PET 'HOME' CHALLENGE

Habitat ’11 Modern Cat House by Sarah Chou

This challenge is deliberately broad offering a variety of potential problems to solve. Although you have been provided with a general aim (design and build a pet home) it is up to you to identify a focused problem. 

The other important thing to keep in mind as you start to sketching and prototyping is that you're in effect designing Ready-to-assemble furniture (RTA), also known as knock-down furniture (KD) or flat pack furniture. This a unique form of furniture that requires customer assembly and will therefore require assembly instructions so your client can build the item correctly.

The rubric can be found in our shared Google Drive folder. I've also copied an example of a moodboard.

CHAIR FINALISATION

When you are ready to finalise your Sketch Chair design you'll need to download the instructions from our shared Google Drive folder. Points to note:

1. These instructions are for Adobe Illustrator,  I haven't had time to produce something something similar for Inkscape.
2. Make sure you scale your Sketchchair elements on the new page and try to use as much of the page as possible.
3. The plywood sheet will be about 4.8 mm - 5mm thick. So we're using the upper figure (5mm) to resize our gaps.

INKSCAPE OR ILLUSTRATOR

You will need to down and install either Inkscape of a trial version of Adobe Illustrator.

VALOVI CHAIR

OpenDesk is an initiative to produce furniture on the principles of free and open source software. Designs are released under Creative Commons licenses.You can use it to download, make and buy furniture. The chair pictured above is known as the Valoví Chair designed by Brazilian architect Denis Fuzii. Each chair is assembled from 19 interlocking pieces. Two Valoví chairs can be milled from a single 1220mm x 2440mm sheet of 15mm plywood.

You need to make four drawings one of which should be the Zip tie lounge.

JAPANESE JOINERY

OBJECT VISUALISATION PROBLEM 2

OBJECT VISUALISATION PROBLEM