Jewellery Box

This is my final jewellery box design.  The box is a blur between 2 and 3 dimensional - the black lines are like drawing lines, the shift in angle that they are placed at gives a perceived volume.  They are clipped together with clear perspex to give the illusion of no edge or corners.  I wanted to 3D print the clip to hold the box together and to clip the jewellery onto it.       

Jewellery Box - Development

I am going to change my jewellery box design.  I don't like the aesthetic of the clips I have been making.  I think that clipping lots of elements together is not very effective visually or conceptually.  Also, we are having so many problems with the 3D printer that I cannot see there being any chance of getting this finished in time.  I need to use other materials.   

I want to shift the context of our most commonly perceived box - a cube.  No corners, no edge no volume.   

Jewellery Box - Development

I have decided to try and include my jewellery pieces in my jewellery box.  I am looking at clipping the bracelet together when it is sold, then these clips can build up a box by clipping together also.  I want the clip to be in one piece, the diamond shapes of the bracelet fitting into this.  The clips can form a tree like structure.  Some of the bracelet pieces can stay in the clip to make shelves for other jewellery to sit on.

Jewellery - Development

From the File Review I have taken that the clip I produced was the most interesting looking element.  It looked quite elegant and could be developed into a stand alone piece of jewellery - a necklace perhaps?  For now I would like to continue with the bracelet I was making.
The last piece was a set size due to the angles it was at.  I want the bracelet to be adjustable, so anyone could wear it.  I need the connections to be flexible.
I will still clip parts of playing cards into the bracelet piece.  I don't think the bracelet needs to curve to support this, the card and clip should be strong enough.
The shape is too rectilinear - if it is a 'diamond' card bracelet then maybe the bracelet back can take the same form.  The bracelet back and the card could be more integrated.
What about a reversible bracelet?

 

Crit - File Review

For our file review we had to produce one corner of our jewellery box.  I was looking to combine my details of clips with the idea of a box that is not a box.  I am blurring the edge of the box, creating many lines along the edge to obscure the boundary between interior and exterior.  The conceptual model I made last was of 6 tubes making up each edge.  Where these tubes met they did not print.  Anytime there is an intersection it was not printed.  This negative detail is quite interesting.  It adds to the 'box that is not a box' concept - the points that you expect to be there are not.  While the box I am making suggests a box form, it has none of the functions of a box.  It does not hold objects in it, it does not have a lid.
I have decided to make a box that has many broken lines on each vertical edge.  Where these lines meet I have cut them away - at no point will two lines cross.  These lines will be clipped together.  I have designed a clip that will fit around all these lines, fitting them together at the right angle.  There will be 4 clips plus a base for each corner.  All the corners will be the same.  There will be more lines running across the box that the jewellery can be slid or clipped onto.
FEEDBACK: The clip is the most interesting looking part - it even looks like jewellery.  Why have you switched from a continuous line to broken lines?  Continual line is a stronger image.

Meeting with the Planners

After our file review we had a 'play date' with the 3rd year planning students.  This was organized by our tutors and was to help us form connections with each other.  This may be useful in the future, both within and outside of the school.  We did a finger painting exercise to help us break the ice.  We had to try and convey what we thought the other degree was all about with finger painting.  We were put into small groups of 5 for this.  Within our small group the architect students thought that planning was about looking at the whole of a cities layout, the connections between different elements and the infrastructure to support the city.  This was true - the planners also look at the cultural and social impact of city planning.  They had just come back from a trip to a Marae, looking at the importance of culture and how planning impacts everyday life.  
 The planning students saw architecture mainly as the finished product - the building, usually referred to as something large scale.  Amy drew and talked about how there is many design decisions and thought that goes into a building.  She said that while we see a finished product, there was much thought and process to get there.  It was nice to see that others outside of Architecture school can appreciate what goes into designing.  

3D Printer Testing

As I am looking at making elements that clip together, I need to know how flexible and strong the 3D printed elements can be.  I made a simple clip and tube to fit it around.  The clip is flexible enough to stretch around the tube, but after a while the layers do start to peel.

Jewellery Box - Conceptial Thinking

I have been struggling to find a form and idea that will combine the ideas from my jewellery, details, theorist that I like.  I will create some sketches and conceptual images to help.  I am trying to work out the form and details of the jewellery box.  A box that is not a box...
A box is...
Linear, 3Dimensional, functional, contained, portable, geometric, stationary, closed...
A box that is not a box...
No volume, no edge, no corners, blurred, no form, no function... 

Jewellery Box

Using our details, we had to create one image that would show where we intend on heading with our jewellery box design.  
I had made the outline of box nets out of wire and folded them like you would a box.  When photographed and traced they made an interesting image.  I like how they suggest the shape of a box (a form we all easily recognize) without having any of the functions of a jewellery box.  This shifts the context and our perception of a box.  Maybe the box only has its complete form when it is being used - function creates form? 
I like the graphic nature of this image, as well as the line/sketchiness of it.  The boxes are interesting - particuarly the gaps between the bent wire.  

Detail

We had to find some more building details to help us develop our jewellery and jewellery box.  I looked at two building details by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro (both of stairways) as well as some details that show clipping and interlocking building elements. 
From the stair details by Diller I have taken the philosophy of shifting the context - we have a space for movement that has seats and a space that you expect to be built up that is instead cut down into the material.  I will attempt to shift the context of the box - a box that is not a box?  They use space and materials in such innovative ways.   
The clipping and interlocking of the other details relate back to my jewellery.  Can I include these design elements in the box? 

 

 

  

Jewellery - Development

Our first chance to use a 3D Printer!  I have modeled a way to clip the playing card elements of my bracelet together.  I wanted the cards to still have some semblance of volume, so the clips curve as well.  Each section will be attached to the next by a pin.
The actual printing was not that successful.  One of the surfaces did not print, so the design does not hold together properly.  The bracelet elements would be to fiddly for the wearer to put together, and only one size can be made.  More development is needed.