3DD - Day 3

12/09/13

 

Today’s project was to create a structure that can hold up 3 plastic balls. I did a range of designs in my sketchbook, to help build up ideas for when we do create the actual structure. My designs were mostly inspired from Monday’s lesson, where we did different drawing exercises with squiggles, lines and joining random dots together.

 

 

We were told that we would be using spaghetti to create our construction. Each person was only allowed 20 strands of spaghetti. My first thought on this task was that it was going to be really difficult, especially already knowing that spaghetti breaks very easily. I tried using blue tacks to stick first before using the glue gun, but the blue tacks won’t stick to the spaghetti. It was extremely frustrating, so I decided to go straight on using the glue gun. Therefore, I gave up on the idea I planned and basically glue the spaghetti randomly together till it was able to hold three balls.

I finished early, so I decided to develop further into the piece.

I extended the piece to see if I can place the balls at different areas in my structure. I think the fact that I didn’t go with my plan and just glue the spaghetti however I wanted, made things quicker for me. I didn’t have to constantly think about the design whether or not it is going to plan.

I find my piece interesting with the way how if you take one of the balls off the piece, it will straightaway fall on its side. This shows that there must be all three balls present at the right place for the work to stay put.

We had to use an A1 size paper to create a protection for our piece, which would be tested by dropping something on top. I folded the piece of paper, thinking it would be stronger with an extra layer. I rolled the paper into a cone, as I thought whatever the object was will be obstructed by the top of the cone. I slightly scrunched the top of the cone, because I thought it will make it stronger, however it just made the paper bend more easily and weaker at blocking things. 

 

 

The ball hit very hard onto my work, and did crush parts of my structure. To improve I would have rolled the paper into a cone without folding it together, which means the cone would be much taller. As I think the taller the cone, the longer it will take for the impact to occur. I would also not scrunch the cone, as it just made it bend more easily. I saw someone made a box to cover their work, and it was pretty successful as the ball wasn’t able to break through creating just a dent.