Concept ideas

I choose to design my piece of furniture for the 100% DESIGN TOKYO 2009 because its an exhibition wherby a lot of contemporary designs (national and international) are showcased. This opportunity makes it the perfect place to design my chair that would be based on complex folds and engineering the X-board to its best effiency level in terms of ammount of material usage, strength (tensile and compressive), and ergonomics all together in a small package that could be easily assembled/ disassembled for the period of the show.

Above are few sketches of initial concept ideas and designs presented at previous 100% Design exhibitions.

Xanita board folding techniques

Xanita board experimentation of folding techiques and methods:
- Lap fold
- Miter fold
- Curved fold
- Self locking system (concealed)

Esquisse 3 - 3D translation

My product from nature is a stem along which lies a bunch of seeds arranged in an helical order. The stem being the center axis, and the seeds goes around it together with the height.

From this particular sequence and repetition,
i made these variations of helical paper folds that are constrained to a similar central axis.






The helical design (below) is another variation of the first attempt, and is much more related to the Human gene, DNA strands.

Esquisse 2 - Locking System

Plain 4mm corrugated cardboard, about 200mm x 320mm

designed, cut and scored for folding.

Folded structure 100mm high, that translates the load laterally from the mini bridges to the columns which were further reinforced by inner folds.

The idea of the structure and shape came from the "Arch of Triumph" monument, Paris, France

An array of 3 Arches that would be able to carry additional load.

Esquisse 1 - Sphere

Modular interlocking technique using 12 identical units assembled together to make this amazingly strong and robust stellated octahedron which is not a perfect sphere but provides the overall symmetery. A more spherical form could be achieved by using more and smaller modules.

Esquisse 1 - 5 sided Pyramid

Simple one piece folded development

Esquisse 1 - Box

Simple One piece box development