Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Chair: Yesica, Peter and Kristine :]

Although I must admit that making a chair out of cardboard without glue was a bit frustrating specially when it came to trying to figure out the structure, our final group project was so much fun! :D We almost used the whole 4'x8' piece of cardboard and only had a few scraps that we used for our cup holder. :P

First we started with this sketch model that we took from a little sketch that I had made:







When we finished putting it together, we realized that we had used almost all of our cardboard and didn't have enough to create a support for the back. Epic fail! :D However, we learned from our mistakes and then Chrissy came up with another alternative for the base that would include a back support as well. Here is our second sketch model:









The second sketch looked like it had a lot more support, however, when we sat on it, the structure of the seat started to fall apart and couldn't support a person for a long time, nevertheless give them time to sit back and lay down their backs. So we needed to figure out a way for more support in the butt area and after a lot of thought decided to create some sort of triangle inside our triangle chair. It looked like this:



When we finally finished putting it together, we were soooo happy it worked! :D To celebrate we painted our chair silver because it looked like a lounge chair from the future and everything in the future is made of chrome! xD So our final chair came out looking like this:





Final schematics of our chair redrawn by Peter on Illustrator :D



People having fun in our chair! Yay! :]






The End. :D

Friday, April 30, 2010

Cardboard Chair: April, Dana & Raegan


Our group project was amazing and very enjoyable. Throughout the process we came into a few forks in the road but overall we came up with a pretty decent chair! Out of the 4'x8' cardboard we used every single piece.

Sketch: You can notice some slight differences in the frame, we constructed the final chair with more ideas and major decisions dealing with it's structure. Here are some photos of our process:










Final Chair


The inside of chair


Back of chair


Close up of side


Side


Front


Crit Photos:






It's all about the chairs.