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Project Four context video.

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Project Four Workbook PDF

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByPhVk4QHT9zdGJnSkx3M3E4MTA/view?usp=drivesdk

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Project Four final Model

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Final assembly and details of product. Bolts for joinery of wood and machined bolts for cushion buttons. 

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Wooden base tests

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Joinery and detailing of wooden parts

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Project four Wood materials. Reclaimed Matai and pine.

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Project Four Fabrics

Fabric scouting for potential upholstry

Thick water-proof green nylon

waterproof stretchy black PVC

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Project Four Foam

Final Foam choice Purchased from NZ Foam Distributors http://foam.co.nz/. This is an extra firm material that can support a lot of weight before depressing or squashing. A second material of the same quantity was purchased in white that is slightly less dense.

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Project Four Material Exploration

Traditional furniture upholstery foam samples 

Big Spring

Foam Samples at NZ Foam Distributors http://foam.co.nz/

Matai wood reclaimed from a tree house I once built

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Project Four Intent

In pursuing this project I intend to expand the first two projects; of re-designing and re-valuing. I intend to re-design a wooden stool I own (once my grandmother’s) in order for it to take on a new form that can be more dynamic and less static; the stool itself is Pine wood about 45cm tall, with four legs expanding from the base and a pairs of joists along the midline.

I would like to pursue a design that can be more comfortable and involve a re-purposing of traditional furniture materials, such as a full-recreation in upholstery foam, or giving it a new persona via use of sound or colour.

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Project Four Precedents

22/05

https://www.animicausa.com/shop/Modern-Furniture-and-Lighting/Feel-Seating-System-Deluxe/tpflypage.tpl.html

http://www.rockitnz.com/

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Project Four: Wonder

19/05

This project is about showcasing examples of unique materiality and form that induces a sense of wonder or surprise in those whom interact with a design. This “wow factor” seems to originate either from a sense of deception wherein a materials is disguised so that it does not look as it should, or from pursuing unexplored opportunities that may challenge tradition or expectations for a product.

The challenge is to create something that supports the body (in some way) whilst eliciting such a response. Immediately I shy away from trying to create a design that is “deceitful” in order to communicate a sense of wonder, favouring instead a concept that the user could build a relationship of trust with and to be more thoughtful; however I intend to create something “experimental” rather than pragmatic, that can elicit a sense of joy and creativity.

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Project Three Redux

words

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16/05/2017

Final Presentation Submission for project 3.

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Project Three Extended Narrative

This project pursues the meaning of decolonisation in design and creates a material product that can take on a persona that facilitates this context; I have developed a process that is socially sustainable and can be a full net positive to the local environment when reintroducing all waste material to the biological cycle.

At the core the project is a defining of “rewilding” into a New Zealand context. The weed I have chosen (gorse) is in abundance and of a net negative value; I have chosen not to pursue a design that increases the value of the material, but a process that is designed to wholly consume the source plant, in order for it to be completely wiped out of areas in which it has taken root.

The result of this means that this intervention is in one sense the opposite of sustainable; however it is completely ecologically friendly.

I propose a system wherein community groups involved in conservation can harvest the gorse on their managed lands in order to make seedling pots and plant pots, rather than using PET pots that can not decompose. Harvesting the gorse spines and petals it will help to restrict it’s growth without needing to completely remove the plant; saplings of native trees and shrubs will grow in these pots until sufficient in size at which point they will be returned to the site from which the pot material was collected and planted (with the pot) into the ground next to the gorse plant.

In managed plots gorse can provide shelter and fertiliser for young plants taking root without suffocating their growth which enables the saplings to grow successfully in the Wellington region. Over a period of time these trees will grow to a point where they equal in size the gorse plant; at this stage the tree is capable of surviving without protection from Wellington’s winds and exposed climate. The gorse plant will slowly die as it is overtaken by the native plant and no longer has access to the direct sunlight it needs.

In this process the gorse is never revalued monetarily, but the value comes from the context of it being used to regrow New Zealand’s endemic fauna which is a unique and important to NZ culture. Through decomposition the gorse will become a part of the new plant and no material is lost through the process; it being a passive resolution through which the gorse is eventually rid means that it is not necessary to burn, dig out, or transport the gorse plant which will cause an increase in the carbon output of the process.

The products in this process are made with only lye as an additional chemical component, which is used to separate the cellulose fibres in the spines of the gorse plant in order to create a fabric; the only additional reactions require access to UV light (sunlight) to bleach the colour and equipment to boil the materials to be used for the production process.

The plant pots have been designed as geometric to reflect the shape of the gorse spines and for easy storage and transportation, and to simplify the production process of the items.

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Project Three Resources

http://www.pelemix.com

http://alibrown.co.nz/blog/making-flax-paper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyr24PgpDDs

http://www.denisefleming.com/pages/about/process/papermaking/papermaking-main.html#gsc.tab=0

NB: stamp mill will produce longer cellulose fibres than blending/hollander --- tortilla press?

http://wric.ucdavis.edu/information/natural%20areas/wr_U/Ulex.pdf

https://elibrary.asabe.org/abstract.asp?aid=25108

https://academic-oup-com.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/ee/article/32/3/680/article //

https://lifestyleblock.co.nz/forum/your-place/22568-gorse

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/rdp-whakatane-news/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503575&objectid=11581023