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June 21, 2006

Pod Thing

We're working on an interesting little project in design, although it manages to be interesting while also being a project I was hoping to avoid in my later years of architecture school.

Here's where I started:

See, I told you it was interesting.

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I took that little red balloon and wrapped it most of the way in gauze and plaster, like making a cast. Then I let it set up like that for a while, until it was quite firm.

I popped the balloon, and spray painted the inside of the pod thing red (using a nice low-VOC spray latex, by the way). The spraying took place outdoors in the dark, so it was a trifle sloppy. No matter.

My next move, after the red paint had dried, was to inflate another balloon in the pod thing and spray paint the outside black (the new balloon was a mask for the red paint inside, see).

And here's the final pod thing, sitting on my desk. It's beautiful. The shell has this marvelous texture of shiny and matte, smooth and textured. I could play with it all day.

So what is this pod thing for, anyway? It is the form-giver for a project that is best summed up with this drawing from my sketchbook:

Yes, it's a cardboard pod chair. A trifle more complicated than the cardboard chairs of second year, because I'm making compound curves and breaking some of the traditional cardboard chair rules. But it's a cardboard chair. So I'm half excited about it, half hating it.

Posted by ayse on 06/21/06 at 10:10 PM