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When creating furniture, especially for a work place/school environment, it is important to make sure your design is ergonomic.

Now... what does ergonomics mean? Here's a little quick lesson :D

*Ergonomics (n)

ERGO: meaning work; NOMOS: meaning laws

Ergonomics is a science focused on the study of human fit, and decreased fatigue and discomfort through product design.

With that being said, when I created my first prototype model, it at the time was not model to fit the human body - as in it was scaled just not that right measurements. *So after looking at the common office environment posture measurements and my own, I created my second prototype - adapting it.

With that, here is the new and improved model!!

+ orthographic sketches

Other than that, that was all for day 4.

*⁽ᵀʰⁱˢ ⁱˢ ᵃˡˡ ᵃᶜᶜᵒʳᵈⁱⁿᵍ ᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ʳᵉᵃᵈⁱⁿᵍˢ ᵐʸ ᵖʳᵒᶠᵉˢˢᵒʳ ʰᵃˢ ᵖʳᵒᵛⁱᵈᵉᵈ ᵐᵉ.⁾

On day 5, we had one and ones with our professor (we as in my class).

After conversating with him, we agreed that while my prototype model stood good on itself, it needed some more stability and joinery connection - telling me where to put them. And after analyzing my arm rest, he did ask that I lower it and make it more ergonomic as it was too high. He did like my sketches and model overall though!

I still have yet to redo my model with the new critique, but I did start on my sketches and where to move forward with this as shown below.

I spent day three of this project in my studio class block (which is three hours btw O-o) and I felt I was able to get a lot further into my actual concept models!

My first concept model was the one from my last post, and as I worked, I was dedicate to building off and improving off of each model I created until I was satisfied.

In order to do that, I created some sketches first of how I wanted to proceed.

This is what I got (also one of my sharpie pens broke :( ...) ->

To be honest, my second model was so bad, I didn't even try finishing it...

The block of cardboard was supposed to be its base but after analyzing how poorly structured this model was, I decided to use to towards the next concept.

The next concept was not that far off from the second design - I just realize I probably just had to simplified my design, leading to the protype for my final design.

Voila! The protype chair for my final concept design! + sketches

She is currently a back up character for my dnd campaign that I'm currently in! I recently redesigned her and I'm kind of proud of how it came out!!

It was a bit more complicated than I thought but so far I like to think I am making progress on my second day of playing with cardboard.

I understand the importance of triangles and grids structures and how quite stable they could be, so I wanted to start off my exploration there. And sadly, I had quite a bit of trial and error in the beginning. SO with that being said, here are my findings :D ->

I first attempted to make some triangle structures, placing a textbook on top of them so I could stand on it. As you can see, it did not handle up good.

So I decided to focus on how I had created the triangles and try to find a way to make them much more sturdy. I knew grids made for good support, so I had played around with making grids with the cardboard before incorporating triangles.

I quickly found out that depending on the sturdiness of the carboard and how I layered it, I could make a strong enough structure to uphold my weight.

With that, I went back to my original triangle method, incorporating my findings. And just like I found out, it all depended on what type of cardboard I used and how I layer it.

I created two double layered triangular grid shapes and tested them to see which would hold up. And just as stated before, it all depended on how sturdy the cardboard was to begin with.

With this, I was able to create my first concept model for my cardboard chair design :)

PS. Sorry for some of the blurry photos - took them in the dead out night.

Currently in my studio class, we have a new project for this semester to create a chair made from cardboard.

When I first started, I was looking at different case studies with my classmates and had found out about a Cardboard Cafe in the Mumbai Central Business District.

https://www.stirworld.com/see-features-cardboard-caf-by-mumbai-based-architecture-firm-nudes

Pretty neat, no :D?

The material they used was 100% recyclable and biodegradable cardboard. The designers, Nuru Karim’s architectural firm Nudes, realized that cardboard provided high-quality sound absorption properties. And in order to help prevent any damage to the cardboard furniture such as water damage and overtime wear and tear - it was soaked in wax. From what I read, the designers spent much time focusing on the way cardboard worked and ways to create intricate stable patterns with the way the cardboard was cut, angled, and layered upon itself.

As I was also in the process of understanding how to use cardboard myself for my project - I looked into the information of their findings.

I looked into how they used different angles and cuts to create sturdy structures and patterns, for when I start to go into my own designs.

For now, that's all I was able to do on day one of my project. I did do much more research as well as my other classmates, but these are the findings I was most interested in sharing!

I had gotten a pomegranate yesterday and was so excited to open it when I got back to my dorm. But when I opened it, it was rotten already and I had to throw it out :( So I decided to draw a pomegranate instead with conte crayons and prismacolor pencils <3