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CNC

For this project I created a wine holder for my mothers birthday. The idea is that the bottom holder the bottle of wine and Christmas light can be sprung through through the top (for a holiday-like effect). It will be hung on a wall in my kitchen back home (obviously not represented in the images. I was completely blown away with how irritating the CNC router can be and oddly impressed by the final results. Moral of the story: never procrastinate....ever!

Assignment 6 - Mental Armor (Cy Kim)

Phone holder for the crapper....enough said.

~Enhancing your experience in the bathroom~

Hygienic solution to holding your phone while you are doing your business, unless you are Mark.

There is an issue with the structural stability of my design and I will visit this after to ensure that everybody in the 3rd floor of Margaret Morrison can benefit from this prototype. The use of the CNC was crucial to creating components that would fit exactly into each other.

Mental Armor

For Assignment 6, I created a laptop cooling pad/elevated stand. I am constantly moving my computer, phone, drinks, etc. around my studio desk to make room for modeling, sketching, etc. This stand allows me to have my laptop elevated above my studio desk (or any flat surface) and have room for stuff underneath (including cup holders - one of which is big enough for a mug). The top also detaches (screws) so that it can be used as a cooling pad/lap desk. I already have one, but when I am working somewhere other than my desk, I never have a flat space for other things I like to have handy like my phone, mouse, and water bottle. I created a space for all those things on the side. Using the CNC router saved hours of time compared to how long it would take me to make this in shop. Pocketing with the CNC was a much better option than milling in shop (my most hated machine).

Assignment 6 - Mental Armor

For my project I created a laptop stand for my desk, I found that my studio desk would get cluttered with trace, models and all my other architecture stuff. I felt that when I needed to make models or do sketches I didn't have a good place to put my laptop often I had to resort to taking over the desks of my absent neighbours so I had a sufficient space to do my work. For my design I kept in mind the height of my drafting board so if I needed to lift my drafting board up there would be enough clearance underneath so that I could keep my laptop stand there.

Assignment 6 Mental Armor - Skeletal Organizer

Understanding the assignment as adding a layer on top of something that already exists in order to change it to have an impact, I thought about some difficulties I had with my daily routines. Every morning, I go through struggles to find my toiletries, spending more than enough time just for searching around my small one-room apartment. I decided to reduce this time by making a desk organizer for my table at home.

BEFORE AFTER

My design intention was to make something very simple and expendable, being able to add more parts to it if needed. Cosmetics organizers already out in the market were composed of individual boxes, so I thought of making one that has only the necessary part, or the skeleton.

Assignment #6 (Nico Gomez)

I started the design problem by thinking about my daily activities, from the ones that happen in my apartment, to those that happen in studio, and even to those that happen on the go. Without a doubt, most of my time is spent working in studio in my laptop, therefore I decided to focus on possibilities to make a more ergonomic and comfortable working experience. I have noticed that my arms and tendons tend to get sore and tired after a few hours of working in my laptop, so I immediately knew that this CNC project would allow me to create a simple and elegant solution to this.

I began exploring structural ribs that would give my laptop a more comfortable angle for me to work on. In terms of form, I played around with very sharp and angular forms but then concluded that a wavy and expressive curve would fit better ergonomically, so I used the slopes and angles of my linear-angular exploration and applied them to the final 3 rib design. These ribs are friction fit with the desk to help with firmness and stability.

Looking back to the choice of materials, I would have probably chosen a thicker wood than the 1/4" thick wood that I used because the ribs would have felt sturdier, although the thinner wood does give it a more streamlined feel.

Assignment 6 | CNC Mental Armour | "Stain Glass" Window Enhancer

I took this project as an opportunity to make something that would transform my own living space in a visual way. By taking the underlying geometry of the piece of wood I was allotted (a 2' x 4' sheet of .25" plywood), I designed a window accessory to alter the light, color, and aesthetics of whatever space it is in. I split the wood it in such a way that, when simply analyzing the CNC cut sheet file (mine is the bottom fourth in the picture below), it does not seem extraordinary; however, once assembled, the pieces I cut out would then transform each other with more depth and variety.

The different colored pieces of cellophane help to add visual depth once light pierces the project. By using the shapes cut out in the "voids" and shifting them to become "solids" in front/behind the key panels, I was able to create a Mondrian-esque composition on my project, and practically got rid of all muda! Finally, extending some of these solids past the boundaries of the original panels (2' x 2' and 1' x 2') I was able to break the rigidity of those rectangular shapes to add direction and system to the design of the project. Even though it was designed for the width of my apartment window, I discovered that my "stain glass" window accessory/enhancer fits quite nicely in a studio window, giving my project multiple locations of function.