SCALE FOUR: SLIDING COMPONENTS. [2]

The three components have been developed so as to include a series of lips and recessions that meant that when the top piece is pulled it pulls the piece below it and the fixed bottom piece limits how far the upper two can travel.

SCALE THREE: RHINO MODELLING. [2]

using the existing wireframe pattern from the jewellery box to plan interior space of a retail fit-out.
a series of interlocking panels constructed from frosted glass or acrylic plastic will provide an undulating surface into which the bottom half of the previously designed jewellery box will slot. this will be mirrored on the ceiling with the lids of the jewellery box thus leaving a ribbon of space between the two which would be glazed in a single pane of transparent glass. Occupation would be within the central void with access being gained between the 'purple' and 'red' layers in the above images.This is form i can imagine could function as a temporary/travelling display space that could be installed both inside or outside and when lit would then influence the appearance of surrounding buildings with rays of light and shadow being cast.  

details to be designed:
1. how the vertical panes interlock.
2. how the boxes slot into the vertical panels so as to create a single undulating surface.

SCALE THREE: RHINO MODELLING. [1]

I intend to design a system of displaying jewellery within my jewellery box which is ultimately read as an extension of the box itself. The bases will be arranged to create a single undulating surface - the angles of the fracture between base and lid dictating the final form. This will be mirrored by the arrangement of the lids in their creation of the ceiling.
I have run into the problem of my original box having a much too complex geometry to be having such large numbers within the same file and will therefore have to re-think how i am going to go about designing the space. Instead of the arranging the boxes to form a pattern from which i would design their supporting structure I am perhaps going to have to do the opposite, designing the structure and then implementing the soon-to-be-simplified boxes in a potion of it as an example.

SCALE THREE: RE-MAKING BOX.

I tried various ways of simplifying my box to decrease the file complexity. As boolean and trim commands will no longer work with it it proved rather difficult. Using the previously constructed blue and green massing and explode/rebuild i was able to reduce the number of faces significantly but it still seems to be too complex when using multiple in one file.

BOX PROTOTYPE ONE.

This detail is an investigation into a segmented facade that slots together down a corner face. at this point i am just aiming to see how much it is affected by light and to refine the connections between pieces. I envisage that these will form a secondary surface inside of an outer semi-opaque shell and be extended on one axis so as to form various layers of stacked compartments.

LIGHT/DENSITY TEST.

It is important at this stage to know just how much the printed plastic is permeated by light. 

For this reason I printed a simple stepped box in increments of 2mm.

JEWELLERY PROTOTYPE FOUR.

The previous file was broken up into separate layers so as to print more accurately and with less support material. 

This was much more successful although in many of the smaller pieces the holes were too close to the edges and therefore did not print in their entirety.  Selecting the most successful of the triangles and applying them to a new and more refined base seems the most appropriate next step at this stage. 

JEWELLERY PROTOTYPE THREE.

consists of a series of offset triangles of differing dimensions so as to produce a prism. two cylinders have been subtracted to house the prongs of the previously used curtain hook. 

once printed the completely enclosed subtraction was filled with support material and the large amount of support material on the outside made exterior faces rough and less accurate.