3D Rotation - Day 1

On the first day of 3D rotation, we were told to draw random scribbles or a favourite item of clothing. We had to draw this with a felt tip so that it was permanent and we couldn't alter or erase our marks. After we drew what was asked of us, we were then told to turn what we have drawn into something else. For example I drew a pair of jeans as my favourite item of clothing and had to turn it into a chair. I found this activity difficult but fun and rewarding as it requires quite a lot of imagination to turn a piece of clothing such as a pair of jeans into a functional object such as a chair and I felt satisfied when I actually managed to complete the task.

We were then set the task to design and build a structure that could hold and withstand the weight of a water bottle and hold it freely 20cms off the ground using only one sheet of A1 paper. To complete this task I decided to take advantage of the strength of cylindrical tubes, as paper is stronger when it is rolled up. So i rolled half of the paper into a large tube and the used the rest of the paper to create smaller tubes to go within the larger tube for added strength, then last i added the remaining paper as a lid to the tube. I found this difficult with just a single A1 piece of paper as i would have preferred to have more tubes within the large one.

When we returned from lunch we were set an even more strenuous task to do which would involve designing and creating another structure, however this time, one which could withstand and hold a humans body weight and hold them 40cms above the ground however, this time we could only use 4 sheets of cardboard. Part of the design brief of our structure was that it had to be flat-packed like a piece of furniture from IKEA, so that it could be folded away and put under a certain height object like a cupboard.

I went about creating my structure by doing a similar design that I done with my paper structure, however the cardboard does not roll up like paper does due to its thickness, so I had to create a triangle shape from it on it's side and then use the remaining cardboard to add a lid to it so that i wouldn't fall through the middle of the triangle structure. 

I then went to test out my structure by standing on it. The structure held my weight well, but the longer i stood on it, the weaker it became until finally it collapsed and broke, making the structure unfixable. However, for a period of time it did hold my body weight off the ground 40cms so I feel i completed the task.