Tricycles

I looked up tricycles to support my design. As a result, I guessed most tricycles are used for short journey or not many people / loads. That was exactly what I thought about my elephant fire engine. What surprising me was some of tricycle's front seat design was very similar to my design.

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When I went to copenhagen last thursday, I found interesting design of tricycle.
Normally space for loads is back of the front seat, but it has big space in front of handle.
It was interesting because it looks  combined with pram and bicycle.

 

Deconstructivism

As I was thinking about concept of "chopshop", suddenly it came into my mind that concept of chopshop is similar to Deconstruction.  Deconstruction is basically an approach introduced by french philosopher Jacques Derrida. It tries to demonstrate that any text is not a discrete whole but contains several irreconcilable and contradictory meanings. (Wiki) It influenced on many area beyond the philosophy like architecture and fashion. Those buildings and clothes, which is  influenced by deconstruction, approach to aesthetic point of view on the objects rather than practicality. I found that understanding deconstructivism can help me out to do my chopshop project.


Buildings designed by deconstructivism architect Frank Gehry

Ray and Maria Stata centre in MIT

 The funny thing about this building is the students of MIT don't like this building much. Because when it is raining, the design can't drain properly so some part of building get leaks. Should design be focused on function or design itself?

 

 Hotel Marque de Riscal

Dutch Insurance company (Dancing Building / Fred and Ginger)

Cloths designed by Martin Margiela

Cloths made with gloves and pieces of fur. I think these clothes and the chopshop project are in the same context which they are made by parts of other objects.

Cloths designed by Hussein Chalayan

 He designs very constructive cloths even they don't have any function as real life clothes, such as LED dress and table skirt. However, in terms of combining two or more different item into a cloths, the idea inspired me for this chopshop project.

Primary designing for my elephant fire engine

 This was the initial ideas for my fire engine.

Let's look a bit bigger. This was the VERY first idea of the car. 

It was from simple ordinary old tricycle. 

After this, the elephant came into my brain, so I combined them together.

  After it was combined with elephant's trunk, It has a hosepipe coming from the front part of the car instead of the front wheel. The hosepipe can pulled out and if you pull it again it will go in automatically. It's a semiautomatic hosepipe. 

It will help to understand imagining pulling out electrical cord of hoover.

This is the back of fire engine. 

It is small tricycle, however, it still has all the gadgets and small water tank inside of the boot. 

It can't be forgotten to bring ladder as well. 

Elephants' trunk

The last elephant's trunk is definitely my role hosepipe! 

Brainstorming

I have been thinking about what would I do for Industry exercises for a week. At the weekend, I went to the tate modern and the london eye for finding inspirations and doing some research for Digital environment group project. After I walked out from the tate, I heard a fire engine sound. I just imagined what would happen in the fire scene and fire engine mindlessly. Just thinking of fire engine, I thought that the fire engine's fierce colour and all the gadgets seemed interesting to chop down. 

Fire Engines

Old fire engine motor bikes

 I found these motor bike fire engines are really interesting and they have very unique shape. 

Also, of course they have gadgets to put out a fire so I thought there will be more fun to re-design with them. As i was searching more motor bike designs, 3 wheel motor bike would suit for my fire engine motor bike than usual 2 wheel motor bike. 

3 wheel motor bikes

Although they are military 3 wheel motor bikes but I like the fact that they have room for more people or loads.  It could be look like a small car as well.

Fire engine toys 

The last one is actually kettle, it inspired me combining fire engine with other objects or creatures. I found the similarity between fire engine's hosepipe and elephant's trunk!

resource of other components (e.g. headlights, front shape of fire engine motor bike, dashboard) 

and etc.