askı&sepet by Hande Tekin

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design meets handicap

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Abstract Excursion Market References Ideation Mockup

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Production Technical Drawing Abstract Adambrau Volkskunstmuseum Source Material Ideation Era1 Era2 Mockups

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Production Technical Drawing Bibliography

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SS 21/22 professors: Hackl Klaus Festi Giacomo Berrone Riccardo project: Hande Tekin

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Abstract

When design meets handicap what possibilites are emerging? Is handicap in the realisation of design, in the production? Or it’s emerging when you are using it? Handicap; unfavorable statement, obstacle. Everyone have this in their life, even nature have. But it keeps produce with redesigning the process. And producing which is more efficient, handy, capable. In this project case handicap’s location was different. They were in Latsch and Prad. At the same time possibilties emerged from this location. Sepet is designed to collect things. “Sepet” means “basket” in Turkish. Inspired from traditional royal basket of England “Sussex Trug”. It’s suitable to collect newspapers, magazines, fruits and random objects in your home that you could not find a place to put. It’s silhouette stays as romantic but industrialized as possible. It has geomterically sharp structure. Sepet will define the corner where it stands as “collection corner”. It can be used also while gardening. It’s dimensions are anthropometrcially handy and practical. Sepet’s pecularity is about it’s components in production pro-cess. It is consists of a skeleton of wooden stripes and 6 surfaces which you can create with tablesaw. Surfaces will just lean on structure. It’s main purpose is to have a product which is acts as main character but also you can create in minutes.

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Excursion Latsch and Prad This excursion is sets the main parameters of project. Parameters like resources, human work, production method and marketing is draw a path for me to define the product. This excursion was answering questions like “Who will produce our product? Who will use it? “ in the beginning of design steps. Products could be used by workshop itself or it could be open for free market. Being open for market and their potential on the market showed potential of the production power here. The uniqeness of every client here expanded my vision and we questioned how to make enrich the value, collection they are making.

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Market References Side by Side

Side by Side is collection that lead us in product language. It also set a scale of products simplicity and dimension. Side by Side is also great example to shows how to cooperate with people with disabilites, how to manage production, how to keep up with collection and what should be the difference from the products that already exist.

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English Sussex Trug As a designer, my market research was on gardening tools. because gardens in latsch and tools about gardening made me think of the potential and variaty it have. And one specific product draw my attention with it’s story while I’m doing market research. With silhouette and with singularity. It’s called English Sussex Trug. It’s product which is not made for very complicated task. It have 3 main usage which is, collecting, carrying, storing. In first I could link these tasks with workshops in excursion. It have practical utility and ornamental value. This value in it’s silhouette it’s already telling you story about old English romance. This story added another background. It’s sold in market from 12€ to 78€ from different sizes and different qualities.

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Production of Trugs Sussex Trug is the combination of the two native British woods; sweet chestnut and willow. Yet, although looking perfect paired together, these two woods are notoriously difficult to work with, so trug-making is therefore a highly-skilled craft. In total there is 6 steps to create sussex trug. Cleaving Chestnut: Basically creating straight poles of chestnut. Shaving Chestnut: It is important all the rough edges of the handle and rim are removed to produce a smooth and comfortable surface for carrying. Steaming Chestnut: Which is done by placing the chestnut in a steamer for about ten – fifteen minutes. Bending Chestnut: Bending the supple wood around an old wooden ‘former’, a type of wooden template. Preparing Willow and correcting thickness and sanding. Steaming Board: Like the chestnut, the willow boards are put through the steamer or are soaked in very hot water so that they become supple. With it’s expensive materials and steps which need expensive workshops and in time wise it’s really expensive product and hard to create.

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Ideation Transform

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Based on the silhouette of the Sussex trug, I went the way of simplifying the form. I smoothed out every curved line and turned every rounded corner into angled corners, for simple geometric shapes. While doing this, I made sketches of Sepet’s production.

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Mockup

I can say that I learned a lot until I came to this model. I calculated the hand position of the basket, its closeness to the body, and the comfort of carrying it. The angle and size of the surfaces greatly affected the comfort of carrying. In addition, the width, length and angle of the feet had to be optimally designed. There had to be a harmony between the angle of the surfaces and the angle of the legs. Secondly, the way the surfaces were joined was important. In this model I made from mdf, I could not apply many varieties due to the material properties. The surfaces were simply glued together. Another problem brought about by the fact that it was made of MDF was that the side guards did not look aesthetically pleasing. The lack of protection also made it difficult in terms of ease of use. That’s why I decided to make it from real wood in order to overcome these difficulties and to really apply the joint details. 14

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Sepet

The basket is here with its original form, original material! It’s silhouette stays as romantic but industrialized as possible. It’s suitable to collect newspapers, magazines, fruits and random objects in your home. It’s silhouette stays as romantic but industrialized as possible. It has geomterically sharp structure. Now It’s possible to apply the joint details I wanted with original material which is called spruce.In this way, it was very easy to assemble after the parts were obtained. When I interlock each other together. I simply place them in the skeleton I created. Sepet’s pecularity is about it’s components in production process. It is consists of a skeleton of stripes and 6 surfaces which you can create in minutes 18

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Production Material Spruce Wood Spruce is light and elastic at the same time. That is why the wood is also particularly suitable for use in construction. Spruce wood shrinks moderately and has excellent strength after careful drying With simple cuts with table saw from a complete rectangle, you can get all parts except the legs. You can divide it into thicknesses of 10mm and 20mm, and then you can start assembly directly. For the legs laser cut can be used. 410 235

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Exploded Drawing

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side protection 1

right leg 2

right leg 1

handle

back surfaces

surface protection

front surface 1

side protection 2

front surface 2

left leg 1

front surface 3

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Technical Drawing

all dimensions are in mm scale 1/10

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Abstract

When we ‘make’ meet design with handicap, we learned how to fit into the handicap. And it came out to learn how to do it simple, how to fit for handmade production. Even some of us have more handicaps we both are still able to produce art, product. We tried to enrich the possibilities by fitting into handicaps and focusing on peoples life whom spend their time making art and producing products. While doing this, we also encountered handicaps. In Askı’s case handicap was gravity. Askı is obtaining to live a life at the edge of the table thanks to gravity. But at the same time gravity was waiting for her to drop somehow. It survived by adapting to the dimensions of the table, its surface, and gravity. And it now belongs to restaurants, libraries. It can live up to its own purpose. It can present people with important numbers and data about their systems and carry their bags. Which links humans belongings and system of the place. Askı is product that acts like a tool made of wood and also has a character as much as a furniture. Askı is coming from Turkish which means “hanger”. It is a product where you can keep your handbag in a safe place and at the same time keep up with the system of the place where it is located. It consists of three cuboid parts in total and is connected to each other in different directions and adapts to physics.

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ADAMBRAU Since 2005, aut. architektur und tirol has been located in the brew of the former Adambräu brewery, a structure by the Tyrolean architect Lois Welzenbacher originating from the 1920s. The emblematic classic modernist industrial building was placed under landmark status after brewery operations ended and adapted between 2000 and 2004 by the architects’ collective of köberl + giner & wucherer_ pfeifer (Rainer Köberl, Thomas Giner, Erich Wucherer and Andreas Pfeifer) for aut and the University of Innsbruck’s Archive for Architecture The archive uses its space of 800 m2 for both its permanent collection and for visiting exhibitions. The collection contains architectural bequests, specific projects, company archives, photo collections, publications, models and similar materials, the main emphasis being on classical modern architecture. After the First World War. The image of Austria truly changed . After this histroic event archive is focused on development of modern architecture and engineering in the central Alpine region, focussing on Tyrol, South Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Trentino from the 19th century onwards. Hans Walter Müller’s Exhibiton Hans-Walter Müller is an architect and an engineer. Born in Worms in 1935, he studied at the Technical University in Darmstadt and from 1961 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Here the visionary and passionate magician found his artistic home in the movement of kinetic art. He created the Gonflables (Inflatables), plastic frame constructions tensioned by pressurized air There was big exhibiton of him airthe exhibition at offers an insight into his work with photos, films and objects, as well as a volume with sound and projection specially developed for the rooms. At first I did not like the usage of plastic but in these era plastic did not seem an enemy of our earth. So later I let go my prejudice and focused on the works. We had so much information about features of inflatable structures, architectural components, building process. Inflatable structures are like living organisms 31

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Volkskunstmuseum We found one of the most important collections of cultural assets from the European region of Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino. A multimedia show also impressively conveys the history of the Hofkirche and Emperor Maximilian I. Since the former County of Tyrol (North, South and East Tyrol as well as Trentino) was already the focus of the antiques trade in the 19th century, the collection objective was expanded: pre-modern, pre-industrial objects of the “old Tyrolean applied arts” and crafts, domestic trades and domestic industry , as well as farming implements - if they were richly decorated - were now also acquired. To this day, historical Tyrol – today’s European region of Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino – is the regional focus. Even after the collection became the property of the Chamber of Commerce (today: Chamber of Commerce), it was successively expanded. Cribs, parlors and traditional costumes as well as handicrafts, household crafts and religious art became core areas. The classical philologist Karl Radinger (1869-1921) was responsible for making an inventory of the objects for the first time In 1948, the museum defined itself as the “treasure trove of the Tyrolean people” and was intended to become a place of Tyrolean identity. The collection includes agricultural implements, simpler pieces of furniture, chromolithographs, reverse glass paintings and other objects. As industrial design student the way of metal, glass production blow my mind. It was showing enrichness of culture and product design perspective. The details of how metal came out from mold how they joint together was billeteral. Even so products were not left behind for the sake of showing Tyrolean motifs. In the carpentry tools section there was plenty of tools. It made me question the handworking. How useful they are? Are they fit into shape of hand or arm? How they optimized tools to work efficiently? Their shapes were open so many potentials for different functions. While guessing what are they doing and how they are working opened so many possibilities to have in mind.

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Source Material 17-18th c Hand Brace-Bitstock

Middle Ages brought an important drilling innovation when it came to somewhat smaller holes: the “hand brace” or “bitstock”. It introduced for the first time in history - a drilling motion. Both bow drills and augers worked by means of intermittent rotations, and during the short pause in between turns the drill bit had the tendency to get stuck. The C-shaped body of the brace solved this problem. The user turned the handle continuously while exerting downward pressure with the hand. Braces came in many different sizes, with lengths varying from 10 centimetres or less to tools almost half a metre long. The earliest representation of the hand brace dates from 1425, when it appears on a painting by the Flemish artist Robert Campin. From the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century, braces improved only moderately. Early wooden braces were made with bits permanently attached, while later models had crude mechanisms for interchangeable bits. The shape of the tool hardly changed, but there was an evolution in the materials used. 35

Tischlerwerking u. a. Fügen, Innsbruck 17/18 Jh Carpentry tools, Fügen, Innsbruck

Most medieval hand braces were made almost entirely out of wood (sometimes even a naturally curved limb of a tree) with some minor iron reinforcements, and of course - an iron drill bit. Later models were heavily reinforced with metal plates. Some braces were very crude, while others may be considered works of art. The early 19th century “Ultimatum” braces made by William Marples, crafted from japanned ivory or exotic wood (ebony, rosewood) and decorated with engraved and polished brass sidings, were famous for their aesthetic appeal

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Ideation

Brace

Brace’s silhouette become my starting point. There was repetitive “c” shape in all drilling tools. They had same approach while designing which is hold tool easily and performing drilling move wihout giving break/continiously. So I wanted to simplify it and symbolized all of them in one shape. I took the overall lines. Then seperate them in basic geometrical shapes which make sense in the way they joint. Typology of brace have got main C and plus two more components from ends of C shape. Which gives flexibility and moving opportunity. There was two different main era in evolving from being multi-component to being one-piece product.

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Abstraction

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Era 1

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We can say that this era was the first step for this product to gain its identity. Most of the evolution in the first step was actually a phase of trial and error circle. Using the advantages of the place where the product is located, it also tries to acquire the functions that were previously defined there. Searched for mechanical solutions for the Askı to hold on to its place. She would live by the table and his main difference was that he would carry a purse. I’ve tested whether it performs this function better while holding onto the table firmly or when it’s free. Second problemazation was the the production method. Being one massive product was possible in two way. It could be cut-out form one massive block. Or it could be dividing the product from meaningful sections, then assembling it.

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milling clamp

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Clamp Typology

The typology of the clamps greatly influenced the progress of the project. Different clamping methods in different clamp types also change them typologically. Actually, my transition from a simple hand drill to a clamp was made by changing these parameters.Meanwhile, I clearly saw the similarity between the c-shaped clamps and my source product. I mostly researched the products that use this type of clamps.

standing clamp

wooden clamp

hook (C-shaped) clamp

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Market References

I got the inspiration from the working principle of clamps. I swapped out different psrameters and researched products with a clamp-product blend. I looked at the family of products that do not stand on their own, but are holding on something. Different clamping mechanisms and products serving different purposes were quite a lot in the market. The industrial compression method, which I thought is necessary for the product to survive, was one of the most important elements that determined the identity of the product. What functions and which product can I combine in this set? I searched for answers to questions such as what functions would suit my source product. The evolution of ideas also developed in this direction. 42

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Era 2

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Askı finds it’s way with revisions leading to simplfy the all process. It needed to be more basic and calm. It was time to get rid of from all extentions and components and stand as one solid piece. Through era 2 Askı evolved a lot also to be Askı. Since design process is not always linear it had circular process. There was two problemezation in this era: First one was to be able to stand in the edge of table by itself, without any screw or compressive element. In this way it’s easier to produce for clients in workshop. And it’s more cheaper to not supply another screw mechanism which is not available in workshops. Plus people won’t wait for transportation and supply chain. The solution for this problem was to try different dimensions and play with pyshics. Optimizing the thickness and length of the component on the top was tricky part. Second problemazation was the the production method. Being one massive product was possible in two way. It could be cut-out form one massive block. Or it could be dividing the product from meaningful sections, then assembling it.

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Market References

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In the market research to understand how purse hooks are used and how it works. My aim was to make a portable tool without damaging the table of the bussines. That’s why I did the research in this direction. The typology of the hooks, how they stuck on the table was my starting point for designing. First, I tried to understand how it physically works by watching the video. In which cases it falls and in which cases it is more robust, I sought answers to such questions. The working principle of these hooks is explained by the application of two F’s in opposite directions. An F applied from the table to the hook and an F coming from the exact same axis in the opposite direction. For this, it was necessary to balance the force applied by the bag with the force exerted by the table. In my market research, I saw one-piece hook systems that do this and work in different ways.

F Friction with additional rubber.

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Mockups

Era 1

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One-piece Mockup

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We can say that this mockup is the last moment of Askı’s development as a product. We see where it positions itself and where it belongs. This product, which consists entirely of one piece, is formed by cutting a single block of wood in one direction. Askı’s motto was; small low tech living. This mockup was made at a stage where the user relationship at the time of use was questioned, how it is positioned while living at the table. Apart from being a hanger, I added different functions to increase what connects it to the restaurant or the library. I made the top more useful by making a small cut to add a QR code or a sign. Thus, it has a stronger place against its competitors in the market. Problemazation; Can we understand why and how it is used when we first meet Askı at the table? Is it easy to hang our bag and take something from it after hanging it? Does it stay stable after hanging the bag? Does it cause problems in the operation of the restaurant when there are no customers?And most importantly, does it fall? Unfortunately it did not pass the test in this part. And this had a huge impact on the usefulness of the product. 51

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Long length mockup

In previous case I extended it to solve the falling problem and make the product more stable where it stood. While trying to figure this out, I tried increasing the surface area of the product which is touchig to the table. Thus Askı will o hold on to the table better with more friction in this way. First, I exaggerated this situation and tried the maximum possible. I aimed for larger menus with a longer component. However, in this case, we doubted the space it occupied on the table and decided that less would actually serve the same function on the benefit-loss scale.

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Askı is product that acts like a tool made of wood and also has a character as much as a furniture. It’s dimensions and volume is designed to give optimum efficiency on table and carrying the purse,handbag. It consists of three cuboid parts in total and is connected to each other in different directions and adapts to physics. Tracing potential uses in interface while interacting with object. One parallel slit on the top which can help to trace function of top of the object. It’s telling to slide some piece inside. The second interface subject to angle in the bottom tracing hook typology to hang something on. The angle giving clue to prevent sliding down. In terms of marketing strategy in the object. It adheres to the stereotype that restaurant’s style is natural or might be eclectic. It’s promising to organise tables more than one in one place like restaurant, cafe, market or library. Second tracing market subject is to giving easy solution for belongings of clients. Than it should be sold in bulk directly to businsses.

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It can stylize restaurant, cafe or even bar with natural material. It does not require an extra mechanism to stand on the table. So it won’t damage the table. Without damaging table it provides sustainable system for businesses. When they want to change their interior style, tables, they can use Askı again and again on every surface. Also it’s easy to customize. It provides surfaces in every angle that they can carve, paint. Also it gives practical solution for new kind of menu’s so it reduces the price of changing the menu.

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Production Exploded Drawing

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top component

top joint sticks

middle component

bottom joint sticks

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Materials

Larch Wood The English name Larch ultimately derives from the Latin “larigna,” named after the ancient settlement of Larignum. Like pine, cedar, and spruce, larch lumber is considered softwood. These wood products come from coniferous trees, so they are often in stock and reasonably priced. Durable and insect-resistant, larch also has a very appealing golden color with interesting patterns.

Plexiglass Acrylic, also known as Plexiglass, is a versatile plastic material with a variety of purposes and benefits, available in a spectrum of colors and opacities. the most commonly cited advantage of acrylic is its durability. Despite its lower price point, it is 10 times more impact resistant than glass.

Components can be extracted from a complete rectangle from larch wood in simple geometries as shown. After the pieces are obtained drilling is done in accordance with the sticks to be used. Then the slit made to put the plexiglass is drawn. After drawing, the desired thinning is done with sanding with the rotating sand. 65

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Technical Drawing

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all dimensions are in mm scale 1/2

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Bibliography

excursion photos latsch and prad by laurenz, silvia https://www.sidebyside-shop.com/ http://www.merchantandmakers.com/ how-to-make-a-sussex-trug/ https://solar.lowtechmagazine. com/2010/12/hand-powered-drillingtools-and-machines.html https://aut.cc/en?set_language=enW http://www.galeriedesgaleries.com/en/ invites/hans-walter-muellerWW https://maitech.it/prodotto/plexiglass-estruso-trasparente-1-mm/ https://stock.adobe.com/uk/images/ backgrounds-textures-larch-woodwood-larch-tree-natural-wooden-texture/247728459 https://www.acmeplastics.com/ what-is-acrylic-plexiglass https://discountlumberspokane. com/2019/01/pros-and-cons-ofchoosing-larch-lumber-for-your-project-in-dishman/

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