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DIAGRAMMATIC/ROUGH SKETCHES

In progress...

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PROTOTYPE 3 @ SCALE OF 1:10

Exterior: Vinyl Chloride Resin, with a thickness of 0.1mm

Interior: Styrofoam Beanbag fillers

Outcome: The overall outcome wasn’t too great as I found the material and form lost some of its flexibility when completely filled with styrofoam. However, accidentally overfilling it and bursting the melted seams which inevitably created a huge pool of styrofoam was a wonderful mishap as I found that the styrofoam would often ‘stick’ to the latex of the balloon and the vinyl when electrically charged. I am still yet to figure out how to combine this interesting discovery into my final project.

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PROTOTYPE 2 @ SCALE 1:10

Exterior: Vinyl chloride Resin, with thickness of 0.1mm

Interior: Air

Outcome: I did two trials, one with a complete ‘bead’ and one with two ‘beads’ joined together. I found that the one with two beads when inflated, the edges of the melted plastic in the interior would become a lot more vague, due to the air pressure forcing the merged plastic to separate. The trial that I did with the sole circular bead has maintained air quite well over the past 30hrs which will be important to consider for my final proposal. The basis of my installation is also the idea of a body landscape so my material and form has to display a sense of vulnerability and change when a human puts their body and weight on to the material and form. I feel as if this material executed this sense of moulding process to the human body well. 

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PROTOTYPE 1 @ SCALE 1:20

Exterior: Latex

Interior: Air

Outcome: It was interesting exploring the forms these balloons can make by layering them. I originally used the balloons to form a rock pool, so to create a protective habitat that the neptune’s necklace can obtain sunlight from (through the various crevices) and thus live and breed and create a colony underneath this floating habitat. I also want this installation to be completely prone to washing up on to the shore since it will be close to the shallow end of the baths due to its coexisting nature of helping young or old people to swim and stay afloat. So in order to execute this, I may need to anchor it down on to the sea bed or have these beads expand to the edges of the existing structure and have it connected there.

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DESIGN PROPOSAL as a result of material testing...

Purpose: To bring a new facility to Middle Brighton Baths so that people who can’t swim are able to physically learn how to by staying afloat but slightly submerged in the water. Their bodies will be supported by expanded circular ‘bead’ shapes to imitate the neptune’s necklace form which will be simultaneously living and over time be breeding a colony underneath this installation. The installation is also a manifestation of a rock pool as that is the habitat that the neptune’s necklace are used to living in while allowing them to float up into the crevices to obtain sunlight. 

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moulding to fit the human body perfectly, like memory foam

->how can I add the idea of memory foam so that my expanded neptune’s necklace installation is continuously changing to fit the range of human participant’s bodies?

sync

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Karine Laval - Altered States, 2012

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‘REGULATIONS’ ALREADY IN PLACE

To make visitors/swimmers/participants feel more safe, comfortable? How about regulation for non-humans? Since neptune’s necklace/seaweed/vegetation are basically vision impaired, would sensation be a key aspect in the way in which they can achieve comfort? Can this shared experience instil a distorted sense of comfort?

Taken at Middle Brighton Baths on the 18/09

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SIGNS OF LIFE 

Taken at Middle Brighton Baths on the 18/09

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A PROCESSION OF ATMOSPHERIC/EXPRESSIVE PHOTOMONTAGES

Making these photomontages really made me think about how a non-human (in this case, neptune’s necklace) would share the waters at Middle Brighton Baths with humans. For the first photomontage, I was thinking about using the characteristics from my protective cast; the netting and the see-through tubing and embedding it into the waters and dividing the waters with these netting and tubing materiality. I then continued to explore division, in the second photomontage, as a contrast to the ‘sharing’ aspect of our design brief and thought about how would the humans feel to sharing their relaxing/active space with these alien looking seaweed and vice-versa, the neptune’s necklace and other non humans would think that they have a more liable claim to the waters as it is their home. From this photomontage, I thought about the masses of humans in comparison to the masses of neptune’s necklace. Both species can completely swarm a space, so I came to the conclusion the Middle Brighton Baths may need some sort of regulation so that the masses of all species can share the waters peacefully. For the third and the fourth photomontage, I started to thinking of the humans and neptune’s necklace sharing the waters more intimately. If there was no visible sight of the neptune’s necklace and it touched a human underwater, would it induce fear? Or would a human voluntarily dive deep into a colony of neptune’s necklace? These questions probe the limits of the relationships between humans’ and non-humans and I am excited about having to solve these perhaps uncomfortable relationships in a spacial context. 

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Floating

via nevver

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_MEDIA MATTERS 12

A speculative proposal/construction...

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TEAM Nancy, Bec, Em, Erin

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spore

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surround