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
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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.
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