#Wearable interface
#Devices
#Mapping
#Humanbody
#environment
Contour Couture
Overview
Our experience of the world we inhabit is shaped by various factors, including our individual backgrounds, culture, and physical makeup. To comprehend and engage with our surrounding environment, we rely on our senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. When exploring a vibrant city like New York, we encounter diverse environments, from dense buildings to parks, subways, and waterfronts. It is through our senses that we perceive, interpret, and immerse ourselves in these surroundings.
In this project, I design and fabricate a wearable interface/device that forms a conceptual and literal connection between my own body and the surrounding environment. Similar to architecture, the design and fabrication of this ‘wearable form and space’, will define a designed interface, a partial boundary, a connection, between the body and the environment.
Haus‐Rucker‐Co, Environment Transformers , GAIA, Veasyble Bart Hess, Mutants, Sammy Jobbins Wells, Skin
Site/Context
Columbus Circle/Central Park consists of layers of various systems, and share three primary conditions; an urban quality, a public park, and a subway system.
What is special about this site?
What are the qualities about the space that are important?
What are the existing conditions?
What are the attributes that define the environment?
Body
When visiting the site, I pay close attention to my body and senses.
What is the relationship between my senses and the body, what is the relationship between the form of my ear, and how it performs to capture sound?
By sketch and draw the body part(s), I better observe and understand their relationship(s) to form and function. My experience of the site change as I walk around and move in between the three various conditions.
Mapping & Air Flow Analysis
Making the Contour Couture
Materials:
Tracing paper roll
white strawboard/cardboard
sewing
fishing line
tape
elastic band
Contour represents topography of Columbus Circle/Central Park.
By 3D visualizing air flow over and around the environment, and analyze the wind conditions, to understand how the site condition affect my body and surroundings.
