11/21/2017 0 Comments Chair Design ExerciseThis week in class we worked on designing and creating a model of a chair. My team, which was Grace, Kayden, and I, took a different approach to the prompt. We still designed a chair, but it was of a different nature than the other chairs. We designed a chair that was almost egg-like, hanging from a wire hook, suspended from the ground. We made the shape of the "cocoon" out of wire, leaving a circular entrance along one of the sides. -After completing the shape of the egg, we covered the outside in strips of cloth and created a small flap as the door, which can be folded up and over a hook to keep the entrance open. We also painted the wooden stand blue to match the stripes of the fabric and created little pillows and a blanket to go inside the cocoon and make it almost like a little nest. We did have some trouble with the hook and wooden block supporting the weight of the "egg" after we added all of the pillows, but we fixed that problem by hot-gluing the end section of the wire to the wood block. This allowed the wire to be more supportive of the egg. Overall, I am very pleased with how this exercise turned out. We followed an idea and completed it in a relatively short amount of time, overcoming challenges and learning how to successfully design something.
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