Concept Development

Concept Model

While visiting a train depot in Pullman Washington I found an old door that had a push panel which became my inspiration for the reuse of the depot. What caught my interest in this object was the line work, a man made metal placed on natural wood, the geometric shapes, the idea of what is behind the door, and the history and age of the door and overall location. These ideas helped develop an object analysis where I was able to expand on these ideas and add in more thoughts i had about the door. By choosing the thoughts and elements of design that I could expand and move on with, it lead me to a Parti design that showed the concept that was being portrayed. After developing a parti design that showed my concept I created a textile by repeating and rotating the parti design, I wanted the textile to keep an aged look so the idea of dollies was incorporated for an appearance of old fashion.The main idea for the concept model was the thought of what is behind closed doors, by adding slits in a box it crafts the impression of a glance inside. Also added was a man made object extruding out of natural wood to stay with the concept of the inspiration object. This project was a great way to help expand my knowledge of concept exploration. I successfully moved the ideas from my inspiration object to a model that represents all the thoughts of my exploration.  My weakness was being too literal and abstracting the object but I then was able to move pass that. I am pleased with the final model and that I was able to move all concepts of the door into a textile and model.