Material and construction

I always thought that my final dress/tower frame is going to be from wood, but after speaking with my 3D  teacher Pete I am now considering plastic too. 

Construction sketches :

Struggling with a final piece size

 Recently I found a picture of the Shukhov tower that made me think about more then one Victorian era dress/tower. After seeing it I made a quick sketch :

Now I am not sure whether to create one large sculpture or a couple of small ones.

Furthermore, should I leave these dresses with the same frame and change only material colors or should I create different shapes/frames too?

Research: Victorian era dresses

Idea Nr2

Victorian era dress

Sketch

Prototype in progress 

Finished prototype 

3D (first idea)

                                      First lesson in 3D. Came up with an earring idea.

ended up with this :

Because this prototype remanded me of Victorian era dresses, to be more accurate, dresses frames I came with another idea :

A few quick drawings to understand more about the object

Print

I had my first lesson in Print and here is what I have done during it :

I removed some pieces of card with a scalpel, then glued different textures on the bottom (grass). Then I have put more glue on the edges and because I made that in diverse thickness I hope it's going to look like clouds.

And that's what you get after adding some ink on your card and putting it trough a print machine :)















This is my first work with a print technique and a really fast one, but I am very happy that I tried this!

Research Nr.2 (Photos)

Research

Before you start creating you have to know more about the object and especially its structure.

Here is a link where you can see The Shukhov Tower as if you are there :
 http://www.360cities.net/image/shukhov-tower-on-the-oka-river#376.48,-6.08,110.0

The tower is one of several tower structures designed by Russian engineer and scientist Vladimir Shukhov. By applying his analytical skills to the doubly-curved surfaces Nikolai Lobachevsky named "hyperbolic", Shukhov derived a family of equations that led to new structural and constructional systems, known as hyperboloids of revolution and hyperbolic paraboloids. V. Shukhov designed more then one tower:

Only a few years ago there was a pair of 128-meter-high masts. In 1989, the power line was rerouted and the 20- and 68- metre pylons were dismantled. The 128 metre pylons were left intact as a monument. Today, only one of the 128-metre pylons stands as the other was illegally scrapped for metal in May 2005.

Structure : The Shukhov Tower consists of five 25-metre (82 ft) steel lattice sections, formed by single-cavity hyperboloids of revolution. The pylon sections[vague] are made of straight profiles, the ends of which rest against circular foundations. The tower's circular concrete foundation has a diameter of 30 metres (98 ft).

This Photo shows us not the same tower as in my project, but I think it is really useful because it helps you to understand how these towers were built :

Project number 1 (Shukhov Tower)

We were presented with a photographs of a highly engineered objects. Mine is The Shukhov Tower near Oka River in Russia. The aim of this project is to create something non-engineer, aesthetic, artistic from this industrial object. We have to create some prototypes and develop to a final high quality piece.