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H-eat Fierce IPoS J-roll

Archi tecture Personal 3D

H-eat

60 hours

Carte Blanche

Apply a user-centered methodology to design a product of our own choosing.

The product has to be consistent with its use, users and environment.

Bring desirability, sense and emotion with form, materials and colour to the product.

Deliverables: Moodboard, video, A3 posters and a model (CAD or traditional)

H-eat

«... allows you to bring your home-cooked meal prepared in advance, to work, and enjoy it warm at noon»

Creating a Moodboard was the first step in this project.

The target audience is a working female character in her 30s who is sensitive to ecological ways of living - biking or taking public transport to work, making delicious home made food from local sources, but who also cares about style and appearance.

Through research and sketches I wanted to explore how to make a stylish lunchbox that could reheat the dish made at home.

Having in mind that part of the meal could be a salad or something that didn’t need reheating I chose to make different stackable compartments and having a cloth or leather sleeve to transport them. The final result was a prototype made of cardboard and simili leather. It is made of 3 compartments for food and a heatplate that are stacked in a sleeve that can be folded into a bag-like form with a handle for transportation.

Fierce

60 hours

Wrist watch

Design: Attractive, audience-targeted and portable

Design: Feasible, nestable, waterproof and repairable

Movement: ETA 2892A2, automatic mechanical or RONDA normtech 6003.D, analog quartz

Display: By hands: hours, minutes and seconds date with date disc

Shape: Opening round dial

Attachments: 4 horns with bars

Strap: Soft, leather or elastomer

Materials: Metals

Glass: Mineral or sapphire glass

Creating a Moodboard was the first step in this project. The target audience is strong female characters who seek raw and fierce, rather than refined and diamond embedded designs.

Through several sketches, we chose to make a statement watch bezel of hammered rose gold. That decision had an impact on the overall design of the watch, as seen on the detail above. The diameter of the watch is also slightly larger than most women’s watches (40mm) and we chose the mechanical automatic movement.

The dial is made of green aventurine and the watchband is made of grey leather.

IPoS

60 hours

Imagine and design a table lamp made of polypropylene.

As this material cannot be glued, find other ways to assemble the various parts.

The lamp base has to be made in harmony with the rest of the lamp.

Deliverables: Model

Table lamp

Seascapes, Hiroshi Sugimoto

The first thing I did on this project was to imagine what kind of mood I wanted to create with the lamp, through word research and sketching.

Extensive trials with paper folding followed, and the final form was found through several iterations. A few adjustments were made when trying the foldings with polypropylene of different thicknesses to obtain the right lightning and atmosphere.

The final model was precisely folded with the help of a pattern made on Illustrator, which was then slightly cut on the material with a laser cutter.

The base of the lamp was sketched on paper, then CAD modelled and finally hand-made with dense foam. It was painted black and assembled with the rest of the parts and mirrors the pattern of the folds.

«We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.»

Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

J-roll

60 hours

Automatic Girolle

Design an automatic «girolle» (special swiss cheese slicer) in collaboration with the CNIP (Centre Neuchâtelois d’Insertion Professionnelle) and based on Mr. Laurent Hirt’s patent.

Deliverables: CAD model and plans, A3 posters

- Une base contient le dispositif entraînant une demi-meule de tête de moine

- Un plateau soutient le fromage, qui est embroché en son centre par une tige

- Une double lame est située au-dessus du fromage est permet de faire deux rosettes à la fois

- Une poignée permet d’appuyer afin de faire une rosette

- Le tout est mis en marche à l’aide d’un bouton

This project being based on a patent, the first step was to study the patent and defining which parts to work with and how. As we were collaborating with the CNIP, there were technical aspects to consider, as they wished to be able to manufacture everything in their workshops.

13 pied 4

12 bouton 1

11 clavette 1

10 Forme_moteur 1

9 support moteur 1

8 Moteur_65rpm 1

7 Poignee_1 1

I chose to make the handle the main point of focus of the project, and keeping everything around simple to highlight that specific part. The base is made of aluminium and the plate and blade are made of stainless steel.

6 Lame 1

5 Fromage 1

4 Plateau 1

3 Tige 1

2 Fond 1

1 Base 1

The rod that pierces through the cheese passes through the handle and might hurt the users hand if they are not careful. A see-through handle allows the rod to be visible and see its progression as the cheese is cut lower and lower.

As everything is swiss made for a swiss product, the handle is inspired by typically swiss concepts. The Alps were the first choice, then followed by the profile of a cow and the façade of the abbey where the cheese is produced.

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