#box assignment

As my experiments focused on the destruction and reconstruction of a box, using its own materials to create a transformed version of its original form, my final experiment/transformation that will create the final design will bring all of this together to form a box constructed from destruction. As boxes are built up from clean, fresh material, my design challenges this by using the destroyed material to create something new.

Experiment 3 - Force As the overall concept of my work is looking at destruction, reconstruction and what makes/breaks a box, i tested what force did to each material. I was hoping the glass box would smash, however much of the base was quite think so i thought maybe it wouldn't. Luckily i was wrong and it smashed almost completely after only a couple of drops. The felt was harder to destroy with force as bending and crushing it had no effect and it was too strong to rip. By pulling on certain areas of the felt I was able to eventually damage it but it was a lot sturdier than i had originally expected. Even the stitching around the edges held tight while it was pulled on. The cardboard box was easily crushed. I did change the thickness of the cardboard here because i ran out of the other boxes i was using but as it is still cardboard it still works for the experiment. However, even though the box was destroyed it had the ability to be re-created from its original material in a way the other two materials could not be. By simply flattening it down the crumpled cardboard could be folded back into a box shape that successfully worked as a box. This was interesting as it lead to destruction being used to reconstruct something similar but transformed.

Experiment 2 - Fire The cardboard box did exactly what I expected it to, but the felt box burnt a lot faster than i though and then went out much quicker, even though it hadn't run out of fuel yet (i put the cardboard out as otherwise it would have completely burnt).

BOX 3 - Glass