ARC: GRAVITY

BRIEF:

Situated in a valley of sorts, flanked by modern and heritage buildings, The Yard called out as a perfect environment for a furniture piece. The intervention would need to marry these design styles while also adapting the phrase “inside / outside” however it suited the design.

Tools

- Physical sketching ideating and designing

- Modelmaking and physical prototyping
- Laser cutting
- 3d printing

- SolidWorks & Keyshot
- Iterating / designing
- Sightlines and perspective
- Hi-fidelity digital product
- Tech drawings

- Wood working and metalworking

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OUTCOME:

The final realised product resulted in a functioning furniture piece that exceeded expectations set out at the start of the project. The piece was structurally sound, proving my design of the inner frame successful, and the design spoke to the brief requirement in a way that produced a beautiful outcome.

LEARNED SKILLS:

- CAD / Visualisation
- Weldments
- Tech drawings specced for metalworking and manufacture
- Using Keyshot to verify sightlines

- Large group work (6 people)
- Time management and allocations of tasks
- Refinement of project and design
- Relying and trusting skills and talents of group members

- Wood working and metal working
- Designing with manufacturing tolerances in mind