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students were paired in groups of 4 or 5 and assigned to design a chair appropriate for a 5-10 year-old child, made from no more than one sheet of 48” x 80” corrugated cardboard, thus...
APERCHAIR
The final pentagon design is held together
by an internal slotting mechanism and
strengthened by interlocking folds
in the cardboard.
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No adhesives or fasterners were used.
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For the 'critiques,' each chair had to withstand
a gaggle of children for they assess our work.
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All the students gather around a Skype
session in another room to observe the guest critic's interactions with our chairs.
After using and playing with the chairs, the children critiqued and discussed their findings.
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Our design was one of the few chosen by a child guest critic to take home, enjoy and provide further testing...
group's inspiration boards and inital sketches
sketch models and first prototype
It comes as a sheet therefor it is flat packable, making is very effective to ship.
Once put together it can always be easily broken down and re-assembled.
flat patern on single cardboard sheet
group members ~ Daniel Cho l Brianna Duffy l Alexander Mattaway l Elizabeth Zhang
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