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FD4001 Small Great Things
FD4001
Small Great Things
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Program
Furniture Design
Unit Assistant
Brinda Patel
Faculty of Design FD4001 Spring 2021
Students
Aditi Banka Anmol Pareek Deepshikha Gupta Meet Thakrar Mohammad Arif Ahmed Nivedhitha R Rashmil Rajagopalan Rajitha Sikindar Ali Darga Rebecca Reubens
The homes of the present and future are outlined as becoming increasingly smaller and this calls for a new breed of multitasking furniture. This furniture has new functions, including supporting new technology and behaviours related to it, new connotations of ‘family’, and a new understanding of “workplace” which seamlessly overlaps with a “living space”. This studio looked at ways to study and design the furniture for contemporary interior spaces after studying precedents, user-behaviour and the specific spaces as each student focused on an opportunity area for an innovative design solution through a rigorous design process. The process included benchmarking an iconic furniture piece which best addressed the issue, and re-articulating it keeping the contemporary context in mind. In the first part of the studio, the students studied a created model of their iconic furniture pieces. In the second half, the focus was on the design process and on 3D modeling to create their final design. Material exploration, structural adequacy of the proposed design, aesthetics, joinery, detailing and context were the scaffolding which underpinned final iterations by the students.
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Design PG Level-4 Fig 1 Batch 3D renders of furniture designed by students. Fig 2 Arif. M Activity mapping of family members in a residential space. Fig 3 Arif. M, Meet. T Study of each other’s anthropometric dimensions. Fig 4 Aditi. B Technical drawing of iconic furniture and of the kit of parts for creating a scale model. Fig 5 Batch Students working on 1:5 scale models in real materials. Fig 6 Batch 1:5 scale models of iconic furniture pieces. Fig 7 Rashmil. R Technical drawing of final design iteration, with images of process models in 1:5 scale.
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