Week 07: Make Something Big
Time to work LARGE SCALE
I just recently moved into a new apartment, and with this new empty living space, I needed to fill it with new furniture. For this week's project, I decided to utilize the shop-bot in studio and make an ergonomic chair as the first furniture project.
Using the contour of the shape the body has of sitting back in a relaxed form in a chair/seat, I sketched out a form and decided how to make this into a stable structre. Using a similar technique I had been utilizing in some of my table tops I had constructed for my apartment, I created pockets for horizontal slats to fit into the facades of the chair.
I want to either make it a lounge chair or a more upright, casual chair.
Quick google image search ("contemporary modern chair"), Looking at a few chair designs for inspiration, I desided on my design. I carved out some slots for strips of wood to slide in and connect 2-3 facades together to form the chair.
Update: The most recent iteration was split into 2 parts and can create 2 different chair forms.
Cutting pattern placed into the shopbot software
Cutting the pattern
Cutting the slats
Making the slats to fit into the shopbot cut profile patterns
Inserting the slats and gluing them in
Finished Product
Playing with the form to make other versions using the same profiles
