Design process that was followed in this project:
• Introduction
- Top banana producing states
- Condition Post Harvest
• Pseudo stem
- Banana Sheaths
• Visiting the crafts facility
- Process of working with Banana fiber
- Work area setup
- Machineries used by them
- Various techniques they are familiar with
- Weaving over the GI Moulds
- Weaving over the Metal Frames
- Hand Weaving the narrow sheaths without mould
- Other Regional Material influence in their craft
- Few samples of other weaving
• Range of Products they make
• Impact of banana fibre products
- Empowering Women SHGs
• Raw Material Hierarchy
- Raw Material Samples
• Design Intervention Areas
- Clustering their existing range based on focus area
- Space making products using crafts
- Product Positioning
- Monosegment Target Audience
- Similar current users
• Revised Design Brief
• Benchmarking Banana fibre products
• Design Approach Ideations
- Design Approach 1
- Design Approach 2
- Design Approach 3
- Design Approach 4
- Design Approach 4.1
- Concept Evaluation
• Additional Design consideration and Strategies
- Documenting the social media ads
• Testing (Ergonomics / Strength)
- Testing rig making
- Rigs tested for Ergonomics
- Rig 3 tested for Strength
- Backrest Rig tested for Strength
- Fiber Rope testing rig (works perfect)
- Findings from the Tests
• Form Development
- Initial sketch studies
- Form study from rig
- Parametric Approach for form exploration
- Form finding method
- Forms study
- Form study inference
- Few Sketch Studies Conceptualising the Overall setup
- Mini scale models to Evaluate form and structure
• Pattern Explorations
- Exploration on various weaving pattern
- Ideating weaving patterns
- Applied weaving pattern over test rig
• Treatment possibilities
- Anti Fungal Treatment
- Brown colour Dyeing with KATHA
- Red colour Dyeing with colourant
- Golden orange colour Dyeing with Turmeric
- Colour pallete
• Final Design and Prototyping
- Why CNC pipe bending over other materials ?
- Structural Ideations
- Final Frame Dimension
- Coordinates Extraction for CNC pipe bending
- Materials used for Final Prototyping
- Stage 1: Frame fabrication
- Stage 2: Weaving/windng the structural fiber ropes
- Stage 3: Firing the fiber ropes
- Stage 4: Weaving vertically with Banana stem rope
- Stage 5: Finishing the base stand
• Final Design
• Natural Fiber Crafts : Business Model
• Reference
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