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Esther and Jae's Piece to Peace Bench
Create a peaceful public space for busy life-styled San Francisco community
Design Concept
- Panelized Wood
easily make variations of design by changing the properties of one wood panel
- Individualized Seat
Description of design drivers / goals
- Goal 1 - Provide flexible design for different site condition
- Goal 2 - Provide flexible design for different user types
- Goal 3 - Provide comfortable and peaceful public space
Logic diagram
CAD models
Parametric variations: Images
Design Strength
- Environmental friendly design (material)
- Flexible design change
- Provide human comfort
- User oriented design
- Peace bench
Provide comfortable and peaceful environment to busy city life-styled community
Limitation
- Could not apply the user types on each chair differently (circular pattern of one panel)
- There are some unrealistic design configuration to emphasize parametric concept (ex. waiting time)
Lessons learned
- Strength of parametric design
Even though the first design process is complicated, the one design can simply produce a lot of different designs for different users and different environment
- Dependency of each part is important when modify the model
One part can break the other part’s parametric relationship if the part is dependent on the others
- If your component contains more than one part, create each part separately and assemble.
It would give more ways to put relationship between parts and also you can apply different material on each part
- Save file every 5min! (we have lost 4hour-work)
Discussion
Nice solution! This looks entirely possible from the manufacturing standpoint, and hits all of the design criteria. If you really wanted to dress it up, you might explore texture mapping a wood grain to the slats and adding a light and shadows - your intro image looks great because of the natural quality that the wood adds to it.