On the 11th of October, I started progress on my Gesamt Kunstwerk Bowl project, My Idea was to 3D print a bowl that was able to magnetically split and attach together.
The design Idea for my bowl is to decorate each separating piece with a painting of one of my Gesamt Kunstwerk choices, want I wanted to do is create a series collection of bowls that split into two, each one containing two of my Gesamt Kunstwerk choices, each piece would be decorated with one of my choices and once the two magnetically connect together there’s an image on the inside of the bowl that’s a combination of the two choices per bowl (e.g one bowl would have two pieces, one would be decorated in painted New York landmarks and one would be painted in the Lego pixelated style of Ai Wei Wei, once the pieces connect together the inside would show a painted image of the empire state building painted in pixelated artwork.
Practical Functionality
This one would have not one but two functions, the first one is to use it to hold either candy or acessories, dedending on the size and strength of the magnets (Liquids wouln’t be able to work because the bowl would leak and would affect the taste due to the resin, and would probably be a safety hazard.)
The other function would be for the bowl to split in half and would be able to magnetically attach to a magnetic wall, making into a small key bowl for the wall and again depending on the size of the pieces and the strength of the magnets it could potentially fit bigger items then keys.
Context
When thinking of ideas for my bowl to make it unique in build and function, I was no stranger to 3D printing and using magnets, I knew I would be able the create a basic bowl on Tinker cad as well as modify it to my own design, when it came to using magnets I’d be using the kind I experimented within both my previous project and in my free time, so when creating a cad file for the bowl, I knew it would be a lot simpler than just placing small squares into a pattern (colour coded) to create pixelated models.
The magnets
When it came to creating a unique design and feature for my own ideas, I was no stranger to 3D printing and using magnets, seen as how in my last major project, I included both concepts, as well as the idea of colliding multiple concepts together.
The Mark I
I began this by creating the bowl on Tinkercad
I then used the ‘hole tool’ to slice the bowl in half, after that I exported the design into an STL file and prepared it on Prusaslicer
Once the pieces were printed, washed, dried and cured, I then proceeded to mark and drill holes on the ends of each piece to fit the magnets using a Dremel then I used super glue to secure them in. The Mark one’s result was good but had a lot of problems, the shape was too thin (mainly at the bottom), I only used five magnets per pieces (this made it very easy to come apart) and I decided instead of drilling the holes onto the pieces, I would instead create the holes on CAD, this would them save me time from holes, so once the design would be finished, so I could go straight to glueing in the magnets.
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