design project at nid

DATE 08-08-2017 The first day of construction and fabrication module started with Pravin Sir, the first day was introduction of the module and visits to junkyard to look for ideas and materials.  attached below are some photographs of todays visits to the sites  old cycles and tyres huge stock of paper rolls  automobile parts  old synthetic leather bags and tv's speakers and old players  old barrels and drums  the place was quite fascinating and full of random stuff that would take someone mind in all possible directions, so still working on what i could do with that and what sort of material the project would use.... .........

week 5-6  26 april 2017 Me and Anurag are working together in a group to make a table and bench for BMW canteen ( so our blogs for the day are also some what similar ) but we have worked out 5 options for the table and bench till date and derived a final form that uses all the learning from the discussion with Pravin sir over the first four failed concepts .........the time is running out and we will start making the furniture as soon as we have figured out the few minor set backs.......... below are the sheets from all the explorations till date............  first concept first concept on voronoi pattern first concept on voronoi pattern first concept on voronoi pattern first concept on voronoi pattern first concept on voronoi pattern first concept on voronoi pattern second concept  second concept on modular furniture that uses a stack of concrete blocks to make table and bench ...

Week 4 Day 4                            13-04-2017                           Thursday was the submission of design project. Design brief issues and design factors material analysis material analysis dimension analysis  references for design solution

Week 4 Day 3                  12-04-2017                  the day before the submission of furniture design, the furniture chosen is table for the BMW canteen. its going to be group work for me and Anurag.... to come up with a design solution, that solves the issues and is in terms with the design philosophy of NID..... reo chair designed by Fifth column  a design firm based in vadodara  run by nidians,   Jaymin Panchasara  vivek prakash a table based on voronoi pattern stool by konstantin grcic

Week 4 Day 2            11-04-2017             Today it all has come down to the final exercise of furniture design, of course with the duly fulfilled process  of understanding the reason behind creating something and why and how it needs to be made.......  there was a good discussion on how to come up with a solution that is derived out of a thought process and actually helps tackle down the issues, rather than just another piece  of furniture....               for BMW canteen the issues were :                                                               so i looked at the possible material that could be viable in such a scenario and concrete seems a good solution to that......  a concrete table w...