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| MAS ETH ARCH/CAAD - 2005/06 - STUDENT PAGES Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture, Specialization in Computer Aided Architectural Design | 065-0005/6 Supervision: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt, Philipp Schaerer Chair of CAAD, ETH Zurich phase Ibuilding a prototype within a few days > > > plexi shellproposalsfirst thoughts about the design > > > creating 3 variationsthe designs in the very beginning tried to be as simple as possible. two prototypes had to be build within a few days and were only designed to be used at an one-day test. we wanted to think about different materials and create varying atmospherical effects with them. the plexi stands for a 'techy' appearence while the wood/leather design wants to evoke an 'ancient feeling'. however, we chose the plexi and tried to keep the details simple considering the very short time... productionbuilding the prototype > > > bending plexi by heatwe lasered white plexi sheets by a cnc laser and bent the pieces by heat. most of the work was done by hand. here you can see an abstract presentation of the bending process. we built kind of a wooden mould to shape the plexi. resultplexi shell > > > final prototypesin the end we had two quite good looking prototypes. the nokia phone and the gps advice were just sticked in and fixed by stripes of felt. -- NDSMartinTann - 24 Jul 2006
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