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Open Kite

The project brief was about designing a product for play. While I was trying to explore the world of play, I was fascinated by Little Shining Man (Heather & Ivan Morrison, 2011), a huge cube shape kite which consists of hundreds of tetrahedral cells. Originally, Alexander Graham Bell invented this type of kite as a form of airplane about a hundred year ago, and Heather & Ivan Morrison translated Bell's invention into a flying sculpture. I decided to explore this intriguing architectural structure. When I tried to build my early versions of prototypes according to the instructions on the internet, I realised that building tetrahedral kites with drinking straws and tissue papers is quite labour intensive especially when I made it in bigger scale with many cells. So I designed 3D printable components for easier and faster kite building and also during the design process, I found out a way to make the structure collapsible, so that it can be flatten when not in use. Consequently, this tetrahedral kite became a more accessible ‘product’, because now it is easier to carry and store thanks to its collapsible feature.