The last semester of the spatial design study was mainly focused on evaluating technical skills such as using Grasshopper to create complicated models or simulate physical interaction with the environment. The other focus is how to use and modify current images to deliver design ideas and motion. By using Photoshop technics to reconstruct the information in the image and make them useable in my design.
TIME GONE
22nd November 1963, the youngest president in American history was assassinated. He and his wife, Jacquline Kennedy, were regarded by the public as the founders of a new era. TIME magazine called them “Defining a new American era” and the “Man of the Year.” However, these all ended with Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination. To criticize this assassination, the atmosphere was changed into heavy and bloody. This was realized by turning the background black and adding dropping blood. All people involved in this event were presented differently in this hijacked image.
Portraits in the City
This task is an introduction to Grasshopper. The aim was to recreate the appearance of the existing Swanston Square Apartment Tower and turn the outwall into the personal portrait. This task required using Grasshopper to rebuild the existing building and image mapping to transfer images to the polysurface.
IKEA LOGGING, NO NATURE RESERVE
In this project, my groupmate Jiayi Li and I needed to uncover the greenwashing behaviors of IKEA to the public. What made this interesting was that we needed to bring our work on-site to show it to the people. Jiayi came up with the idea that we could use IKEA’s bag as a cover and symbol, and I designed the diorama that simulated the illegal logging process of IKEA inside the bag to show our narrative. After finishing the model. We brought it to the site, showed the public what we made, and communicated with all the viewers who were interested in our work.
Sunlight Beachside
This is a final project of an elective I took part in in 2019, which introduced the basics of a plug-in for Rhino called Grasshopper. This program could allow designers to create and modify complex models by coding.
CODE
This project was aimed at building a shelter with simple materials after people lost their residents in the floods. The shelter was made of soft plastic bags. With the help of Grasshopper and Kangaroo, the shape of the shelter was designed with two firm peaks on both ends and a sag in the middle, representing people will overcome the difficulty and rise again after the disaster. The pattern on the outer surface with Morse code and portrait can send distress code to the rescues.
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
