Spring 2020 - 2 weeks
The aim for this project is to create a container for a vegetable or fruit of choice. I picked up a savoy cabbage and started exploring the different characteristics that it has. After observing the cabbage, I realized that there are two components to this vegetable, an inner and outer shell. I then tried to highlight those two parts in my multi-view drawing and the abstraction drawing. Exploring the section cuts for this vegetable was interesting, as I ended up with one of the section cuts as a crucial aspect, incorporated in my final design for the container.
After analyzing and observing the savoy cabbage, I drew a more complex abstraction of the vegetable and really focused on the central part of the food item by constructing lines out of the central piece of the cabbage. I also sketched some diagrams to separate different parts of the cabbage. I highlighted the leaves and stems in these sketches to better understand the nature of this vegetable. Moving on to the construction of the container, I drew four hexadecagons, where they all intersected each other, and I was left with intersecting patterns to explore and experiment. The idea behind this concept is that I replicated these patterns and decided to raise them as walls to hold the food item. One downside to this design, is that the base plan is too big for the food item which makes the container inconvenient to support the cabbage. However, I was left with these intersting and repetitive patterns that I will later incorporate in my final design.
For the final design, I took ideas from by previous iterations and implemented them into my final design. The construction plan is different from the previous design. I tried to make the plan more symmetrical by limiting the amount of hexadecagons to just one onstead of four. I now have one central shape which goes back to the original vegetable having one central piece. I then replicated the leaf-like shapes around the hexadecagon to act as walls to contain the food item. These leaf-like walls interlock together by notching the bristol paper as illustrated in the elevation drawings. Another feature in this design are the six wings placed symmetrically around the base plan. This idea comes from a previous iteration where I tried to replicate the long leaves of the cabbage into something that functions in a similar way, like these wings that open up and close. All the wings meet in the center of the plan, which was inspired by observing the cabbage upside down.
