Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. Since the late 1990s Heatherwick has emerged as one of Britain's most significant designers.
<BUILD IT> Beko Building by Zaha Hadid DDP by Zaha Hadid
A building in Serbia, named the Beko Building, also designed by Zaha Hadid.
The Beko Building is a swirling complex of apartments, offices and leisure facilities on the abandoned site of an old textile factory. It is shaped with various bendy parts of the design help create "one continuous unit". The curved walls of the buildings fold around a series of new squares and gardens. "The design for Beko is embedded within the surrounding landscape of Belgrade’s cultural axis and incorporates essential public spaces," said Hadid.
<Wear It> Junya Watanabe
Junya Watanabe's 2017 FW collection
He used felt material and created thick structural pattern. I got an idea of making a chair with a thick felt material, which will make the product easy to fold and carry around.
<Ideas Factory> Stairs Installation
Second Means of Egress by Sarah Sze
This installation art has numbers of stairs connected in not so organized form. It reminds me of my never ending stairs design.
<Ideas Factory>M.C. Escher .
Maurits Cornelis Escher, or commonly M. C. Escher, was a Dutch artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts and lithographs. His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, and hyperbolic geometry. Although Escher believed he had no mathematical ability, he interacted with the mathematicians and conducted his own research into tessellation.
<Movement> Tank wheels
Different assortments of tank wheels
My initial inspiration was from the clock on the building of Musee d'Orsay. I related that idea of the rotation of a clock to wheels. I was specifically interested in the wheels of a tank, in which seem like a series of circles overlapped on each other. From the shape of the belt that connects the wheels on a tank, I thought I could create a chair in a similar form.
<Movement> Rocking Chairs
‘CHITCHAT’ public seating concept by Teun Fleskens
<Movement> tilt/stroke
Tilt/Stroke
This net suspended above the staircase is called the "227 Flat". It's designed to be a part hammock, and a part crow's nest.
This flat layers of nets are subsequently connected to one another on counterpoints thus forming a “floating landscape" open for visitors to climb in and explore.
<Structure&Surface> Folded
ceramic sculpture by Wouter Dam
by Nikolas Weinstein
"Waves" by Yomaguchi Ryuun
<Structure&Surface> Installation with Black String
by Dianne Romaine & Sabine Reckewell
Just by using black strings, it creates an art in a space with the elements that surface carry.
<Illuminate> Primary research at CSM
Central Saint Martins KX campus was built by Stanton Williams. He has completed over 350 architectural, urban design, masterplanning, and won over 100 awards. Their portfolio developed from an initial focus on museums towards a variety of projects which demonstrate its overarching objective of putting the user's experience of space, light, and materials.
<Illuminate> Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi was a Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.
<BUILD IT> DDP by Zaha Hadid
For the project Build It, my group built a twisted building with a pattern. I wanted to research more architecture that had similar aspects.
DDP(Dongdaemun Design Plaza) Building in Seoul, South Korea, designed by Zaha Hadid. DDP is shaped in curvy lines, with constant pattern of horizontal lines. Every time I visited DDP, I was mesmerised with the building because the whole building is designed in such a futuristic way and shaped like a UFO.
<Ideas Factory> Impossible Objects
An impossible object (also known as an impossible figure or an undecidable figure) is a type of optical illusion. It consists of a two-dimensional figure which is instantly and subconsciously interpreted by the visual system as representing a projection of a three-dimensional object.
<Ideas Factory> Optical illusional artworks
They look very similar to surrealistic paintings.