Reference Material: The Chair

Click here to download Chapter 1 from Galen Cranz's "The Chair."

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"Why do we have chairs, where do they come from, and why do we continue to sit on them?"

Reference Material: Key Anthropometric Chair Measurements

Reference Material: Structural Engineering Presentations

Click here to download my first structural engineering presentation, "Forces, Failures and Strategies for Resistance."

Click here to download my second structural engineering presentation, "Lateral Load Resistance."

Click here to download excerpts from 1000 Chairs by Charlotte and Peter Fiell.

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Fairmont Royal York

Reference Material: Orthographic and Paraline Drawing Conventions Presentation

Click here to download my presentation on orthographic and paraline drawing conventions as a PDF.

davegrgrc : cyborg.chair

The skeleton-structure of the chair is being consumed by the entanglement of wires and cables. This creation is my social commentary on the incomprehensible speed at which human technology is advancing.

Who is really in control?

Hayuki Morimoto - Broken Chair

Broken Chair! Joseph Luong

Broken Chair: MinJi Kim

Before

Process
Final

Broken Chair: Caranina Bertone

I found my chair in someone's garbage on garbage day

The chair was very stable
except for the back rest which was totally gone
and the pieces extending from the seat on all sides

were very wobbly and falling out of their places

I originally wanted to extend out the back pieces
because they had become freed from their original back rest
but it would have been difficult to make those stable for leaning back

I then thought to get rid of the back pieces altogether
and since I intended to use the chair
as a clothes rest anyways
I decided to make a clothes rack instead
for clothes which would usually be kept on my bed

In the process...

I decided to cover the vertical pieces

with magazine collage
because I was unhappy with the colour of the wood I added
and it will look more personal and unique

In use...