3D Hollow Form Object Hybrid Project

Here are my seven original objects I came up with for concept generation: 

1&2.

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My partner for this project is Ben Ewacha. For my contribution to the hybrid I chose to work with the swirling vase design I came up with the week prior. I had done a bunch of variations the vase by playing around with the loft style and here is what I had come up with: 

Together Ben and I chose to work with the vase to the left of the middle. 

Here are two of Ben's design inspo from his own objects:

From here we did some brainstorming and we were both interested in creating a cage like structure that would swirl in the opposite direction around the vase. I did some preliminary sketches on my white board:

Here is where we got to in Rhino:

1. is the first cage/lattice design

2. was the first hybrid idea put together

3. is the first shape change for the cage/lattice because I thought it would look better attached to the surface of the vase 

4. is what the updated cage/lattice looked like on it's own

5. is the vase and cage/lattice put together again without a base 

A. are the vase stretched out to fit the size parameters and then brought back down to fit the cage/lattice structure into the box seen in 5 

We were running into problems with Ben's first cage/lattice design in slicer so we redid it and here is our final hybrid shape (important to note that we're still having a slicer issue with the new design but we're waiting to see if Bryan can help before scrapping it). 

Side view and top view: