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6) Parametric furniture Group Project (Digital Concepting)

 

So today we brought together all our concepts and it appears a lot of us had overlapping ones, which worked out pretty nicely. We're doing a table+shelf area plus chair/bench that fits perfecting under the table space when no one is sitting there, maybe it's called a nesting chair? Our group got broken into two main groups and a few that are just floating around so far until the physical building process, I got put into the chair concepting part. 

We initially discussed doing a parametric design after we went to the nest to measure around the area. Turns out parametric uses A LOT of wood and we would not have enough to do 56 pieces of para metric designs of ~40" x 24" pieces, multiplied by 2 because we planned for two desk spaces meaning two chairs. So we had to scrap that idea and the dimension planning, then decided to break up into individual concepting again to create a new bench chair design that would use less wood, maybe more planks and a design that is easier to assemble. Not everyone from the digital concepting are doing the physical building so it has to be easy to understand how to put them together, especially since we're going for an IKEA style assemble-process. 

I decided to use a different style of multifunctional design, one that is a chair but also is a storage platform which will also act as a stronger base. I didn't measure, whoops, I just wanted to get the concept across and build digitally to see what I can come up with. If my design gets chosen then I'll rebuild it and make it the correct measurements. 

The mini intersection pieces are horizontally centre aligned to the main plank piece based off of the red guidelines I made in this screenshot. The main planks are offset/moved 1/2 of the thickness space (if that made any sense...?) except for that last piece, I moved it slightly higher and curved it but technically it can align to the bottom and disappear in a way. 









With the "exploded" view of the bench/chair design, you can see where I BooleanDifferenced the separate panels and made them "fit" into each other so it's easier to assemble. And with the back pieces being an offset stacking design, it can also act as a handle for people to pull out the bench from under the table. The design has subtle curvature to the seat and backing that we discussed in our small groups, because we believe it's more comfy that a right angled bench. If we did need screws or nails to hold the pieces together it would be an easy process to just drill through the sides. 

The only problem I could imagine us running into would be the plywoods disliking a screw being drilled inbetween pieces. We could also do wood glue which would be a cleaner and simpler method? 

Things I need to improve if mine gets chosen is increasing the height of the chair "legs", maybe cropping the width of the bench a bit more so it's not such a snug-fit to the table. Then rounding some exposed edges to make sure it's not too "sharp" and dangerous, I think it's important to make sure clothing materials and bags won't be caught onto the edges, something smoother would definitely help. I think the plank design wouldn't be too hard to cnc, just stripes of wood and then a section/open pocket for the fitted pieces. We can sand down the sharp edges by hand instead of doing the cnc because it might not fully work if we round the opposite side (bottom) to the pocket since the CNC can't get into that section. 

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