Started with aim and objective and finding an area to narrow down where the process should start was the initial stage.

Aim:
Looking how sunlight could inspire and produce design for capturing energy.

Objective:
Allowing people to create themselves with sunlight as a design tool which would help them to capture energy as well as produce light.

Initial Brief:
Lighting for Bridges (Creating a new experience in the cross over"s) .

1. Scenario Building
2. Concept Generation
3. Logo Explorations

1. Scenario Building:

Scenario 1: 
After lots of Iterations I have reached to this two scenarios.

This is a scenario of a boy who comes to see his grandparents and takes the experience from the bridge to his native place.

Scenario 2: 
This is a scenario of a family who comes for a holiday trip to Guwahati and takes the ritual of the Saraighat Bridge to their native place.

These scenarios led me to reach the concept Tree.
Taking Tree as a concept for lighting and finding keywords for tree was the next step.

2. Concept Generation:

Keywords for Tree: A collaborative effort was done with the M.Des First Years.

Concept Generation for Tree

As a result I founded out very interesting keywords like sharp edges, symmetric, pattern Keeping the keywords in mind and started to sketch concepts.

• Initial Concepts:
Taking origami as constraint and started working on various concepts.

Concept 1

Concept 2

Concept 3

Concept 4

Taking concept four for the iteration in common geometric shapes.

• Initial Geometry Iterations:
Common Geometrical Shapes: Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon

Geometric iterations

Each of the shapes was put into patterning and many tree explorations where done.

Geometric Patterning

Finalizing Hexagon and Pentagon Tree:

Pentagon Tree

Hexagon Tree

Two Dimensional to third dimension: 
Bringing tree from two dimensional to three dimensional space.

 

 

Three Dimensional Tree Explorations

Detailing of the geometrical shape:
From straight edges to fillets. In each stage there were different types of fillet explorations in order to bring the right curve.

Detailing the Individual Geometries

In  order  to visualize  the  three  dimensional  possibilities,  started  working  with  paper  to  feel  the geometry on hand.


Geometry into new space:
With the resource of a book named order in space by Keith Critchlow  the level of two shapes went into another space. Icosahedron, Dodecahedron, Snub Dodecahedron, Truncated Dodecahedron, Truncated Icosahedron. As the truncated icosahedrons led me new dimension of dome creation with pentagon  and  hexagon  came  into  picture. The  relation  of  Leonardo  da  Vinci  for  truncated icosahedrons was also visited.

Dome Explorations:
 

Detailing Dome Explorations

3. Logo Exploration:

• Logo and identity exploration:
Keywords:
Geometry, Geodesic, Green, Energy, Origami, Geography, Hexagon, Pentagon.

Logo Explorations

Phase I: Scenarios:

Taking  two  shapes  into  account  one Hexagon  and another Pentagon by patterning them in two and three dimensional space lead me to these scenarios.

a) Blinds for Interior and Exterior Lighting:

b) Garden Lamps

Garden lamps for parks     
      
c) Light installations in Bridges:

Light installations in Parks_(Image source)


Light installations in Bridges_(Image source)

The Whole journey in PHASE 1 took me into new dimensions of order in space but still with the constraint on the detail and also in the three dimensional led me more to explore into differ rent ways of modularity. The feedback was more on the weight factor, joineries, material wastage.