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SparkCloud

Team members

Saw Man Lin (ASD), Yong Qi Hui Janice (ASD), Kadir Bahajjaj (EPD), Pui Jia Ying (EPD), Mason Petra Agung (ESD), Muhammad Hazwan Bin Mohamed Hafiz (ESD)

Instructors:

Karthik Balkrishnan, Thomas Schroepfer, Low Hong Yee

Writing Instructors:

Grace Kong

Teaching Assistant:

Li Xueliang

In Collaboration With:

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Introducing SparkCloud

 

 

SparkCloud is an interactive display and storage space for parcels containing past and ongoing projects by MSD's 3DT team, showcasing their capabilities and inviting users to ignite their inventive instinct.

 

Akin to how the innovations made by the 3DT team are growing and dynamic, we conceptualized our exhibit using clouds and how they shift and grow over time. This is achieved through an adaptive frame, along with panels that act as 'clouds' that the 3DT team may use for various purposes.

 

Project Background

 

About the Company

MSD, known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA in the United States and Canada, aspires to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company in the world. For more than a century, the company has been at the forefront of research, bringing forward medicines, vaccines and innovative health solutions for the world’s most challenging diseases. MSD established the IT hub in Singapore in 2015 as part of a global hub network, aiming to harness technology to continuously innovate and improve healthcare solutions.

 

About the Project

We worked with MSD’s internal design team, the 3D Technologies (3DT) team, that creates products for equipment and other processes to solve the two challenges they face.

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Design Development

 

The Adaptive Frame

The exhibit utilises voxels to create a form that changes over time. Each voxel unit is a rhombic dodecahedron, chosen for its many tesselated patterns.

 

 

The voxels are held together by an adaptive frame mechanism. It is enabled by an eight-way node that allows for many angles of connection, which gives rise to various forms.

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The Components

The form of the space frame is aggregated from identical rhombic dodecahedrons. Its components consist of 3D printed nodes and inserts, aluminium rods, a variety of clip attachments, and customised acrylic panels.

The 'Clouds'

Depending on how the curator adds customised panels to the frame, different experiences are created for users through different 'clouds'. Our prototype features storage clouds, display clouds, and sketch clouds. These 'clouds' allow for customisability. Words and images are laser-engraved on the acrylic panels to display content.

 

In our final prototype, we showcased four display 'clouds' to best represent the works of the 3DT team, namely (1) Solutions for You, (2) Improvements for You, (3) Material Library and (4) Fixes for You.

 

These 'clouds' were designed to convey the capabilities of the 3DT team to other MSD employees and how they could collaborate with them.

 

In addition, we have other types of panels that prompt users to interact with the exhibit in other ways - sketching their ideas or leaving behind broken parts for MSD's 3DT team to fix.

 

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Final Product

 

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The Team:

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FEEDBACK

TEAM MEMBERS

student Saw Man Lin Architecture and Sustainable Design
student Yong Qi Hui Janice Architecture and Sustainable Design
student Kadir Bahajjaj Engineering Product Development
student Pui Jia Ying Engineering Product Development
student Mason Petra Agung Engineering Systems and Design
student Muhammad Hazwan Bin Mohamed Hafiz Engineering Systems and Design

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