Monday and chatting with the tutors

I came in today with my concept model and the experiments I'd done over the weekend. The tutors felt that I had too many ideas going on at once in my model, and perhaps I could "simplify" it. Also, instead of having such an emphasis on the expanding foam, I got some very good feedback for another direction this design could be developed into. Since I'd already established that cork is such a flexible material, I could almost knit or weave it into my structure. I could experiment with layers of cork/their relationship to the rest of the design as well as different thicknesses to create different effects. They also encouraged my asymmetrical design and that the cork manipulation could be "very exciting."

Unfortunately, I had already sent some files to the lazer cutter, but since they were the pieces for the wall, I felt they could still be manipulated. Hence, I decided on layering cork and MDF, but with sections of the MDF wall cut out. In this way, I could "weave" cork around the exterior of my stop, whilst still providing lateral protection and keeping with my original plan derived from the shape of lichen.

Stacking the pieces to show how this space would look. The spaces between would allow cork strips to be weaved through, enclosing the structure, I'd like to think of it wrapping around it like my beanie. I had the pieces cut at the lazer cutting workshop on Upper Queen St, as I was worried the workshop at Uni would be too full of people rushing to work on their 1:1 models (another workshop.)

Adding the perspex and gluing the pieces down - Really liking how it looks! Here are some experiements with plain white paper, seeing all the potential ways I can weave around my structure.

Going to work on bending cork, connecting it, layering and using different thicknesses. I have an idea in mind where it would almost look basket/nest like, a soft cork cage so to speak.