REALIZATION OF THE PROTOTYPE

TRANSFORMATION 3: SMALL CARPET

The base of the turtle becomes a small carpet.

TRANSFORMATION 2

The bag can be open, hang on the wall and it becomes a place where Caterina put whatever she wants in the pockets.

TRANSFORMATION 1: BAG

When Caterina grows up the cloth of the bag is coupled thought the velcro and it becomes a bag for training with a lot of pockets.

METABOLIC TOYS: TURTLE BAG

When Caterina was a very shy child her parents give her an object that will accompany him throughout his life :a sleeping bag shaped like a turtle but not just a sleeping bag in which you sleep, one where Caterina can be isolate ad hide from the world.











MATERIALS:

- BAG:

CVS Linen Jute
C.V.S. DISTRIBUTOR CO., LTD
MC#: 5610-01
Category: Naturals - Woven textiles
Country of manufacture / Origin: Thailand
Distributed in:
North America, Europe, Asia, Australia
Natural fiber woven textiles from cotton and jute. They may be colored to order, and are also available with antibacterial, water and stain repellent, and other special finishes. 60% Jute is woven with 40% cotton to create this textile available in 40 and 54 in (102 and 137 cm) widths. Applications are for residential upholstery, shoes, bags, curtains, and decorative items.

- BASE OF THE TURTLE:



Bonded Acoustical Pad (BAP)
Acoustical Surfaces Inc.
MC#: 5174-01
Category: Naturals
Country of manufacture / Origin: USA
Disttriution in:North America,Europe, Asia, Australia
Insulation made from recycled, recyclable natural fibers. Composed of post-industrial denim and cotton fibers treated with a boron-based flame retardant, that also serves as an anti-fungal agent, this is an alternative to fiberglass insulation as it does not irritate the skin, and has superior thermal and acoustical properties. The insulation has a Class A fire rating and smoke developed index and is manufactured in 16.50 in and 24.50 in widths (0.4191 m and 0.6223 m), compared with standard 15 in and 23 in (0.38 and 0.58 m) fiberglass widths. It may be custom die cut into specific shapes and sizes and is also available in 2, and 3 ply layers with carpet padding backings or aluminum backings. It is used as building and automotive insulation, sound insulation, and decorative accents.

- VELCRO: for unite the bag on the base of the turtle

Velcro® Brand Products
MC#: 6455-01
Category: Polymers - Fastening materials
Country of manufacture / Origin: USA

This is a single-component hook and loop fastener with alternating rows of nylon hooks and loops on the same surface side. The material is a one-piece fastener that can attach to itself. The material is available in white and black. The fastener is available in 25 yd (1.8 m) rolls in the following widths: 0.625 in (15.9 mm), 0.75 in (19 mm), 1 in (25.4 mm), 1.5 in (38.1 mm), and 2 in (50.8 mm). Applications include labeling, clinic and hospital patients, and temporary fastening and securing of objects.

- SHOULDER OF THE BAG



O-Wool Washable
Vermont Organic Fiber Co
MC#: 5480-03
Category: Naturals - Natural fibers
Country of manufacture / Origin: USA
Distributed in:
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia
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Organic, chlorine-free, washable wool. This knit (jersey or interlock) fabric is made with low-micron merino wool grown and cerified to the USDA’s National Organic Program standard and processed to the Oeko-Tex 100 standard through the shrink treatment process. This organic washable wool is offered as 100% wool or a blend of 55% wool and 45% organic cotton. Under a microscope, raw wool fiber appears to be covered in scales. These scales are gently removed through a process that uses non-toxic hydrogen peroxide. Compared to most washable wool which is scoured with chlorine to remove the scales and coated with synthetic resins, this process leaves the wool with a soft hand, strong fibers, naturally shrink and odor resistant, has superior moisture management and is insulative. Sold in rolls 50 yd (45.72 m) in length with a range of widths from 58 to 65 in (1473.2 to 1651 mm) and weights of 150, 230 or 250 g/m2 (4.425, 6.785 or 7.375 oz/yd2). Available in black, charcoal and navy, with custom colors available for special order. Applications are for sportswear apparel, bedding and baby products.

CATERINA SONFLA

Catherine, was born on 10 August 1992 in Perugia and her Zodiac sign is Leon. She was a quiet shy girl and maybe too good, but has a creative soul and her passion are buildings what she wants with Legos and drawing the world around her. Loves turtles, because like them when he needs to be alone she retreats into herself.
When she was 6 her parents give her an object that will accompany him throughout his life :a sleeping bag shaped like a turtle but not just a sleeping bag in which you sleep, one that when you feel like a turtle you can walk like it!. Catherine grows and with it also his character changes, she becomes extrovert, gregarious, chatty and the shyness that first accompanied her inside the sleeping bag turns into great inventiveness and self-esteem so at the age of 14 years decides to attend the art school for evolver his ego. She’s no longer a child so she wants transform the sleeping bag so transforming the shell where she was hiding in a bag to put behind it as his timidity, maybe to symbolize his farewell to shyness. The bag has many pockets tear, in which she puts her good luck, her dear diary, his box full of crayons and even tricks of his early teens and when she wants she can open the bag and hang it on the wall.
Catherine grew up with her passions, loves dancing but her shyness sometimes emerges and is ashamed to show her moves in front of all, so opening the closet trying to find a little carpet and she find it under her sleeping bag. She decided to turn the base of the sleeping bag into a kind of stage on which she dances and sings or she can use the little carpet to stand in front of the TV and watch her favorite programs.

ECO DESIGN

The positive and sustainable in this sitting called "Cabbage chair" are many. First of all it is created from a waste material (and that alone is a very important factor) but it is important to note also that the creation of Cabbage chair not been used or elements to stiffen the structure, or glues, or screws. The zig-zag structure of the paper, in fact, gives a strong form of rigidity (increased by the treatment to which the resin sheets are submitted) together with an effective "cushion" gave elasticity of folded sheets.

ECO DESIGN

Products Verterra, mostly plates and trays are stylish and versatile and are having a sustainable message extremely intense. These products are made from the dried leaves of the trees (the ones that are usually shelved by the roadside before being burned). Verterra transforms these materials to "scrap" items into raw materials for the high aesthetic value and sustainable.
For the production of these products uses only steam and a press to squeeze the most of the leaves (precedentempente sterilized by UV). 80% of all water used for the production process is captured and reused to produce additional steam.

CRADLE TO CRADLE

Cradle to Cradle Design (sometimes abbreviated to C2C or in some circles referred to as regenerative) is a biomimetic approach to the design of systems. It models human industry on nature's processes in which materials are viewed as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. It suggests that industry must protect and enrich ecosystems and nature's biological metabolism while also maintaining safe, productive technical metabolism for the high-quality use and circulation of organic and synthetic materials. Put simply, it is a holistic economic, industrial and social framework that seeks to create systems that are not just efficient but essentially waste free.[1] The model in its broadest sense is not limited to industrial design and manufacturing; it can be applied to many different aspects of human civilization such as urban environments, buildings, economics and social systems.

DEFINITION
- Cradle to Cradle phrase; essentially a play on the "Cradle to Grave" phrase, implying that the C2C model is sustainable and considerate of life in general.
- Technical nutrients are basically inorganic or synthetic materials manufactured by humans--such as plastics and metals--that can be used many times over without any loss in quality, staying in a continuous cycle.
- Biological nutrients and materials are organic materials that can decompose into the natural environment, soil, water, etc. without affecting it in a negative way, providing food for bacteria and microbiological life.
- Materials are usually referred to as the building blocks of other materials, such as the dyes used in colouring fibers or rubbers used in the sole of a shoe.
- Downcycling is a term used to describe what is conventionally known as recycling, which is seen as "downcycling" materials into lesser products, a plastic computer housing becomes a plastic cup, which then becomes a park bench, eventually becoming waste.
- Waste Food is a basic concept of organic waste materials becoming food for bugs, insects and other small forms of life who can feed on it, decompose it and return it to the natural environment which we then indirectly use for food ourselves.

THE STORY OF LEGO BRICKS

In 1932, in the village of Billund, Denmark, the carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen invented the famous LEGO bricks in wood. In 1932 a fire scattered on the ground the factory so it was decided to abandon the production of wood to focus on plastics and the LEGO bricks becomes in nitrocellulosa. In 1963, the nitrocellulose is replaced by plastic ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) not toxic and not flammable which is still used today. The main factories of LEGO is in Danemark but there are others factories in Brazil, Switzerland and China. Lego are exported in 130 countries by plane and trucks. In all over the world you can buy LEGO in toy stores and when you become an adult you can give it to more children because the bricks are very durable.