Assessment 3: a sense of place, attempt 2

The Coogee sway Chair has been designed specifically for the board walk area of Coogee beach, although that’s what its specific designed for it is catered for all foot path area’s located near water. The idea came across when people walk past the beach, would want to relax at the beach, but was not prepared to go in the sand, some people simply having a lunch break from work or just going for a brisk walk. Having this sway chair allows the individual to lie down comfortably, enjoy the beach, enjoy the sun, enjoy the beach breeze without getting sand on you or wet.

The design of this chair was made so that the individual is not entirely in a horizontal position yet not sitting upright; this allows the person to be highly comfortable in a relaxing position, yet still having the safety of being aware of their surroundings. Something that had to be taken into consideration for this chair was the safety, especially for some things such as ergonomics, and UV radiation. Because of this the chair has been designed to have a UV tinted Perspex sunshade, this allows it to protect you from the sun, especially seeing as majority of people just “walking by” will not have appropriate sun protection. The ergonomics of this design has been made to suite the human spine without warping or distortion to keep the person as comfortable and as safe as possible.

Matthew Patane

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Street wise L chair

Rationale

The street wise train station chair was made to suit the needs of summer hill train station. After observing summer hill train station some things I understood were that there was limited seating undercover, it was primarily an outdoor area, generally quiet area, there was next to no privacy in the station itself, a lot of empty not used space, and along with that it was not a common train station, meaning some trains skip that stop so they can go to more important busier stations. Because of this I designed a new form of furniture to suite summer hill’s train station’s needs.

My chair I have designed provides an adequate number of available seating, by having enough room for 8 people to sit comfortably, meanwhile it has an acrylic shelter to protect from the sun and rain and give it the advantage of being undercover.

The chairs are also divided up into their own cubicles, this allows people to have improved privacy when waiting for their trains, less people will be able to listen to their personal conversations and along with that they will feel more comfortable being in their own privatized area. To mix with this trend I have allowed the dividers to be part acrylic/glass, this allows it to be private, but still with the acknowledgement of what is going on around them. The zig zag like nature of these chairs allows multiple of these chairs to be bought, and connected up to each other to fill up more space and cater for more seats.

After doing some research on the general demographic of the summer hill area I noticed it is a rather wealthy, sophisticated and quite suburb in nature, I also noticed that crime in summer hill is very low compared to the NSW average. Because of this I chose to make the chair out of oak, being oiled and varnished. The fact that it’s oak caters for this wealthy and sophisticated group of people, along with the matureness of the average age in the suburb. This being said I also had the understanding the crime rates were low in summer hill so this should be rewarded with acknowledging that this public furniture does not need to be made out of a cheap plastic in case it gets vandalized, instead it is made of a rather expensive wood for the suburb to enjoy.

Matthew Patane

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peer comments

my 5 peer comments
Lubar Han
http://lubar-han.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/studio-assignment-2-rationale-booklet.html?showComment=1336953667368#c7700820804408473589

Olivia Qiuyuan LIN

http://haresama.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/project-2-medical-packaging-for.html?showComment=1336953927212#c6018990049773587797

dominic see

http://dominicsee.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/project-2-packaging-rationale-booklet.html?showComment=1336954246617#c8912475008982732597

sarah howard

http://sarahoward1031.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/studio-responsible-packaging.html?showComment=1336973514908#c8539272208675540374

Rowena Goodall

http://rowenagoodall.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/sparkler-packaging-rational-booklet.html

Project 2 final

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Matthew Patane
student number: 3377299

video review. who killed the electric car?

who killed the electric car?, a film released in 2006 by chris payne. This film goes on to explain why the electric car did not become a success, despite all its very positive qualities in comparison to petrol cars. The main car they target and look at is the EV-1 but this video goes onto explain how despite something being a great design it can still be highly disapproved due to consumers AND mostly what the big companies already want.

The key factor in this is how the electric car will essentially save the environment but how this was not accepted due to the big companies wanting to keep profits up. Some of the kye issues to why the electric car did not go ahead with was because of consumer acceptance, skeptics, oil industry funding media to go against electric vehicles, advertising from competition, supply and demand, limitations of the product, too difficult to kick start the category of cars, federal government lack of support and most of all it being a threat to the oil companies resulting in a provoked war of david vs golliath.

Alot of the american consumers were worried about the risk. Some companies like General motors would only talk about the limitations of the car....for example it can only do between 60 and 80 miles on one charge.....most consumers dont realise that this is more than enough for what somebody needs for one day, but because they realise that is less than a petrol car it already inspires people more to get the petrol, this resulted in less people wanting the car and hence resulting in a lower supply and demand.

When the supply and demand was low it resulted in less funding for the vehicle, meaning the vehicle would cost more, this resulted in another key factor to why people did not want the vehicle.

The other largest downside is that for the electric car to go ahead it would be going against competition much bigger than it can handle, the competition would be throwing an endless amount of money into proving that petrol is the way to go.

Of all the video's i have watched for the duration of this course i have actually admired this single one the most, it covers a topic that i admire, but more importantly it targets the reality of design, in the fact that just because a design is good and better than the rest, does not mean it will be more successful than the rest, it has the big key issue that it is up against forces much stronger than it, along with that it is the whole factor of "change" that makes it more difficult, the good side is that because of this technology and its ability we know that eventually the design WILL go ahead, maybe by a different company but eventually it will be accepted as we can not constantly rely on petrol and non renewable resources. In the end it all comes down to where the big companies can earn the most money from.

Video blog B

Giving packaging new life
Very straight forward to the point, although in today's day in age majority of designers and even the average joe already know these recycling facts. that being said there are some things said such as the methods used to recycle them that people to not know about, if these were described in more detail it would be better. It is VERY good how they have the video following the process of what is happening, when these methods are just verbally said to somebody they do not understand them, but when a video of the process is shown it makes it much easier to understand.
i did find the recycling of plastics the most interesting video as there is a different method of recycling for each individual plastic.
the statistical fact at the end also comes in useful as it gives the viewer a vivid understanding of how good or bad this technique is as it usually explains how commonly it is done.

How its made
Cardboard boxes: did not mind the video, already know most of it, all except for how the "flute" was made, along with that i was not aware of some of the terminology. I was also incredibly impressed at what rate they all shoot out at.

packaging tubes: was interested about the "aluminum slugs" i always thought it was fed in at a pellet or grain like form, melted, and then molded.  i am truely amazed by forcing the tube out into that shape. I would think that it would require too much energy to push it out like that, but now that i think about it i suppose it would use more energy than having to melt the thing. i really liked this video, i learnt alot

aluminium cans: was and have been for a long time highly aware of this method. i have always found it most interesting how the machine will do its job of punching it, then all the excess material is sent back to the melting factory, ints just interesting how this material is always being sent too and from just to save money, that being said it VERY good that the material is not simply being thrown out. most implressed by the rate of whiche the cans are made, 1800 hundred cans per minute, amazing.

plastic bottles: i have known this method for a long time, and knowing that PET bottles are used very commonly in this world it is a reality that this method is very commonly used. i learnt MORE about this method in my materials and tech C class. what i find most interesting is the size of the preforms before they are blown out. again impressed by the rate they are made. Something else i like most about this is that we can not actually think of another method that can make these as cheap, as strong, and as recycleable and yet staying at the same production rate, clearly one of the most reputable production methods

glass bottles: my MOST favourable factor of this is that glass can be recycled infinite times, it makes this a truelly renewable resource. the way how the hot globs of glass are thrown through so quickly is amazing, although glass is a great RENEWABLE material, and it has its many positive properties when manufacturing, i can already tell that making plastic bottles would be significantly cheaper, i can tell first just by how hot the flobs get, that is alot of energy that needs to be used, resulting in a very high cost.

tetrapak: i have not known much about tetrapak as i never really had an interest in them. i always thought they were not ENTIRELY reusable, but when i found out that the entire tetrapak is made from recyclable materials i found interesting. It does look like a very costly method of manufacturing, i also found it od how there was more hands on labour intensive work rather than having the entire system automated. i always thought the layers get melted together but when i saw that they just get forced together by rollers i found significantly interesting. not my favourite production method but still very interesting

CAD drawings redo2

CAD drawings redo

Peer comments

jimmy iraheta
http://ides1031-z3332715.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/plant-storage.html?showComment=1332752072999#c4097270946501768689

Rachael Sigley

http://rachaelsigley.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/final-design-poster.html?showComment=1332752525693#c8547374127302289216

Benjamin ma

http://mabenjamin.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/crown-umbrella-rack.html?showComment=1332752789877#c2448885500684906711

Sarah howard

http://sarahoward1031.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/inspiration-and-ideas-two.html?showComment=1332752988069#c5688703440423466834

Patrick Dunn

http://patrickdunnindustrialdesign.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/normal.html?showComment=1332753163287#c2501260474668229655

The Vert plant

Rationale

The storage system I have designed and created was the vertplant. This design is influenced in its own biomorphic and biometric ways. Many cliff sides have plants continuing to survive even though they are in such hard to reach places.

When I was thinking of what people in high density housing may need I realized that due to lack of outdoor area and soil they tend to lack their necessary home grown produce, especially for things such as herbs and other additives to meals. This led to me wanting to think of a method of growing their own produce, yet making the most of little area.

When doing my research on high density housing I notice it usually consists of 1-3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 kitchen, 1 TV/dining area, and a small balcony. Of all these areas I gathered that the balcony is the area that gets the most sunlight. From knowing this I knew where the placement of the produce had to be, the balcony.

I then had to figure out a way to make the most space of this balcony area. I then discovered plants that grow up cliffs, vertically, they make the most out of little area yet are still available to get the necessary sunlight and water, and this gave me the idea of a vertical plantation.

After looking at cliff sides with more depth, I discovered numerous biometric methods I could adopt. I noticed how a lot of the plants throughout the cliff tend to share the same soil, I added this to my design as it allows the plants to share nutrients and share water easier. From looking at cliff sides I also noticed that plants get all their sunlight from being hung over, using this I discovered that the exact same method can be used in a balcony area. Then I also noticed how water tends to drip down the side of the cliff, one way or another managing to get to every plant, I then adopted this method for my own design, allowing all the plants to get their water from dripping off from other plants.

When it came to biomorphism I used the method within a cliff of the plants being vertical, another crucial thing that I noticed is that the location of the plants are generally randomized, depending on the flow of the water, due to this I made the location of the plants on my design rather random to suite the feel of a cliff side. I had also noticed that the rock formation on the sides of the cliff, although the plants need soil to grow, the cliff needs rock to stay upright, so using this aspect I added some rock like formation on the side to give a feel of biomorphism. 

An inconvenient truth- video reflection

The world and where we live is constantly changing, sometimes for the good and a lot of the time for the bad. Not many people seem to take notice of this but the facts are that we need to take a stronger notice of this as the world around as is changing and a lot of this has to do with our doings. The earth is getting damaged as we are using it and if we continue at the current rate it will get to a point beyong our capable repair. One crucial fact is that as we are damaging the earth more and more we are limiting how much we can predict about the earth and its environment.

This video demonstrates how the earth is changing and how it is our fault. It is truelly amazing the effects we have on this earth. I have always had some knowledge of the changing world especially global warming, but I have never fully understood it, as I don’t think anybody will fully understand it. The way al gore states the complete and utter facts, and how amazing some of these facts are truly amazing shows how crucial it is that we all start taking action in fixing up our own mess.

When Al gore was describing the carbon dioxide increasing and how he was describing everything he had been doing to try and make us more aware of global warming really suprized me, not as he did a lot of work, but more on the topic that everything he had done to try and help the environment had been refused or denied, this shows society’s lack of care for what is actually happening, the biggest worry is that they will only begin to care when this problem can no longer be fixed. If these events of changes happening to the earth do not begin to become recognized then us humans will reach a catastrophe, it MUST be a reality that the earth is constantly changing.

This entire documentary is very important, for everybody’s field of work, but the fact is that everyone as a whole should have a great understanding of this. One of the most important things we should all take notice of is Al Gore’s future projections…..these projections may or may not come true, but his understanding and statistics that made him come up with these projections are all very true, hence we should all prepare ourselves and dramatically fix our act, and most of all, hope that Al Gore is wrong.

It is crucial to understand how important change is, but when something comes into play to alter how the change should be can really cause UNPREDICTABLE problems, it is and inconvenient truth knowing the situation we are reaching and we should start accepting how crucial it is for us to accept the required change and to prevent ourselves from damaging the change line.