Digital material culture 2022-2023
Rsleen Abo Suis
The basic idea of the mashrabiya, we chose it to be a mashrabiya that opens and closes according to movement, as when someone approaches the mashrabiya, it closes and when it moves away, it opens. Among the benefits of this mashrabiya: It enhances the user experience by providing a sense of interaction and response to the environment, allow- ing natural ventilation and daylight, as the mashrabiya adjusts its location based on the movement of people, which improves air flow and sunlight penetration After imagining the shape in our head, we tried to draw it and then print it with a laser (the large plank is 10 cm and the small one is 5) and also to bring a connector so that it can connect the planks to each other.
In our first attempt: after presenting our idea, we started thinking about the shape of the mashrabiya we want so we chose a shape that resembles a star and printed it. The shape was good, but it had to be. More complex and exciting than that, linked to each other.
The second attempt: after developing the shape further and printing it, we made progress, but it wasn't enough, so
There were some mistakes in the printing, and we got confused about what to use in printing the shape.
After that we trird to made a sketcher for the shape of the mashrabiya we are planning.
The mashrabiya in reality is 2 meters * 50 cm", we thought of making a frame that opens and closes manually, but it didn't work, so we tried one more time and in the end we decided to think of a different frame, regarding the final shape of the mashrabiya, we changed it in order to give more of a sense of privacy.
In order to activate the movement in the mashrabiya, we thought of making a tool to open and close it, as well as a tool so that we can install it on the wall to be like a window
