And prototype, again

I know, I know, it may seems that the only thing we are doing is a prototypes, but for previous installation we really needed to test it in order to know if we would be able to build it in actual size.

Soooo,  after we (building team) explained the situation with another installation they agreed that it may be not the best solution to build those shapes, especially if we are not completely sure if we will be able to make them look nice. They liked the idea, and developed it a bit more, so now we had a clear added value to the city and also some other questions was solved as well.

Since the sprint demo was on the next day we had to act fast.The laser cutting machine works with illustrator files so there were no point to sketch it more on the paper , so I started working on this right away in illustrator.

The first thing I did was the map, we needed the map pattern. So I traced the map in the illustrator and made building shapes more rounded.

Next step was a placement of the pattern on the box, it took some time, but I managed to split the pattern  over the estimate box:

Since I never used a laser cutter I needed to check on that first. Manual explained everything super clear, so I made a proper file and started cutting  it.

After we printed the box and tried to put it together I find my mistake. I didn’t really though about gluing it together and just made sides of the cuboid. When we started putting it together it didn’t really worked that smoothly, but then I found a solution of putting the thin wooden stripe on the corners which will serve as a connection part for all the sides. It worked perfectly and we got our basic box example ready for the demo.