THE DISCOMFORTING CHAIR
Class: 4.500 - Design Computing
Materials: plywood, wood stain, bandsaw, belt sander
The discomforting chair is designed around a specific user experience: encouraging emotional connection through physical proximity. The chair is a two person chair with a seat that is angled in a way that forces the two users to accept the physical proximity in order to be comfortable in the chair.
The process of building the chair from ideation to fabrication involved several stages. The design began with visualizing multiple different iterations using Rhinoceros. Once the form was finalized, I created several lasercut prototypes to test out the assembly process and the stability of the chair. The full scale chair was then cut on a CNC machine and assembled.
I modeled the initial chair as a solid in Rhinoceros and manually split the geometry into parts that would be strategically connected with finger joints and mortise and tenon joints.
