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LIMITATIONS REFLECTION

There were a few hurdles that we came across when prototyping and designing. The first big hurdle for us was cost. We decided to go with 6x6 Tasmanian oak timber lengths to create our prototype model and we soon figured out that the material was quite expensive. We used it quite sparingly so this limited us to the amount of precise and accurate prototyping methods that we could experiment with so we didn’t want it to go to waste. We used different kinds of material like pine and balsa wood for prototyping different joints and connections. We saved all of the Tasmanian oak for the final design. Another limitation that we came across was like I mentioned before, the accessibility to inside or on to the sculpture so that people could make use of it rather than just look at it. It would be a missed opportunity if we were to create something that looked really beautiful, that couldn’t be enjoyed by the people that would be living and working around it. Why not live and work in it? Or under it? So we took this as a lesson and an opportunity to change it and create something that could work as a sculpture and also as something like a room or space. We experimented with a few different composition, but in hindsight we realised that we didn’t experiment enough. We came up with a composition that reflected what we wanted, some sort of negated form being taken out of the cube, but it just presented as a sculpture and not as something that was user friendly, or readily available for human use. It looked really cool when looking at it, but why not walk in it? Why not sit in it? Why not use it as a collaborative work space, study space, spot to eat lunch or have a coffee? There was so may opportunities that we could have missed. The design and design process that we came to and went through really made a good foundation for where we needed to end up with the final design. We had our joint connection after a series of prototypes, we had our overall basic shape, we just needed to decide on some sort of unique form to put in, or take out of the guts to create something different to put into the university’s campus.