Flower brainstorm

It was very difficult to find what shape to make the flower into. We looked at deployable structures to decide how the flower was to be made.

Here are some links we looked at:
http://vimeo.com/2840704

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/kade-x/article?mid=1609&prev=1615&next=1592&l=a&fid=8

http://www.dianaeng.com/blog/

From the third one, we used a structure from this image.

It looked very much like a flower, and we found it was not too difficult to fold. In fact we found a paper print that taught us how to fold it.

Once we did it, we realized the structure was very beautiful, then we commenced to add petals onto it. We prototyped for a day, experimenting with different paper structures and shapes. The most important thing was to keep our flower beautiful and elegant, because it is after all, a representation of intimacy.

Here are some of our prototypes.

My team and I voted on our favourite designs, we liked the second one. After that we went to buy paper.