componant 1 [6 slides]- Jay Marchant

Primary research Jay Marchant

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Here I am looking for inspiration in natural formations. Most of the time natural formations look messy and random, But here the crystals have a near regular geometric pattern. The contrast between their geometric shapes and random arrangement create an interesting form to learn from.

The cubic model is based on a common crystal formation

Museum of zoology Cambridge

I simplified the shape of the Fibonacci spiral in the shell in this model

At the museum of zoology in Cambridge there was an array of sea life exhibits showing many different shells. Sea life can seem very alien with many strange shapes and structures such as corral, sponges or shells. In my opinion the shells have the most intriguing shape so ill be taking inspiration from then as a potential design .

Combining the shapes could make an interesting shape and would create an appropriate solution for separating the studio from the library.

Other natural forms Here I had attempted to make a rubbing if tree bark to capture their unusual patterns. I am going to develop these ideas to find something new.

Then I traced the rubbing creating contours and finding any closed shapes that I thought looked interesting. Now I am going to refine this tracing into useable shapes.

Trees and plants I have taken the geometric patterns of the bark and sketched them out onto white card. Now with this new pattern I will cut shapes out of the card in order to create a form based on the interesting structure.

The grooves in this tree bark are evenly spread out and somewhat parallel. This creates an interesting pattern

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