Developing Ideas (The Object Lesson)

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For this session we were asked to pick an object from a box and try to develop new ideas based on what we comes to our mind when viewing the object.

The object I chose is what appears to be a perfume bottle. I started by writing down everything that came to my mind when holding and looking at the bottle. The texture of the bottle was a bumpy and it was a round shape and the first thing that I thought of was how a pumpkin looked so I drew that. I then developed he drawing to make it look more like a building structure. I also tried to incorporate the original idea of a flower to the drawing as well.

I continued  to feel the object and noticed it has a glass or glass-like material that it was made out of which made me realize that I hadn't given proper thought to the materials and sustainability aspect that I will have to eventually work on so I began to research building materials that were specifically useful for round buildings. I got the usual materials such as glass, concrete and wood but I also came across a material that was new to me which is called Superadobe. Superadobe is mostly used for curved designs and takes its inspiration from traditional earth architecture, it uses sandbags filled with moist soil from the earth and arranges them in layers, it is said to be very ideal for dome shaped buildings (Montjoy, 2022). I also tried to research what materials I could also use for my 3D model such as clay, foam, plastic, wood and so on.

I had a hard time drawing new ideas during the lesson so I attempted more during my self study.

The first drawing took inspiration from the bumpy texture on the bottle and I also used it as the inspiration for the petals

 

 
 
I played around with the bottle a bit, turning it upside down and the shape of it upside down also gave me an idea.
 

I also thought about my colour scheme for the building, thinking of incorporating warmer colours such as brown, dark reds and burnt orange. 


References

Montjoy, V. (2022). The Comeback of Curved Design: Materials That Can Bend and Curl. [online] ArchDaily. Available at: https://www.archdaily.com/977895/the-comeback-of-curved-design-materials-that-can-bend-and-curl [Accessed 12 Apr. 2024].


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