I did enjoy this project this whole semester. On personal growth, I have acquired all of my goals I have set up in the beginning of the project. I have wanted to do something music related ever since I learned about the FAT project. Concept wise, I am happy we managed to set all the... Continue Reading →
Last day
Today was the last day of the building process. As you read previously we have made new copper buttons with a finger print engraved on it, making sure it is gonna be understandable for the users. We tested it out on other people and we received positive feedback, the button making more sense now. We... Continue Reading →
Building W.9
Last week we almost finished with the lower part, having already put together the acrylic plastic shapes. I don't wanna brag but we received a lot of compliments from other teams regarding our acrylic shapes, saying that they look cool and eye catching. This week we have to finish the upper part of the the... Continue Reading →
Final touch ups
Today it's not as busy however there are still some tasks remaining to accomplish. As we are trying to help each other, one of my tasks for now was creating digital building wireframe of our installation so the promotion team could further use them. I decided to go for a simple design of the whole... Continue Reading →
3D model of the installation
While sketching different versions of the installation, some teachers advised on having a 3D model for a better perceivance of the installation. We took the advice of the teachers and created our first model in Maya. After discussing with the team, the pedestal will be way taller and the map thinner.
Old concept – new sketches
As we, the building team, had a hard time making the prototypes we had to give up on the old designs and come up with something new. We are still working with the old concept, however we did add a new value to it, involving the map of enschede. As inspiration we are going for... Continue Reading →
Searching for materials
We build our prototype so now we had a clear image how it should look like and we were able to research on building options and materials. There were few possible building options from the wood to make it curvy shape. One is to stack wood plates one on another, and second option is almost... Continue Reading →
Building the prototype
As the sketches were approved, we, the builders team started working on the prototype.We decided to construct a smaller version of the installation, our measurements being: 10cm = 1m (in real life). To see the estimate scale of installation for materials we decided to go cheap and use cardboard. Firstly we started building the prototype... Continue Reading →
Installation sketches
So once we decided on what type of shapes we wanted in our installation, I started sketching how the installation would look like. I thought I would make the shapes resembling musical notes or musical instruments.Thus this is what I came with: Also taking in account that we are collaborating with "Music in the streets"... Continue Reading →
Moodboard
As we finally decided on our idea, we took on the task of coming up with a moodboard which represents our idea. Each of us were to make their own moodboard and then combine them together. The girls wanted to do the instalations' shapes resembling flowers, however I wanted firstly to go for cubic shapes... Continue Reading →
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