Goal

The Mahjouba I installation requires additional documentation and visualisations to showcase its interior design and assembly to the general public at the Design Museum in London. As a guiding aesthetic, 3D components and exploded renders should emulate the minimalistic style used in IKEA installation manuals.

Context

Mahjouba I is the first of a series of prototypes to build an electric motorbike made primarily using African craft in combination with 3D printing for the Moroccan market. Mahjouba (an old Arabic female name from the word Mahjoub, which means the veil put over sacredness) is a contemporary Moroccan-crafted copy of a bad Chinese copy of an average Chinese copy of a good Japanese motorbike from the 1970s.

A primary goal for this design is that it can be domestically built and cheaply maintained using only craft components or readily available “off-the-shelf” parts.

Constraints

• Prototype Availability: The motorbike is already installed at the London Design Museum awaiting display. There is only 1 day available to disassemble the model for reference photography and measurement.

• Non-photorealism: Installation manuals typically utilise line illustrations to simplify complex assembly spaces.

Criteria

• Visual Appeal: A good design should be aesthetically pleasing whilst maintaining a clear and consistent aesthetic across all output.

• Accuracy: Good renders will represent each component's dimensions and how they fit together, as faithfully to the prototype as possible.

• Simplicity: Visualisations should clearly showcase how the prototype is assembled to as wide of an audience as possible.

• Flexibility: All output could be used across a wide variety of mediums including posters, leaflets and instruction manuals.