Sarah Brodsky Week9: Chairs

Naked Edges PennyChair

Rendered 1 PennyChair

Rendered 2 PennyChair

NakedEdges MoonChair

Rendered 1 MoonChair

Rendered 2 MoonChair

The concept for these chair designs was to provide a comfortable back support to the consumer. The second design also has a desk space that includes a box that has outlets for charging purposes. These chair designs provide the user with a spacious and comfortable space. The desk space has different layers to provide for an optimum level of organization. These qualities are important for a travelling consumer. There back and neck are tired and there technology is dying. My design will create a comfortable and relaxing space.

To create the first design I created a curve using the curve planar line. Then I used the pipe command to create a thickness for the line I had drawn. I then used the ArrayLinear command to set the pipes side by side in an attractive manner. Next I copied and rotated each piece so that it fit in a square manner. I then created a circle to fit in the middle of the back facing chairs. I then used the Pipe command to again create a thickness for the chairs. For the other design I created a shape using the curve planar line tool. Then I extruded the shape and used the cap planar holes command to seal the shape. I then used the cylinder tool to create the two disk like desks on either side of the main desk area. To create the main desk area I used the rectangle tool. To make the edges softer I used the fillet command. 

For my first design I decided to only use copper. I felt that this was an attractive and recyclable material. It would be cheap and could be built by melting down pennies which are soon to probably leave US currency. For my other design I chose to use a blue plastic material for the seat which could be easily made of recycled water bottles or other plastic packaging material like plastic bags. I then chose to use a steel for the desk because it will be easy to clean and it will be shiny and attractive.