Exploded stool

Layout

Branding

Perspective render

The Final Cut

Design Development

Concept Development

Concept Development

Concept Development

Concept chair

Concept Development

A backrest has been added and support provided in vertical planes at the back of the chair. The angled frontal support gives this chair a quirky air. I have to look at the proportions and making the seat narrower, and how the support elements attach to each other.

Concept Development

This model further explores the tail like element as stabiliser. I think it would sit well in the Design Made Trade fair, the tail gives it a dynamic form. The locking mechanisms still have to be resolved, and I'd like to work on the seat and introduce a backrest

Concept Development

In this model I was interested in using texture in small slits through the backrest. Also, the chair would provide greater comfort with more support. It needs a resolution for the seat which is not attached to the base structure and would unfold too readily.

Concept Development

This stool uses an inward fold that supports the seat, and helps rigidify the structure. I like the tail-like element poking through.

Concept Development

Continuing with the idea of creating texture, this version relied on a webbed, woven panel that lies on a structure with a curved profile, something like a sun chair. I didn't succeed in attaching the seat to the frame though, and imagined that weaving the xanita would be very challenging.

Concept Development

I was interested in creating texture in the flat planes of the first model in this mock up. The perpendicular vertical planes of this stool create an accordion like form, which could serve as a surface for striking branding.

Concept Development

An initial idea, creating a curve for comfort. The corners of the upright elements are put under a lot of strain however. The proportions of this model are out too, it would topple very easily. It would require a healthy locking system to strengthen the laterals too.

Origami Chair Video

This video with an eerie soundtrack features a chair with back and armrest that is folded using origami techniques.

SIT

This is an entry for a competition held in the USA for undergraduate architecture students, to design a chair made with cardboard. This one allows the use of glues, but otherwise shares a similar brief to 'into the fold's'. On the site there are dozens of posters of entries, with drawings and photos of the resolutions.

Design Made Trade - Royal Melbourne Exhibition Buildings Site Analysis, 1

Design Made Trade - Fair Analysis

Esquisse 4

I worked with Claire and Lou to develop our chair design. We began by sketching out some ideas and making some quick paper mockups. We finally settled on a design formed by three triangular forms that make a chair with a low back rest.

Our 1 to 2 model was made in rigid black card, and enabled us to better develop the closing mechanisms and proportions of our final model.

Different tabs and insertions were developed at this stage to best attach the three triangular forms in this central articulation.

Cutting the 1 to 1 version required careful eye hand coordination in order to avoid cutting through to the floorboards. The cardboard we used carried heavy folds and cuts from its former life as packaging, making weaknesses in the otherwise sturdy product.

In order to give the chair much needed internal support, we added some upright profile elements as fins that give rigidity to the triangular forms.

Our resolution in all its glory. Although it has inherent structural dilemmas still to address, the chair has potential to be developed.

B4U - Group C

B4U - Group B

B4U - Group A

NGV visit and in-depth investigation

Esquisse 3 - Weight bearing structure

This week's task involved creating a load bearing object, h200mm, with a locking system, capable of supporting 100kg. It was challenging to find a resolution that both locked and provided the required strength. Triangulation proved to be a reliable structural solution.

My finished object

Design sketches. This final version was only arrived at via a path of folly and several failed ventures.

This is part of the toblerone adoration series

I call this woeful experiment my baby giraffe

I began making a mock up of the final in paper, in an attempt to visualise the structure in its actual form

Structural elements criss cross across the loadbearing plate, slotting into each other for a stable core

Side flaps are inserted on an upward angle. In future, I would double up this flap in order to make a sturdier insertion into the structural elements

And voila! A weight bearing structure! 100kg? We'll see tomorrow...