Month: October 2018

PROJECT STATEMENT:

For this project I took inspiration in Coral Reefs,  observing their organic shape and color I created 5 product families that will be use as stationary table objects. Looking at precedent and examples I found that this geometry is known as a gyroid, within a bounding box full of points, spheres are creating depending of the amount of points and the expansion of spheres, which creates an intersection and later the full geometry.

The various possibilities of the object are determined by 4 sliders: X value,  Y value,  Z value and density. The XYZ value showcase the different height or length of the parameter, the density shows is the number of points (spheres) that are within the bounding box. They depend on each other, if the slider value is changed the density slider has to change also.

PRECEDENT

 

DESIGN PARAMETER

KEY PARAMETER:

X VALUE

 

Y VALUE

 

 

Z VALUE

 

DENSITY

 

FAMILY MATRIX

5 PRODUCT FAMILIES

3D PRINTED MODELS

 

Presentation: FamilyProductPresentation_ElizabethGomez

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PROJECT STATEMENT:

My project has to do with the directional diffusion of light. I’ve seen directional light and diffused light fixtures as separate entities in the past, so I thought that it might be interesting to combine the two concepts. I have designed pendant lamp shades as well as candle light diffusers.

There were three main parameters that I worked with: height, width, and size of the holes based on the variance in width of the triangular quads. This allowed for a lot of interesting variation. Another big component was the attractor point used. This is what caused the holes to be larger in some areas and smaller in others, in order to diffuse/direct the light.

 

FINAL MODELS:

 

 

SKETCHES:

Creating directional gradient of light through gradient in perforation.

 

 

5 SELECTED PRODUCTS:

 

 

 

GRASSHOPPER DEFINITION

 

KEY PARAMETER: Y VALUE (WIDTH)

 

KEY PARAMETER: V COUNT OF TRIANGULAR GRID

 

KEY PARAMETER: Z VALUE (HEIGHT)

 

KEY PARAMETER: ATTRACTOR POINT

 

 

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