FD4008 Furniture for outdoor spaces: Residential Complexes Anand Belhe Kaulav Bhagat

FD4008

Furniture for outdoor spaces: Residential Complexes

Program

Furniture Design

Unit Assistant Arkid Bhandari

Students

Aashna Shah Ahana Sen Ahmed Faraz Khan Aishwarya Murari Ankita Jain Hetul Parmar Manasa Mahalakshmi Nilanshi Panchal Shachi More Srishti Bansal Anand Belhe Kaulav Bhagat

This studio covered the issues related to designing of outdoor furniture through the problem solving method. The studio attempted to infuse material and manufacturing centered approach to design. Public spaces require very specific type of furniture, which caters to the various needs of larger user groups. It also provides opportunities for the user to interact at various degrees and level in social environment. Furniture in public or outdoor spaces enhances community activities and becomes support infrastructure to perform daily task. Such furniture provides comfort to the users in open and semi-open spaces, covered and semi-covered spaces or public and semi-public spaces.

The furniture defines the nature of outdoor spaces through its organization, placement and location, and the characteristics of furniture affect the behavior of the users or observers. These characteristics are manifested through material usage, manufacturing processes, structural principles, form attributes, finishes etc. In this studio ,students focused on how to think of creative ideas which align materials and processes to create visually and technically innovative solutions.

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Fig 1 Shachi More A structure of the chair is achieved by hyperbolic paraboloid geometry Fig 2 Ahmed Faraz Khan The furniture occupies minimal surface area of contact on the ground resulting in a visually light aesthetics Fig 3 Ahmed Faraz Khan The furniture when arranged allows different postures and a centre around which conversation takes place Fig 4 Ahana Sen The modules would allow seating for at least two people in a

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single unit and more when put together in different arrangements

Fig 5 Manasa Mahalakshmi

Multipurpose furniture to be mainly used by adolescents for group activities Fig 6 Manasa Mahalakshmi Linear arrangement consisting of two modules for paved footpath Fig 7 Manasa Mahalakshmi Cluster arrangement with three modules Fig 8 Bansal Srishti Anupam The tangram furniture from the top when

arranged together

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