inflatable mobile voter center
A quick entry I put together for a mobile voter registration and information center competition which had a pretty cool set of limitations – it had to be under 1000 dollars, fit inside a 3’x3’x3′ box, and be assembled and ready to hit the streets by September. The immediacy and modest budget were compelling and a nice change of pace. An inflatable structure was used to get around the rigid packaging requirements to produce the maximum volume to surface area, that, and I really dig the giant inflatable union rat that has been popping up around lower Manhattan streets. Unfortunately and inexplicably, the deadline was pushed back to 2011 (which is not an election year) so I guess I’ll be waiting to see how I did.
concept
The gesture of the “i want you” poster was extruded and placed in a cylindrical shape for maximum exposure. Each arm becomes a customizable exhortation to vote and the end cap can be written and erased with a dry erase marker. The gesture is returned by the prospective voter who has to reach into the arms and place the completed form inside the unit.
assembly
September 3rd, 2014 at 10:43 pm
hi, i was interested in the script for this design. I’m trying to create an inflatable pavilion that increases in size and becomes more aggressive based on increase of passing traffic for my final project. i have a different form but would like to replicate the surface treatment. cheers
September 5th, 2014 at 9:52 am
hi Enzo, this is a very old file – no promises in regards to current capability – but it could give you a good starting point.
http://gracefulspoon.com/downloads/GH_MOBILE-VOTER-FINAL.ghx (right click, save as….)
November 3rd, 2015 at 3:54 am
Hello, I was amazed by the diagram on the third page which contains 9 pictures demonstrating the procedure of how this object is inflated from the state of totally shrink. I was wondering how these 9 models were made. I would be so grateful if you can give me a hint.
November 3rd, 2015 at 7:26 am
Hi, if I was going to do this now, I would use Kangaroo + Grasshopper. Back then that wasn’t an option, so I was playing around with dynamic bodies in Maya.
November 3rd, 2015 at 10:50 pm
Amazing! Thank you very much. I guess it was made by Maya in the first place which regretfully is not implied in the tags. Although back that time you made this series of models artificially, it still clearly demonstrated your idea.
I just started to learn to use Maya. Apology for my consecutive questions in advance. Could you tell me which key commands did you use in the Dynamics toolbar in Maya? Or what kind of scripts did you use in Maya?
November 3rd, 2015 at 11:06 pm
Or some specific tutorials or websites with tutorials about how to simulate transformable inflated structures (or pneumatic structures) by softwares (Rhino or Maya) will just be sufficed.Thank you very much.