GREGOR'S ESCAPE

PROJECT OVERVIEW

1. This project is to design a vertical connection

2. This vertical connection represents a spatial experience of Gregor's Journey (the protagonist of a narrative)

3. Through this entire journey, the experience is represented by flip and slide actions.

4. It is a 1:1 scale project and we are built this vertical descend. The main material used to construct is plywood.

DESIGN CONCEPT

Gregor must make a descend from 3rd level to 1st level from the 9-grid model. Using similar movements like an insect and some human ergonomics, Gregor will be required to crawl, walk and climb his way through his descend. The 9-grid model represents his difficulties and the journey that we have pathed out for him shows how he tries overcomes them. As Gregor reaches toward the end, he begins to lose all hopes of escaping, thus we show the end of his journey with him experiencing a slow and painful death.

Fig.1 Mock Up Model in 1:5 scale.

GREGOR'S ROUTE

SURFACE MANIPULATION

An action that affects multiple surfaces. Making use of the actions flip and slide, as a pair we are to come out with different manipulation for Gregor to activate in order to escape the 9-grid.

BODY MOVEMENTS

Studying average ergonomics allows us to design better to aid Gregor to descend from the 9-grid smoothly.