Wrapping up the chair project?

worked on a totally new chair because it had to relate to the person i wrote my essay about: my childhood best friend.

so basically the chair in form and structure had to represent and "contain" elements caracterizing the basic characteristics of our relationship (close, fun, etc)

i mentioned that she was really close to me, and that whether or not she was there, she always had my back, we were always friends, so my chair is composed of 1 pieces but is still sitable on whether one of the pieces is gone or not.
I received feedback about it during a critique in class today.


we went to the common workshop for an introduction tour and apparently we have to take a test before using the tools inside for teh next project, which apparently concerns making a different seat out of wood, but i still don't really understand what it's about...

1st exercise: cardboard chair : done! but still more to come...

we just finished our 1st cardboard chair and Linda & Tom's classes got together in Tom's class, everyone laid their chair on the floor and the critiques started...
I think it was very interesting, we questioned the main most important and basic aspects of a good functional chair...things i never even thought about concerning chairs...we discussed what makes a good chair? a pretty chair? a functional chair? and a lot of details were mentioned...

people choose chairs that look sturdy, that look like they can handle being sat on (that is sit-able), and it should look like a chair too ( or something that is a seat).
aethetics isn't important at all as long as everything else works great.



So I really liked that little critique/discussion about chairs and their properties.. it was really interesting.. i learned a lot of useful new information that should be helpful with this project...

otherwise we have an essay to do for tuesday about duality...and another essay due on the 29th + we have to build a prototype of a chair for the 29th, using any amount of cardboard that we want, but of course it should be well functional..

AND we have to have our final ready by the 31st of March...

Not starting the new project yet..

So I thought we'd be starting the next chair project but actually Thursday's class was still about the treehouse, and specifically the final posters we had to make.. so we all spent that time refining our posters on our laptops, and it took me so many different trials to come up with the last good one!!!

it's not funny when you just finished 5 differnet models of posters and Adobe crashes very unexpectedly just like that!!

and doing it over again... so much hard work

I'm glad that's over anyway.. we already had a sit-able chair to make out of a 4x4 piece of cardboard for next Tuesday! so that's what I was worried about next..

Last hours spent on The treehouse project..

We put our posters up to get critiques and to know which one to keep and improve to turn on on Monday. We had to have our process notebooks ready by Thursday.

otherwise we spent class time wandering around checking other classrooms' posters to "get inspired" and to see how others represented their concepts, their treehouse, their ideas...

we were just finishing up on Tuesday...


Wonder what this next project is gonna be like...

Now we have posters to do?

So some of the people in class who had done their posters projected them to get feedback from class and from the teacher.. so we did that for a while.. tehn each of us worked on what we had left to do.. in my case i had to start designing my poster and do 3 versions of it and print one for next time .. and have my process notebook ready!

Treehouse browsing in & out of class...

So today we all had our models done (well, almost everybody), and Linda came to every student to talk to us about our treehouse design, question it, see if it's good or needs something or is just fine teh way it is..

otherwise we went to other classes and checked out their treehouses models, and some were pretty cool, original, but sometimes too unbalanced or high to be a real treehouse...

some of the teachers passed around too

and we just spent the rest of class doing whatever left each of us had to do, whether it was work on our model more, sketch more, analyse it more or anything else...


We need to finish up this project for next week...