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Build a 1:5 scale model of a famous chair & Design and build an original companion birdhouse.
5 weeks, Fall 2025
Solo: research, model making, orthographic drawings, original design
Laser cutting, bent veneer lamination, woodworking, metal sawing.
Design Principles I, RISD
Design Principles I, RISD
Model: laser cut and stained birch plywood, leather over wood sanded to taper, pinheads, and metallic tape.
Project for Design Principles I studio, assigned to create a 1:5 scale model of a famous chair: chosen Eileen Gray's Transat Chair (1922). Designed specifically for Grey's vacation villa E-1027, the chair has a clear focus on comfort, as it signifies the duality of sleek engineering and relaxation. It played a big role in the cultural shift post World War I from the maximal ornamental styles, to minimalistic, sustainable asethetics. It is still reproduced, with its structures in natural beech wood, lacquered colors, or chrome tubular steel; offered in a wider variety of colorways. Inspired by the principal forms of the Transat Chair. The Transat Birdhouse is my personal design as a companion piece, designed specifically for the Eurasian Wren species that inhabits the location of E-1027 villa - the house adapts to the Wren's size and necesities, as well as preferences such as sleeping in corners.
Orthographic Drawings
Original Transat Chair by Eileen Gray
Model by me
Transat Birdhouse
companion piece
Form study
Birch plywood, bent veneer laminations, aluminum rod, bolted steel nuts.
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