OUGD603 - Brief 6 - Research Brief - Indoor Gardening - Development - Digital Development of final designs

Digital Development of Final Designs 

It was considered that potentially five designs could be created for the set each featuring an different type of brick / paving design. Two would use square / rectangular features within them, whilst another two would use semi circles / quarter circles, whilst the last one would split the design diagonally creating triangles. This would allow simple shapes to be reflected in the designs and allow the material designs to be the focus of the design. These shapes would also leave enough space within the planters for plants to be added. 

One of the designs would represent a stone path which are made from varying sized stone slabs joined together, the use of rectangles and squares within the design reflects this idea. Outlining the design with a 'brick' trim allows the design to fit in with the first design created for the mock up which represents a basketweave brick / block path.

It was considered that crazy paving made using stone could be reflected in another design, with the irregularity of the blocks being the defining feature of this type of paving.

Various geometric shapes were used to create an irregular pattern but allowed all of the pieces to join together.

It was quite difficult to get a sense of disorganization within the design and often some of the lines would connect all the way through the design so these had to be adjusted so that there were more breaks within the alignment of the forms.

Using the bricks as an edge for the design again creates an element of consistency within the set, with the bricks in the edging of all the designs being the same size as the original design creating further consistency. 

For the circular shaped pieces within design the bricks would have to go around a curve.

Using the rotate tool allowed one brick to be rotated at a certain angle multiple times around a point creating equal spacing around the circle.

Fitting the circle to the edges of the planter rather than the internal wall would allow the design to be bigger without taking up any more room within the design.

Both a running brick design and herringbone brick design were experimented with within designs, as these were visually different to to the basketweave design. 

For designs with a quarter circle the designs were tested so that the design stretched slightly over half way to allow more of the design to be visible and compensate for the fact that the shape has a smaller surface area than the square in the first design.

By doing this however it looked slightly out of proportion and when seen with the others would look odd so it was decided that the smaller quarter circle would be used as this fitted better with the grid and layout of the other designs.

Standard brick shapes were rotated around a curve to create the edging for these designs however by doing this it created gaps between the bricks. Instead it was considered that lines could be used and rotated around the center point to break the edging into blocks rather than brick shapes which would allow no spaces to be created and more consistency with the the use of line within the rest of the designs.

The rotation tool was similarly used within the creation of the cobbled design within a circle.

Each layer of the circle was done separately with line rotated around the centre point. One this was done for all of the designs the seperate circles were rotated to adjust the lines so that they didn't match up with the next circle.

Varying the degrees of rotation within the different layers allowed the blocks to be sized differently within each layer allowing bigger blocks to be created for the outside and smaller ones for the inside reflecting a cobbled effect. 

Within the designs a circle was left as a feature piece within the design. Having a layer of thin bricks around the edges of the design allows it to be inkeeping with the use of the same feature in the other designs. Reducing the angle sizes as the rings progress outwards allows a similar sized block to be created from the centre outwards making the design look like it has been made using the same sized blocks throughout.

The circle shapes were cut to size using the divide pathfinder tool which allowed them to be separated and elements deleted to leave the final shape behind.

It was considered that perhaps having such a large circular piece within the centre of the cobbled paving design would stand out when compared to the other designs. Adding and extra layer filled this space.