Furniture design 2020
​Works done towards a course at Columbia College Chicago

As part of the activities that I undertook at Columbia during my professional placement year, I also attended a furniture making class, with the idea of using it to learn how to incorporate automated means of designing and making into my practice. 

Unfortunately, we had to go into lockdown when we had only been able to attend a few classes. However, I had already been able too produce to 1:1 models for a chair that was going to be my project.   

Software assisted design of the first model for the lounge chair project.

The structure of the second model being cut with a CNC machine.

Real size models for a project for a lounge chair. Plywood, cardboard and cabe ties. 85 x 85 x 90 cm each, approx.

I used plywood that I processed with a CNC machine and cardboard sheets that I cut with a laser cutter, to construct these models. I think that this way of making was successful at producing the 3 dimensional shapes that I was after nd which are sturdy enough to support a human body, and it is possible that I might try to incorporate this making process into my biomorphic sculptures. As a matter of fact, I chose to design a chair, as an object that already references a human body, through generating a space in which it fits, but which remains empty, while the chair is not in use.