Concept Models

 For our design, I have thought of two different versions of extending the raincoat. Here's the recap: The idea is to take an existing object made for one person and modify it so that it works for two people. Our model will be based off a raincoat.

Version 1: A zipper will run from the top of the hood down to the back such that when it is unzipped, two people can share the raincoat.

Front View

Front View Extended

 Back View

Back View Extended

Version 2: The idea is still the same (extends at the back) but this time, we have an oversized hood and only focus on overlapping the extension over the back with buttons. When it is unbuttoned, it will stretch out. 

Front View

Front View Extended

Back View

Back View Extended

Rough ideas for Two People

Idea 1: A hoodie for two people with a frontal zipper.
Idea 2: A backpack for two people, Joined at the middle for more storage

Final Result, Draping Form

Materials Used: Flashing Galvanized, a bought belt (should've found smaller size, BLACK) and the size was too long, blue ribbon from Paper Presentation.

Fabrication Process

I ran out of sheet metal, had to buy some more to finish transferring my templates. Because it is hard to cut hole patterns into the material, the professor offered me an alternative way to pattern a bowtie. It involves splitting up the 32 "squares" into 4 pieces each. Do the math, 128 pieces. Tiny pieces. 

 Above is my workspace for templating. (In 6 East 16th Street building 6th floor)

 Over here, I am at the woodshop processing my materials. I used the giant metal cutter as well as the metal shears. I am about halfway done with cutting.

 Another two hours in and I found a way to organize the parts as well as started to drill holes in the forms.

 After all the holes and pieces have been taped up, I fanned out the parts to see if there were any imperfect cuts. Luckily there was only a few pieces that I had to retrim.

Out of curiosity, I taped up the pieces like I did for the bristol model to see if it would fit the form. I made a makeshift belt out of masking tape and who would've thought. It worked!

The original apron done with bristol strips on a female figure. Surprisingly fits my waist. 

After the bristol strip model was made, I cut the apron into four separate parts for the patter to grid. The pieces were not completely flat so I cut darts to create a flat plane. Below is after a grid has been established and systematically numbered.  

 After each individual square was cut out, I retaped those squares to recreate the apron. The belt was cut out of the original bristol strip and reused. Below are two views of the model. I plan on using the white board (Crescent board?) for the model.