Box Seat
Box seat was a short project in second year to create a seat out of a shingle sheet of ply that could store a book. The concept was to express the duality of positions, on one hand we have every day items that we put in open book shelves for everyone to see, on the other, we have smaller more personal and treasured possessions.The design enabled less important items like books and magazines to be displayed between the legs of the seat while more important elements where stored in a secret compartment under the seat hidden by the legs. The seat could be pulled apart and packed up for moving and the valuable items could stay in their compartment without being disturbed. The secret compartment helped lock the legs together and was opened by pulling one side off the box held together with recessed magnets.
Models
I was lucky enough to spent the majority of my second year at work making professional models with the office laser cutter. I enjoy the process because it forces you to re think the fundamental elements of a project and rationalise them into a few pieces of card or timber. I’ve completed around 15 professional models and 10 for university projects. Typically I’ve used plywood, boxboard, Perspex, MDF, plastic and acrylic, Im looking forward to use my masters degree experiment with a variety of mediums and materials, specifically complex CNC routing and detailed metalwork.
Card
Lasercut
Perspex
Hybrid
CNC Router
