Thursday, January 17, 2008

Ideation & Process - 3D Map

Assignment: Create a 3D Map that directs from room 432 to the coldest place on the first floor of the main MCAD building.

Extra: The class was allowed 13 minutes to retrieve any materials they could get their hands on. However, if anyone returned late, they were not allowed to use any of the materials they found and could only use the materials that they had with them in class.





The materials I used included notebook paper, cardboard, and tape grabbed from the service bureau.

Process: I basically used the same process that Kinji Akagawa preached about in Foundation: 3D. "Just do, Daniel-san." So I just did, and I formed the main MCAD building using a small piece of rectangular-shaped cardboard. I then took strips of notebook paper that form the "floors" or "levels" of the building: 1st floor, 2nd floor, 3rd floor, and 4th floor. They are labeled (backwards, so that when you look into the box, you read them correctly).

The south stairs were then made using two more strips of notebook paper that were then folded back and forth to create a, sort of, "paper accordion". I then took the fringed edges of the notebook paper and used strips of that as a "path" to show the user where to go.

The end destination is marked by a shape that resembles a star (I would say it was a star, but as we all now know I cannot hand-rip recognizable stars). I also used some paper to mention another set of stairs located on the first floor. This serves as a landmark to help the user locate the "star", or destination.

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