Project Two- Individual Quarantine Unit

Sticking to the ideas of my first project [protective glove] I have being to develop a series of diagrams dealing with textures and touch. Using light as my second input, I have begun to lay out a series of 'rooms' dealing with textured, non-textured, light, and dark.

Comparative Diagrams

House/ Lazar House Research

Handthrax Glove Ad

Graphing Human Behavior

The final [PROCESS] model.

I have decided to eliminate the antibacterial fabric as a material option and am just focusing on 24 guage steel wire and the no-slip rubber liners. Over the next two days I will work to integrate these materials as well as create an informative poster for my final.

Here are a series of photos from my first prototype. Overall, I'm not very satisfied with it. It is dense, bulky, and the materials still don't quite flow together. My next attempt will be a bit different. I am going to section off different areas of the hand, and I am going to construct the glove BEFORE I integrate the wire. Hopefully this will make the material easier to work with and I won't get as many cuts :)

Weave :)

This week I have been expirementing with different methods for combining my materials. Initially, the design was a system of layering materials, but it has turned into a series of weaves. I have chosen to go with the largest sample piece because it allows for flexibility while still being extremely protective at the same time. As we speak I am currently in the process of weaving a very large piece of fabric to begin my first protoype model..

Hands..finally

Here I have two hand models that I have created using Rhino and importing those files to the laser cutter. The smaller hand has served as a 3D diagram showing: overall infectious areas (lime green), areas prone to cuts (blue), and where those two mix (darker green).