Esquisses 4

On tuesday class, we were asked be groups of two or three to design and create a 1:1 cardboard furniture. Me, Alex and Brodie came up with a design that utilize both mine and Alex's esquisses 3 locking mechanism. Below are images of documentation of the design process.

this illustrates the designing process

we were trying to create the furniture in 1 piece of cardboard

ta da.....its our chair design..........at the end we altered the design a little by puting in the slotting triangulation mechanism i did for esquisses 3 inside that hollow space u see here to support the structure of the chair.

Then yesterday we met up and finish this piece of furniture in 1:1 scale.

measuring and putting in dimensions, and the cut out of our chair



After that we try to put the chair together and make the base structure inside the chair



this is the base i was talking about before, it is the main structure that holds up the chair, and allowing it to support a person's weight.


at the end, we made the chair after all the hard work! :)
YAY its solid and can hold up a person's weight!

history assignment and NGV in depth research

video on NGV furniture collection

I've found a video by Professor Adrian Franklin who talks about “chair trilogy” by bringing us to the end of the 20th century and the NGV collection.

Its worth a look while doing the assignment if we cant remember the trip to NGV :P






Clip 2 at time 01:03 talks about the Wiggle Chair of the Frank Gehry furniture collection at NGV

heres another one on youtube ...its auction of the Frank Gehry Chair on ebay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b02u07v-CYw

anyways, hopefully someone will find this video useful :)

Esquisse three

This esquisse require us to design a locking system from what we have learned in previous studio classes. I decided to go with locking system but playing with forms. due to the limitation of material i couldn't design something that is long in shape, so therefore i decided to play with stacking and slotting.

During my experiments, i was taught that by scoring the piece of cardboard will weaken the structure, so therefore i have fold it to create the bottom part. I also doubled the cardboard for the bottom just to make it stronger, and the final product feels very solid.