Model in Motion
Abstraction - the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances.
In the brief the underlying idea was abstraction, being able to take one object or drawing, or take a piece of it and abstract it, or expand on that idea. Starting from a joint into a model would sound simple enough, but extracting just 1 idea of movement, that the joint makes and turning into a living, breathing model can be a different story.
Starting with the chosen joint, the knee you begin to explore and interpret what the joint does, how it moves, what happens during movement. Then map the data visually, and then using abstraction visually take out a piece of the puzzle and form it into 3d.
The idea behind this was using Santiago Calatrava, a famous Spanish architect, and extracting some basic principals from his designs, and integrating them with some of the basic principals of my draws that were creating during the 
exploration phase of the joint.
The final outcome and piece which is shown, is a form using planes and is connected using multiple strings or guide wires to lift and rotate the object to show translation and rotation that the joint first expressed.
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