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Connections Souvenir

Design and Fabrication: Fernando Maytorena

Date: July 2012

Tutor: Paul Pettigrew (IIT)

Fabrication Technique: Laser cutter

Materials: Birch plywood and stainless steel screws and washers

 

     The product design brief stated three main objectives: the object had to work as a souvenir for the two-month traveling made throughout the four cities visited during the IIT-ITESM Summer Joint Program; the product had to be one the students could use on a daily basis; and lastly, the product had to be a portable object due to the last flight yet to be taken by ITESM students, from Chicago back to Mexico.


     A hanging lamp and a side table work together as a single vertical element to express a metaphor for connections. They announce the relationship between the four visited cities, the one between neighboring Mexico and United States, the ever-present relationship between light and reading, and the universal relationship in product design between users and their activities.


Connections Souvenir consists of two separated wooden modules where each of their side panels serve a latticework function due to the diffuse light they exert for a better reading environment. For an easy transportation, each side panel can be detached and saved on a medium-sized suitcase.

Architecture Portfolio, Architecture Student Mexico
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