Apollo
Personal Work, Spring 2017
Designed Object, Sculptural Furniture
22 x 22 x 26”
The planter is a concept prototype derived from investigations into post war housing and suburban developments. Looking back at history following WWII and the 1969 Apollo moon landing, the suburban home seems too banal for a society responsible for landing man on the moon. This planter started with an orthogonal plane like a traditional front lawn, but took inspiration from the Moon and began to distort it’s surface with crater like forms. The morphed volume proposes to move the home inside the volume beneath the lawn and remove the suburban archetype altogether. The planter stands as an abstraction of the idea and a decor piece for me to put in my living room.
PROCESS COLLAGE_NOVEMBER_15_2017
The first object to be realized is a planter adopting crater like forms, used to house plants or any small objects you see fit. The planter itself is a study and process piece that is being used to help me develop a new residential plan that combats my current aggression and disinterest with a large majority of contemporary practicing designers and residential developers.
Prototype_FEBRUARY_05_2018
Overall, the final product kept the creative intent behind the collage that the piece was referencing. Minor adjustments had to be made due to my own negligence to learn about soil restraints and plant needs. The final form is not concrete like I initially spec'd but a mass made from carved open cell foam, lightweight spackle, paint and polyurethane hard-coat.
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RIGHT ELEVATION
The Process _ End-table Sized Planter
While laying the concrete, the chair frame held a depth too close to the surface of the concrete. The form was casted with a "crack" and inevitably broke. Luckily the switch to a foam base reduced the weight a considerable amount and made it a more appropriate piece of furniture.
This process image makes me think that this would be nice end table.
Pre-Plants _ Final Finsh