Concrete Object Project (#1 - DESIGN)

Before I start my reflection, I wanted to split my blog posts into 3 parts: designing, trial 1, trial 2. My blog posts will go chronologically from step 1 to step 2 to step 3.

I spent quite a bit of time on the brainstorm/design stage during this project. Initially, I had numerous ideas for a concrete object, and many of my ideas were very complex. After a few classes of sketching and planning different objects, I finally simplified it to the object I carried out the rest of the project on. I made the CAD image for several ideas I was considering:

(This one was extremely complicated, and I didn't really know how to create this out of concrete. In addition, it didn't really have a specific function.)


(This one was an idea I really liked, however I realized it would still be really hard to make this structure out of concrete. However, the function for this concrete piece would be a stand of some sort - I was thinking something to do with displaying jewelry)

These two ideas were good, but they weren't what I wanted to do for the final project. I decided to combine elements from both ideas to create my final idea:

I took the triangles from my first idea and the different elevations from my second idea to create this final triangle-ish object. It would be a jewelry stand or a stand for small items.

Now that I had picked the idea I wanted to run with, as well as created it on sketchup to see how it would essentially look when done, I was ready to start making it out of concrete.



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