Final Prototype model

1:1 scale X-board model, using laser cutting machine at school's workshop.

Design Development / Branding

Design Development / 1:1 scale mock-up

Test with the full scale mock-up model made of 4 layers cardboard. The supproting problem in the bottome part came out and need some refinement for it.

Design Development / final design

Concept Development / scaled model 02

Model #02 is consist of two parts as well as #01. It's also 1:10 scaled size model with box board (1mm thickness). The key point of this model is using human weight to be firm of seat to bottom part. It looks quite easy to assemble and disassemble. The bottom part is still needed to be modified the shape and size.

Concept Development / scaled model 01

Model #01(1:10 scaled) is made of two part with 3 pieces of board. Most of surfaces in top part is double layered and cross slot-in is used as joining method between top and bottom parts.

Still need to develop some section such as arm part, bottom rear part and specific size of whole parts.

Concept Development / folding experiment 03

Concept Development / folding experiment 02

one sheet folding to a chair, recognise that it is hard to be a strong and join the each surfaces within the one sheet size of X-board.

Concept Development / folding experiment 01

divided 2 parts, try to generate the form of top part with the folding normal paper.

Concept Development / sketches before folding 02

Concept Development / sketches before folding 01

After stage two(3 concepts), I decided to design a chair with the folding one or two pieces of X-board. According to the size of one sheet (1200 X 1830mm), it is hard to use only one sheet to fold to be a chair, therfore I've been playing with normal paper to fold and become a part of whole chair. These are some of sketches, before the folding process.

Concept 04 / transform chair

Concept 03 / modular chair

Concept 02 / lounge chair + table

Concept 01 / folding chair

Concept Ideation 04

Concept 04 is also transforming furniture, it could be used as chair and table. Basically used with cross joining system, it could provide high strength. Also, could be used as some combination of them.

Concept Ideation 03

Concept 03 is a modular system chair or bench. One module will provide both sides seat and it will be very useful at the narrow hallway. Middle panel will be used as advertising space. It could be modified with any number of modules.

Concept Ideation 02

Concept 02 is a convertable version of lounge chair. It could be used as lounge chair and desk. It could be very useful combination inside display booths.

Concept Ideation 01

Concept 01 is about the folding chair. based on one flat sheet and supporting sheet. It will give very good portability with light weight, easy to assemble, but wondering how much weight can be supported.

Event Consideration

After event research stage, I decided to design the chair in a public space (entrance space or hallway) for the visitor's resting.

Design consideration
> light weight and portability
> must hold up to 150kg
> recyclability, using locking system
> saving space
> branding
> cost effective to produce

Event Analysis

Event Research (SaloneSatellite)

Event Research (iSaloni)

Esquisse four - deconstruction and reverse engineering

Esquisse three - 3D translation

Esquisse two - 'locking system'

Esquisse one - Understanding form + geometry

Sketches from NGV visit

Shiro Kuramata & Campana Brothers

Shiro Kuramata
Furniture + Interior Designer (1934-1991)

Kuramata’s designs reflect the confidence and creativity of postwar Japan, retaining a strong identity based on traditional Japanese aesthetics while breaking new ground through the use of innovative materials. He combined the Japanese concept of the unity of the arts with his fascination with contemporary western culture. Kuramata reassessed the relationship between form and function, imposing his own vision of the surreal and of minimalist ideals on everyday objects.






















Fernando + Humberto Campana
Furniture Designer (1967- + 1953- )

Drawing inspiration from Brazilian street life and carnival culture, the brothers combine found objects – such as scraps of wood and fabric off-cuts – with advanced technologies to create a vibrant, energetic and definitively Brazilian approach to design. Taking their cue from everyday scenarios and using unexpected combinations of found materials such as rubber hose, tissue paper, string or furry toys, Fernando and Humberto transform modest materials into objects that instilled with the spirit of contemporary Brazil that they describe as “zest for life”.

Charles + Ray Eames & Verner Panton

Charles + Ray Eames
Product Designers (1907–1978 + 1912-1988)

Early in their careers together, Charles and Ray identified the need for affordable, yet high-quality furniture for the average consumer. For 40 years the Eames experimented with ways to meet this challenge, designing flexibility into their compact storage units and collapsible sofas for the home; seating for stadiums, airports, and schools; and chairs for virtually anywhere.

Like in the earlier moulded plywood work, the Eames pioneered innovative technologies, such as the fiberglass, plastic resin chairs and the wire mesh chairs designed for Herman Miller.






















Verner Panton
Architect + Furniture Designer (1926-1998)

Verner Panton introduced a series of modern chairs, environments and lighting with personalities. With a remarkable faith in the unlimited possibilities of traditional forms, he worked successfully to create a new set of theories about how a chair should look and how it should seat someone as well as how vibrant colours could find their way into corporate and residential environments.

He was first to create inflatable furniture, pioneered with the much acclaimed single moulded plastic chair and refused to accept gravity by creating the Flying Chair.

Eileen Gray & Hans J Weger

Eileen Gray
Architect + Furniture Designer (1878 – 1976)

Eileen Gray is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early 20th century and the most influential woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco.

She was to “stand alone” throughout her career first as a lacquer artist, then a furniture designer and finally as an architect. At a time when other leading designers were almost all male and mostly members of one movement or another, but she remained stalwartly independent.

Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working, and Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by International Style designers.






















Hans J Wegner
Architect + Furniture Designer (1914 – 2007)

With his love of natural materials and his deep understanding of the need for furniture to be functional as well as beautiful, Hans J Wegner made mid-century Danish design popular on an international scale.

The real beauty of Wegner’s genius must be seen in context with his collaboration with master cabinetmaker Johannes Hansen.

Wegner works with many different materials, old and modern. Yet, as no one else he understands the nature of wood and the possibilities and limitations which this family of materials represents.