The new brief of Design II course is about the transformation of water and ice. The first thing that I did was searching through the internet about the ice and the water and also searches about the transformer of them. Then I found many ways that people play with it and I got many ideas to do with the ice and also the water.
The first idea was about to make the ice ice-cream. According to myself that I love to eat ice-cream so, I think of the easiest ways to make an ice-cream by myself. The method is to make normal water transform to an ice. You can make it by using any kind of water you want and then freeze it for 4 hours or more over a night. After a few hours, you will have an ice ice-cream serving by yourself at home. I think this is one of the best experiment with transformer water into ice because later the experiment, you can also eating your out come.
In April 2009, I had an opportunity to go to South Korea and there’s a place called “Ice Bar Sub-Zero” in Seoul. When I came into the bar, they had a welcome drink for me and it was contain by an ice-glass so, this thing inspired me to do this another experiment about ice and water. I did the ice-glass by freezing the water for almost 4 hours (It’s up to your glass size anyway.) to let it freeze. Later 4 times freezing the water, my ice-glass finally came out!
My third experiment is about to look at the ice when it get into a hot pan. First, I put the ice into many point of the hot pan to look at it that it’s split out or not but the result was it can combine itself together very fast and when the small dots of ice transform into water, its getting bigger together. Later they ran into each other, it’s like they are dancing and having fun in the hot pan!
When you look into the ice, you will notice that the color of the ice is not transparent at all. So, I did a research about how to make it clear and transparent. This is another experiment for me. The thing that make the ice is not clear is the water’s air and quality. To make it more like crystal clear is to double boiled water before you put the water into a freezer. I did it by using a stove and a microwave. I did twice, boiling the water and let it cool into a room temperature. The result of this experiment was I can use both stove and microwave to make a crystal clear ice and the color of the ice was really transparent.
Another experiment came out by using the ice from other experiment that doesn't work to make like a little ice sculpture. I put a piece of unclear ice into a saucer that has water and put it into a freezer so that it will fix into where it was. Then I put the clear one which got from the dissolve ice from a cup into it. The out come of my little ice sculpture doesn’t look good as my inspiration but I think it was another thing that experiences me because the weather makes the ice dissolve very fast and I have to fight for it to do my little ice sculpture!
