The pineapple kiosk

The Pineapple Kiosk is a 24h pop-up kiosk serves Pineapple juice and held pineapple party with RCA interior crews. It was made by 24 sheets of polypropylene boards, 66 binding crews, 154 sets of screw kits, and 308 colored super clips. It was 2 meters in height, and 1.7 meters in width, which could contain 3 staffs inside the kiosk, and the horizontal boards between the vertical arms can be used as shelves and the serving platform.

During the 10-days making process, our four group members take turns as group leaders everyday, and each person responded for different parts: calculations, digital modeling, categorizing materials, and finally built up together like flow line producing process.

- Space type:

Contemporary Kiosk / Installation

- Time:

November 2022

- Designed by:

Teresia Guest, Jiawen Li, Zixuan Gao, Yujia He

(Figure above: Pineapple Party serving Pineapple juice in the rest room of the Steve's Building, Royal College of Art)

brain storming -

Before we decided the construction of the kiosk, some draft paper models were made to try out different possibilities without considering the material.

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The main challenge was how to fully use the characteristics of the material we were given – the polypropylene boards. Through our explorations, we found the following rules:

1. Place 2 layers of the polypropylene boards in different directions will make the structure even stronger.

2. The more times you fold it in different directions, the more stronger it will become.

3. The bigger the weaker. Following these found outs, we decided the structure and how every pieces should be made and connected.