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New York City, NY

Toni Ann Hoffman

One Small Step For Women

Class: 3D Modelling
School Year: Freshman, Spring

With the basis of creating a public sculpture, I was inspired by the works and research conducted by Katherine Johnson, specifically her calculations for NASA.

 

The piece shows details of her trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard’s May 1961 Freedom 7 mission. With this, I also included the Apollo 11 Command Module, since she was part of the team that calculated the path to get to and from the Moon.

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The final piece presents Johnson's calculations beside a visual of the Apollo 11 Command Module.

Public Piece

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Keeping in mind this would be displayed to the public I wanted to create a piece that made the user walk around the piece and truly explored all its details as a while rather than stay their stagnantly.

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Focus Subject​

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The piece revolved around Katherine Johnsons, an American mathematician who calculated and analyzed numerous flight paths of multiple spacecrafts during her time with the U.S. space program. 

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She did calculations for Alan Shepard's trajectory and the Apollo 11 mission that helped computed the path from and to the Moon.

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Although Katherine held an abundance of accomplishments in her life time, I chose to focus on her calculations specifically.

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Process

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I started off with lisitng all her calculations as accurately I could with past records. In a true setting these would be served as plaques covering the entire strutcure.

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This layout and assembly was as close to the trajectory notes as I could get.

Body

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The body mimics the moon, a significant part of Katherine's career. With this I created a light up clay base to serve as the base of the entire structure.

Alan Shepard's Trajectory​

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Katherine Johnson did the trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard’s May 1961 Freedom 7 mission. 

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This is the main piece I focused on through looking at the numerous accomplishments she held.

Concept Model

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I created a 3D Model to better understand my vision with this project. With this I created a light up moon base that holds a rotating structure made from wood and recycled materials.

Imagined Space

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I envisioned this piece to sit at the center of the NASA Central Campus Headquarters Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

 

I chose this to be an important donation to the NASA headquarters and emphasize the need to praise and treasure such an accomplished woman who I believe was one of the most important people during many of their missions.

Final Design

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The overall render helps get a cleaner look, creating a neater environment. Althoguh for the final piece I would still go with the clay base that mimics the moon. The rotating structure would be recycled metal from old NASA projects.

 Apollo 11 Command Module

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As Katherine helped with the calculations to get from and to the moon I included the module to nod to this accomplishment.

Alan Shepard's Trajectory

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The plaques suurounding the rotating structure would contain the trajectory notes Katherine used for the Freedom 7 mission in May 1961, America's first human spaceflight.

Movement

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The peice would rotate back in a circle as the Module would move around the notes.

Moon Base​

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With Katherine's accomplishments with the Moon mission I decided to include a light up moon base to highlight the overall piece in the indoor setting.

Do not hesitate to contact me to discuss a possible project or learn more about my work!

2022 Design Portfolio by Toni Ann Hoffman

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Currently Studying at Parsons School of Design

New York City, NY, USA

Contact
Email: Toniannfhoffman@gmail.com

Instagram: @Toniannfhoffman

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