Thursday, June 18, 2020

Terminology - Face shields (visières de protection) (5) Ratnayake (Studio Lo)


Copyright © Françoise Herrmann

Pano chair (2008)
 Ratnayake
Pano Chair (2008)
Aruna Ratnayake, the well-known, Studio Lo  designer-maker of the folded Pano Chair (2008), also posted a free downloadable face shield design, in response to shortages of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), arising out of the COVID 19 emergency situation. The Ratnayake face shield design is called the Folded Face Shield (2019). 

Widely used, fabricated, and distributed to individuals-in-need by the Fab City Metropolitan Paris makers’ lab, in France, and elsewhere, the Aruna Ratnayake face shield is a laser-cut only design. The face shields are fabricated and assembled super swiftly, using a laser cutter to cut out the double headbands, which are then folded and assembled, together with the visor and elastic band. 

The  Ratnayake Folded Face Shields  are made out of: 
  • a cutout sheet of PET or polypropylene (0.5 -1.5 mm thick, 720 x 250 mm) for 11 double headbands
  • a sheet of Rhodoid plastic (A4) for the visor
  • an elastic band
Below, the GitLab specifications for the Ratnayake Folded Face Shield design, and a Volumes YouTube video showing the production and assembly lines of the Ratnayake face shields.

Ratnayake
Folded Face Shield (2019) 



References
Aruna Ratnayake and  Eva Guillet (2013) In Green Design: Creative Sustainable Designs for the Twenty-First Century  by Marcus Fairs, p. 100-101, London, UK: Carlton Bks Ltd.`
GitLab - Folded Face Shield - Project ID 17819258https://gitlab.com/volumes1/visi-re-plexi-volumes

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