[2 vehicles ] letting our modified lanterns go!!!

#2 the short lantern

With this lantern i made it so it was alot shorter than when it had come out of the package and thought it would be interesting to see how this will go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GPz0MyJKGE&feature=g-upl

This pretty much failed as it couldn't catch enough heat to let itself fly to the sky.

#3 The directional lantern

This lantern I wanted to see if i could control the direction of the lantern to make it go where i wanted it to go. Done with a piece of wire so that it won't burn off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlKfFeIJ_DU&feature=g-upl

One problem was that the wire wasn't long enough and the other was the it would probably go where the wind lead it rather than my piece of wire.

#3 The half seaweed half paper lantern

This lantern was a success as it had enough air, the wind was very nice to it and the seaweed was light and air tight enough to lift itself up.

The only thing however my attempt to not let it fly off so much failed and the tugging of the wire lead the fire to get too close to the paper.

(Sorry for the chinese in the background, was communicating with the person holding the lantern )



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2isSGOuEkt0&feature=g-upl


Pretty much failed, for many reasons such as the large amount of space that needed to be heated up while only having a small piece of lighting, and the wind.

Fun to experience, hope you'll enjoy

[2 vehicles] testing of material - rice paper

Rice paper is stretchy when wet and has a glue-ish type feature to it so it will be easy to mould into a shape for our 'Modified Lantern' and it is quite light as well. This means that instead of having extra weight from the framing, we could easily use rice paper to shape it into the form we want.

                                                      before

after

'trying' to handle with care

The only bad thing about this is that it must be handled with care and after drying, it will be come very brittle and easy to break.

FIRE PROOF?

when becoming too close to the heat, the rice paper bubbles up and becoming an even more brittle source of material. But the good thing is it does not easily catch on fire.

Task 1a - 123d-catch 2 objects

documentation of nature (2 vehicles)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbZ3RGN9B9k&feature=plcp

[2 STAIRS] Initial concept

INSIDE OUTSIDE

We wanted to have a set of stairs that would be relaxing, but at the same time, fun and challenging for the travellers. Something that they would not normally eperience in other hotels.

The bumpyness of the ground gives something extra for the visitor, so that they get a feeling of the outdoors while being indoors-hence the name, Inside Outside. By creating 'tunnels' inside the stair itself adds to the fun part giving a leisurely atmosphere- which would be the exact reason for coming to this get-away hotel amongst the busy and noisy streets of the city.

Trip to Waiheke

On the 5th of August we went on a trip to Waiheke Island as part of our stairs and site exploration and research. We met at the pier at around 9:30 and got our tickets ready to board the ferry for our trip to Waiheke!

Our trip on the ferry got us spending 40 mins on a rocky boat and a very windy platform.
On the ferry, we looked at the stairs that were on the ferry and the parts we thought was interesting.

Upon arriving at Waiheke Island we were only given a few moments till we had to board a bus to go down to the beach for our very first task that we had to complete.

Unfortunately, because we only had two people in our group, we were split up to go to other teams. Here we met our client Cam and were supposed to create a set of stairs using the limited amount of material on the beach (and some chocolate as bribery!).

We got some stones from Cam as part of our reward for making such a unique set of stairs :)

In the end, becuase of the limited time given we weren't able to finish off our stairs but still came runner up!

After the stairs, Mike and Judy gave us their comments on our stairs and we had move off for our next task.

On the way to Mike's house, we had to count while climbing up the 170 (or was it 190) stairs. It was VERY tiring but the scenery was so worth it!

Finally lunch! Approximately half the group went on a trip into the forest to experience the utopian atmosphere and half stayed back to organise the food.

After lunch Mike showed us how to make cement and talked about the amazing project that he was going to complete with our help.

Finally, all work was finished, we headed out for the bus to catch the ferry!

Bye Waiheke, it was a tiring but fun day :)

[peer review] Neo studio

We reviewed Neo Studio's work of the 'Travelling between two platforms'. They showed us two stairs, one which was called the scissors stair (Garden city) and 2 in 1 stair (Crumbling city). For both stairs they experimented with a range of random geometric shapes to form a whole which would become their stair.

For the 2 in 1 stair they wanted to make it multifunctional to that other than having the use of transportation between two levels, it could also be used such as a table, a space where people can hang out, and/or for storage. They showed on the diagram that if the stairs were to be taken apart, they would form a geometrically square table that could be used in any form of way and people/objects could occupy the rest of the space.

For the scissor stairs, they wanted to create a sense of relaxation and a very smooth integration with the environment that they were going to inhabit so they used water as apart of their design. To put the idea of smooth integration into their design, the material that they used was stone/pebble with water flowing down it to create a walking track that would lead the travellers to their hotel.

As for their hotels, the garden city will be individual huts/lodges and the ruined city will have a road going through their hotels so that apart of the city will be included in the hotel as well.

Neo studio's work was very clean and to the point so it was not hard to identify what was going on even if the group was not around to show us.