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Assignment Details (Group Project): For this building systems and technology course, the class was given an 8ftx4ftx8ft construction onto which 4 separate groups had to make meaningful interventions. With such mashing of various ideas, the class began dubbing it the “Franken-Hut.” These interventions were to be designed on Rhino collectively and built for our final presentation.

Project Narrative and Organization: Our group was interested by the idea of blending architecture and furniture, devising this wall-integrated chair. In tandem with a separate group’s idea for a garage door-like element, we decided to further integrate the chair by making it fully liftable with the door. This presented a unique load capacity constraint that we successfully worked around by limiting material with glue-lam construction.

My contributions were modeling the chair to the correction dimensions in Rhino, determining how we could construct the chair as a glue-lam structure, working with my team to develop construction packages, and leading the team’s woodworking efforts.