Bespoken Project Process 2


 This process is more focused on fabricating the shelf. After finishing it up on Rhino, I decided to first make a prototype with plywood to see if my design actually worked. This also allowed me to see what would go wrong early on and, therefore, fix it before finalization.


Having to put this design together physically showed some challenges. For starters, It made me think of the size of my design vs the size of the available wood space. This led me to the decision to separate some more of the parts of the design. For example, I did this with the back part of the shelf as I felt like it wasn't able to print it all without going over the wood. I also created testing bits to see if things would slide and interlock correctly as I wanted some parts of the design to interlock with each other. On the final, I plan to put some glue in between to make it stable.

Here are other parts of the shelf laser cutter and put somewhat together. This experience was quite fun, as it was nice to see things work out, and have it all come together from my design on Rhino. It was also nice being able to adjust several things was nice.





One issue I still need to fix is the shelf part itself and its supports. Right now, I am struggling to align them properly, and I wasn't able to recut some of the pieces I needed in time... Other than that, I think everything else is pretty okay.





During this process, I had several more ideas... I thought of ways I could layer even more, and create pieces of the shelf that would have more distance, creating more of a sense of foreground and background, as I still want to play around with space for this project. 

I am also entertaining the idea of possibly using a mix of plastic with the wood and maybe staining it. I do want to give this shelf some pop of colour, but still keep that wood texture, so any of these methods would be good. the only issue with it is if it would look good, but hey that's the point of prototyping...

I also realized I totally forgot to implement the parts that would allow this shelf to hang... So I need to plan that out too possibly.


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