Project 2: Minima (not Minimal again...)

Ok, so i'm in the blog posting mood so here's my second project, 'Minima'...(not Minimal as you'll see i wrote on the first poster). Again, this was about creating a simple and minimalist livable space. The twist on this project though was that it had to be demountable and moveable, getting us to think a bit more about the structure...crafty people!

Basically started this one out exploring what was an effective way to create a solid enough structure to live in, but was easily taken apart, then it struck me...a jigsaw puzzle! We've all done them, all been frustrated by how hard they can be to finish, especially when that one last piece isn nowhere to be found. So i looked at how 3D puzzles went together. Basically in lots of seperate stages, then all brought together to form one solid construction.

So i ran with the idea and got stuck. A permanent brain explosion had occured and i couldn't think of anywhere else to go with it. So i started with another idea: a cube that could be pulled apart in all directions so that when it wasn't being used would take up very little space, but when it was used would expand to be enough area to live in. The idea was working well but seemed a little boring...so i had a brainwave...combine the two! So what i ended up with was a 3D jigsaw puzzle that could be expanded to live in. So then more ideas started to come like changable images, so one day you could have an image like the Australian flag (like in the poster), then the next day you'd do a double take as it now has the Deakin logo on it (goin for some site references here). So you've got a living sculpture in front of the uni which for the habitee (if its not a word it is now), is like putting together 3D jigsaw puzzle.

So now that my rant is over, heres the posters...

Analysis: Basically exploring how moving objects changes your experience in the same space which is critical to my design.

Concepts: Here you can see on the left how my jigsaw idea developed and on the right is my 'pull-apart' cube. Then somewhere along the way they fuzed to get me out of trouble because i had no idea where i was going...

Final Presentation: So here's the end product. Axo gives you a good idea of what i've come up with after some stressful moments thining about throwing the ideas away all together.

Model: So here's my little sectional model that i whipped up. Not one of my finer creations but still worthy of an appearance up on the blog. Shows basically just the form of the structure, the space in the end is used very simply because its a cube so not much attention was placed on that aspect.

So if anyone feels like it, please leave some comments, both good and bad :P and i'll see what i can improve on for Domus.

Cheers guys!