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Guide: P.RAMA KRISHNA RAO / GAJANAN UPADHYAY / ANDREA NORONHA
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ASSIGNMENT
Design a Folding Furniture by looking at existing furniture’s or take a space where there is a need for a folding mechanism which can solve the problem.
CHOSEN PROBLEM
Folding Cradle for children to be used in small living spaces.
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BRIEF A Foldable Cradle for 3 months to 2 year old children to be used in small living spaces like flats, apartments. Taking in account the living conditions, is the furniture I intent to develop as a part of this course.
FORM
A Cradle which pays attention to the mobility, folding nature which helps in consoling space and other aspects are taken care of.
Bright, Attractive.
Various aspects like moving the furniture from one room to another or to outdoors, transporting via vehicles, easy storage with less amount of space etc. will be the advantages of folding Cradle.
STAGE 1
Aspects like balance, strength, agility, weight, size and how people can interact with it ergonomically in a conductive manner etc. are taker care of in this Folding Furniture Project.
KEYWORDS Cradle, Folding, Weight, Size, Tension, Balance, Children, Cloth, Sleeping, Cute, Breathing Space, Interaction, Transportation, Form, Colour, Furniture, Mobility, Storage, Strength, Agility, Ergonomics, Conductive, etc.
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Smooth, Curvy, Gentle
COLOUR
It was told to select any area or space and make a study on it finding out. Whats the area / space used for, What furniture is used or kept there, Does that space fulfils the requirements, Etc.The area I took was an apartment which was less than 1500sqft. In that area there were two bedrooms, two balconies, small kitchen, dining hall and sitting room combined .The problem I observed in that apartment was , a cradle kept in the sitting room which took lots of space and was heavy.
STAGE 2 About the Cradle A study on the existing cradles were done after the 1st exercise. The advantages and disadvantages of existing cradle was.
Advantages : The structure ,material and joineries of the existing Cradle made it stronger Steady and stable No possibility of damage could be happened to the cradle easily. Very comfortable for the baby.
Disadvantages : Takes lots of space Heavy and cant be moved easily Not going along with the interiors. Cant be dismantled. Cant be used only for a very short time.
pictures from an appartment in ‘ Pushkar 3 - paldi.
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STAGE 3 Brain Storming After a detailed study about advantages & disadvantage torming about the development of a new concept which came up with the needs and requirements .And I came to the conclusion as follows: After the brainstorming section an overall idea about the requirements needed for the new concept was clear. So, it was sure that a cradle is a furniture in which the folding mechanism can be applied/ involved to. Without changing the baisic logics of the old furniture (cradle) many new rough sketches and diagrams of folding cradle were made .
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The Brain Storming Conclusion
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Rough sketches towards a concept which can support all the needs that are figured out. 8
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The concepts and rough sketches shown here were rejected because of its less stability, complicated folding technique, sharp edges, complexity for users interaction and also wood as a material which was not suiting the structure and mechanisms.
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Trying again with a new concept from a simple structure 10
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The final concept sketches which is fulfilling the needs and also supporting the mechanism 14
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The orthographic drawings of the furniturewith every detailing, mechanism and other elements FOLDING FURNITURE | KIRANPRASANTH R
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1 : 1.5 scaled drawings, showing the mechanism drawings and the orthographic drawing of the furniture. 16
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1 : 1 orthographic drawing with measurements of the furniture in one sheet. 18
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TOWARDS THE MANUFACTURING
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Two mild-steel pipes of 8 feet long each after bending
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Stoppers and pivot mechanism details
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Cotton fabric which is very soft and little bit warm
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THE CRADLE
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Pivot of the cradle which also act as a holder for the cloth to hang
One more MS pipe attached to the radius of the form for adding weight ,strengthening and avoiding the tension
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• The cradle can take over more than 30 kg. • A provision for hanging toys is also provided in this cradle.
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After using the cradle it can be folded back and kept aside.
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Showing the user interaction and folding mechanism processes
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Thanks to* L. C. Ujawne J. A. Panchal Samir Bhutt Nanditha Mehrotra Kamalesh bhai All the staff’s of nid workshop Deepak bhai Govind Krishna Pranab . P. Kumar Ribin Raj Swathy Deepak Arun Prasath Arasu R Sumila Phijam Rahul Sahu Ajay Kanaujiya Malvi takhur Medini khare Akash more’ Nayan Shrimali Anjali Menon Aditi Agarwal Nayana Shenoy Komal Lakhanpal
Ashoka Prem Aanchal Bharanwal Sneha Ghosh Vivek . V . Ram Rajvi Mehta Himesh Sharma Magesh Kolleri Abhilash Jose Hari Krishnan Aniket Halder Kishen Patel
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*typefaces used Mongolian Baiti and Univers LT Std