Final Outcome

After the final feedback of lowering the height of the backrest component the chair's form improved evoking the petite emotions originally planned in my prefabricated design.

After picking up my chair I had to work at ye old Maccaz and so I took it for a test drive. :D

 

Thanks for viewing my folio! Cheers!

Making the Chair!

 To bend the mesh around the frame, I used a mallet and clamp so that 

the mesh would hug and be easy to weld through

 This was an evaluation before welding the pieces together. The back leg arches up as the seat frame and is angled so that the user sinks into the chair comfortably.

 This is the piece after it was welded together

 The parts conveyed in the drawings, strewn across the floor, ready to be welded.

 The final product pieced together

 Minor clean-up details

 The biggest contributor to the form of my final design is the tube bending tool. The Radi seen in the back legs, arm rest and back seat are the minimal yield that the tool can create which had great impact on my design. It has deviated from a straight angled concept, to a wavy, curved form taking away from the aggressive edge that was in my originial concept.

CAD modelling

I did a CAD study as drawings to communicate my designs to the workshop crew.

Mesh Research

This was a comprehensive study of the type of mesh that would deem most comfortable. 

 Observation of how the chain-link style mesh combines onto the frame

 

My chosen size of mesh. I decided to choose this steel grid mesh as it compliments the symmetry of the human body rather than having a wider grid that digs into the human buttocks making it springy, but not comfy.

 These were the same designed mesh but at larger intervals. The smaller the better as more pressure is spread onto more grid lines.

 

Vermin Meshes

Gutter designed Mesh. Too solid no elastic property.

Concept Refinement

Concept Evaluation

Here,  I evaluated my chosen design plotting out desired outcomes moving into concept refinement

1:1 Scale Exploration

Here we explored our intended design against the measurements of a real life chair.

 side view

 Left: Desired Chair         Right: Reference Chair

 Front view measurements

This study will give me a better idea in size what I will be working with and will help me gauge the size constraints my proto type is to work within

Form Exploration Model, Welding Training

 I undertook welding training in order to prepare me for my final prototype with shocking results.

 I am a shit welder!

Though the model was not to scale I learned how to bend rod and use the Mig Welder... not properly though