Academic year/semester: 2025/26/2

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 0
Seminarium:0
Practice: 0
Laboratory: 5
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: Freehand Drawing I.

Course Leader: Dóra Papp-Vid DLA

Faculty: Rejtő Sándor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering, 1034 Budapest, Doberdó utca 6.

Course Description:
Developing a creative design approach to the design of industrial products, understanding the concept of design in design. Modelling studies help to understand the analogies between natural and technical systems and their application in design.

To learn about the properties of different types of materials, both discipline-specific and modelling materials, and to explore the possibilities of shaping them. Innovative experiments in the design of spatial forms.

Modular structures, connection laws. Proportion systems, dimensional and material properties, possibilities for further development of spatial structures in leather, paper, plastic and textile.

Functionality and visual appearance.

Taxonomy of geometric and organic forms. Analysis of the laws of geometric and natural forms. The concept and uses of modelling. Development of a design engineering vision for the development of form through the representation of the basic shapes that make up geometric models, the study of their characteristics and properties. Analysis of organic shapes through the production of study drawings. Scale modelling of natural forms. Production of models from geometric shapes.

Competences:
- Knowledge of basic design principles and methods, major manufacturing processes and operational procedures. - Knowledge of the main raw materials used in product design, their production and conditions of use. - Knowledge of the main analogies between natural and technical systems and their application in design. - Ability to translate solutions developed in nature into engineering practice. - Knowledge of basic design concepts and the principles of their dimensioning. - Knowledge of the basic rules and technological constraints of product design, content and form. - Ability to design simple products in terms of form and construction, taking into account technological constraints, expected costs and environmental impact. - He/she will endeavour to keep his/her self-training in industrial product and design engineering continuous and in line with his/her professional goals.

Topics:
1.

Description of the tasks of the semester. (PPT). Introduction to course contents and requirements. Form and structure of study drawings.

2.

Modular structures from paper units I.

Study drawing of organic forms I.

3.

Modular structures from paper units II.

Study drawing of organic forms II.

4.

Modular structures from paper units III. Documentation.

Study drawing in several views I.

5.

Modular structures made of paper strips I.

Study drawing in several views II.

6.

Modular structures made of paper strips II.

Structural study drawing simplified form

7.

Modular structures made of paper strips (triaxial) III. Documentation.

Modelling with plasticine I.

8.

Surface design I.

Modelling with plasticine II.

9.

Surface design II.

Modelling with paper I.

10.

Surface design III.

Modelling with paper II.

11.

Relationship between letter and form I. Submission.

Monochrome form abstraction

12.

Relationship between letter and form I.

Two-color form abstraction

13.

Working on still missing tasks.

Submission of documentation (PPT) for semester work.

14.

Evaluation.

Assessment:  Week 4: Modular structure I. Documentation Week 7: Modular structure II. Documentation Week 11: Submission of surface design models Week 13: Documentation of modelling Week 14: Supplementary submissions and evaluation

Exam Types:

Mid Term Exam

Compulsory bibliography: https://elearning.uni-obuda.hu/ PPT-s and aids prepared by the instructor J. Robert Rossman , Mathew D. Duerden: Designing Experiences. Columbia University Press, New York, United States, 2019. ISBN13 9780231191685 Paul Jackson: Folding Techniques for designers: From Sheet to Form. 2022. Quercus Publishing. ISBN10 1856697215, ISBN13 9781856697217 Paul Jackson: Cut and Fold Techniques for Pop-Up Designs. Laurence King Publishers, 2014. ISBN13 (EAN): 9781780673271

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