Project 3: 3a Operative Word Diagrams

Project 2: Quarantine Space for One

Continuing the ideas of our first quarantine project this semester, we are now working on developing a quarantine space for an individual who has the same disease as in the mask project. After performing a diagrammatic study on the differences and similarities between a quarantine space and a home, we began to make up a program for the quarantine unit based around our findings. In relation to Peter Eisenman's House II, I began by blocking out functions as a series of cubic spaces, wanting the quarantine unit to be broken up to provide the feeling a being of a more complex space. Despite my usual inclination toward clean, uninhibited spaces, I felt that in the case of this project this extensive period of containment with no physical contact with the outside world asks the space to provide a level of complexity missed out upon by the recovering patient by being separated from the world for an extended period of time. After working through several different concepts, I decided that the best way for me to organize the space would a stacked vertical integration.











This would separate the functions of sleeping, bathing, cooking, and working each on individual levels, causing the user to have to travel between floors in order to perform different functions throughout the day, making the space feel larger and more complex.

Final Mask

After learning about how the 3d modeling process works, I was able to set up the Rhino model of my H1N1 mask so that it could be fabricated. The process took a little time, but was definitely worth it, as the product was a really impressive model that was sturdy and fairly simple to work with.

I assembled the pieces of the 3D print, one arm rigid and one arm hinged, so that it would be a little more flexible when put on or taken off. I drilled three holes in the front of it for air circulation and fitted a surgical mask inside so that it would be able to filter the air coming in.


I painted the mask white and wrapped the front in metal strips to provide the rougher aesthetic I wanted the mask to have. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to cut the strips the way I originally wanted to, as I didn't have the tools at the time to cut them as thin and into as many strips. Over all, I felt that the mask combined aesthetics with function in the way that I wanted it to and addressed the question at hand. My mask combined devices that enhanced virtual communication in order to make up for it's hinderance of physical communication for the sake of protection. Although, as we continue to communicate virtually more and more every day, the mask begins to provide more than was ever taken in the first place, as physical communication becomes less and less common in our daily lives.

Project 2: Comparative Analysis

H1N1 Mask Update: iShield

Although my goal for the project has been to make masks that appeal to different genders and styles, the thing I’ve been focusing on the most is the basic form factor of the mask. I started with ties that went behind the head and attached at the back of the head that held it tight to the face, but decided that this was more invasive than I originally wanted the mask to be.
The form factor I would like to achieve is one that inhibits personal interaction as little as possible, while still preventing the spread of disease and providing the conveniences of a Bluetooth headset and a heads up display. To do this, I decided that a better way would be to free the back of the head and make the functional elements of the mask also act as the structural elements.

To do this, I would have to have the mask anchor behind each ear and under the chin, involving a much greater understanding of the contours of the face. To do this I made a plaster cast of my face that I then 3D scanned into Rhino to try and closely model to these contours as best as possible.


Using both the 3D model of my face as well as a 3D model of a face I found online, I began to try and come up with a mask that would achieve all of my goals. After spending a few days molding something that contoured the face comfortably and had a form factor I felt would make applying varying aesthetic elements easier to do, my next goal is to 3D print the model from Rhino. I am currently working on making minimal changes to the mask allowing it to be digitally fabricated soon so that I can actually test out the mask on myself, editing the form factor afterward based on how it fells in real life and how realistically I can integrate the technical elements of the project into the design.