Designing a Bird - Safe Window Treatment for the Frick Environmental Center
MY ROLE
Research & Analysis
Physical Prototyping & Iterations
Diagramming
Materiality Studies
Real - World Applications
COURSE
Human - Computer Interaction Research
Independent Study
PARTNERS TIMELINE
PhD Jesse Gonzalez Jan - July 2023
Phase 1: Problem & Empathy Building
How do we create more usable space in a room? What if we could take those static walls / ceilings in a room and make them more kinetic and usable?
Research Contributions
Taking those static walls and making them more kinetic in an effort to allow for versatile surfaces
Creating a technique for surface reconfiguration through programmable constraints.
Designing a novel structure for a bendable column, and the associated fabrication method.
Exploration of the application space, within the context of interactive architecture.
Imagine that you are fresh out of college and are living in a small studio apartment. You have very little functional space for all of your belongings and most of the floor space is going to be taken up as a result.
PROBLEM
There is no more space in the apartment
Super cluttered. All of the furniture takes up so much space
Phase 2: User Research
Understanding problems student’s face living in small space apartments
I interviewed 1 student who is living off campus in a small apartment.
Phase 3: Prototyping & Final Documentation
Link to Published Paper w/ Iterations
Link to Paper