Thesis

The most common response to 'How are you?' is 'Busy'. In some cultures, this phrase appears to be a badge of honor or status. People think about the future so much that they never think about the present. So, our piece aims to help individuals live in the moment. The display looks like a camera shutter, but when it opens, there will be an eye-capturing art piece. Our project will be a spectacle that people will gather to see. It will roughly take one hour to open and one hour to close, repeating each day throughout the hours.

Precedents

Technical Precedent:

We were inspired by the shutter mechanism on a camera, you can see that in our project's sliding folds

Conceptual Precedent:

We wanted our project to be a spectacle people will gather to see and marvel at.

Aspirational Precedent:

We wanted our project to be something that reminds people to live in the moment and that time is precious.

Ideas

Sketches

Dowel

Door

Frame

Closed Door

Open door to nature

Shutter piece

Hole for dowel

First Prototypes

Low-Fi Prototype

Technical Diagram



Shutters

Gears

Top

Base