Thesis

 Clink Linkers is a pop up play structure for children between the ages of 8 to 11. The structure represents the brainstorming step in the design process, by creating a cluster of pool noodles that can be connected and moved to create web of ideas.

Eliot feedback session/visit

We visited the Eliot school in Boston to present the structures the earlier studio worked and made. The kids shared their views and opinions on things and gave ideas on other elements that could be included in out playgrounds.

• Zip lines & Swings
• Interactive Play
• Creativity
• Inventing games
• Room to run around
• Safety

• Pool Noodle movements
• Unique/ individualized play
• Color coding
• Scale
• Padding and structure

Key Points

Precedents

Technical:

Conceptual:

UX:

Our design was based off these 3 precedents. We wanted the structure of our design to include hanging pool noodles and conceptually wanted the kids to use it in multiple different play aspects that included sitting, swinging and climbing.

Sketch collage

Initial Prototypes

Brainstorming

Collaboration

Iteration

NuVu Process

Playspace

Final structure

Structural Design

Experience Design

Structural Design

Models and Drawings

Initial Prototypes

The prototypes made here was our original idea used as the base of the structure that held up the pool noodles. The purpose of the hexagon shape was so the kids could swing around with the pool noodles from one side to another.

Materials used: pool noodles, wood, string and poles from inside the pool noodle.

Experimentation of Swings

Initial Prototype Testing

Structure Building process

Structure Building

CUT PVC LENGTHS

CUT DOWN 2 BY3 4 / CUT OUT STOPPERS

TIE TO TOP

CUT AND PREPARE PARACORD

CUT DOWN POOL NOODLE

Experience Design

3D Model

Initial Prototype

Final 1/6th scale model:

Thank you!

Next steps

• Rigidify the structure
• Obtain user feedback
• Think about other ways that the noodles could move connect and combine
• Optimize documentation and design to work better with our user and target goals
• Make final structure