Texture, Color, Light

 The focus of our design efforts is focused on the idea of texture and how color and light play with the experiences of the design. One of the main things we took into consideration is making the system easy to fabricate so the IOB can easily install it into the space. 

Recognition and Support of the IOB Design Project

There are many things we have acomplished through this design project some of which is being aproved for continued work as an Undergraduate Research Project. Through this we are continuing to work with the Industries of the Blind on finalizing and fabricating a design for their lobby, stairwell and circulation spaces, conference room, and factory floor spaces. This design will display the history of the IOB as well as displaying the family environment of their company.  Another accomplishment of this project is being featured in the Chancellor's report for 2011-2012 along with being apart of the "Do Something Bigger" campaign.

http://chancellor.uncg.edu/chancellor_report/2012/

http://ure.uncg.edu/prod/inspirechange/2012/01/04/helping-us-see-the-blind/

Spring Independent Project

For the spring 2012 semester Anuj Patel and I ,Kristy Stroud, furthered our work with the Industries of the Blind. We took a few steps back and revisited our past work to create a stronger concept and design direction. Along with working on designing the lobby space we worked with the IOB to create an instillation to display our previous work for the employees and visitors to see. The instillation served as a way to show off our work and gain feedback from the IOB about the design.

dancing shape

final presentation

Texture Design!

We finally applied the texture to our pattern and incorporated it into our wall installation.

Finalizing the design!

After our last presentation with Scott Richardson, David Lopresti, and Richard, we have been focusing more on applying texture to our hexagon patterns. We have started working in Rhino, creating different files to take to the CAM studio to have them laser cut. Caity and Kristy played with the vacuum for awhile, testing out different ways to incorporate texture into our pattern. We finally came up with a somewhat finalized idea of pushing our pattern into the wall, and fading it back out and then transitioning into the pattern coming out of the wall. The pattern will remain the same color as the wall so that it does not become too overbearing. After Caity created the rhino file, Monica, Sarah, Tuan, and I started putting everything together to finish our wall installation.