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OpenFurniture Future City Lab Exhibition Berlin
OPEN CALL - Help to crowd source a stool design Join the OpenSimSim team to help design a chair /stool for the upcoming Future City Lab exhibition at the renowned AEDES gallery in Berlin in May 2012. Future City Lab, an open source urban initiative, will host an exhibition in Berlin this coming May. The work represents a worldwide collaboration of leading engineers, universities, and scientists in order to launch an urban vision for a sustainable future. This exhibit will be a further catalyst to the open-source nature of Future City Lab’s process of generating ideas for the sustainable city, but will be in need of furniture to help facilitate conversation. OpenSimSim is having an open-call for all designers to create an open-source chair/stool series for the future exhibit. Eternit Germany will help sponsor the exhibit by providing fibre concrete sheets in 8mm and 12mm thicknesses, but the chair design should be adaptable to other types of sheet material for future use as well. The first phase of the design will end 4 weeks before the opening of the exhibit and we will start to build prototypes of either one or several of the proposed designs. During the six weeks of the exhibition the designs will be tested on their durability and performance. The knowledge and feedback collected will become the starting point for the next prototype phase. If you want to join our team of worldwide young designers and engineers please let us know at be@opensimsim.net or submit your ideas and sketches to us either on our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/opensimsim, or our blog: http://opensimsim.tumblr.com/"httpHYPERLINK "http://opensimsim.tumblr.com. OpenSimSim will post the progress of their current designs every Wednesday and have open-call conversations on Saturdays at 12pm EST (time is subject to change) Please be aware that the final design will be released under creative commons license and can be adopted and manufactured non-commercially by anyone in the world. Requirements: - A stool / chair for people to be used during the exhibition for round table discussions and workshops - Easy to manufacture out of a sheet material (in this case Eternit fibre concrete) - Light (material saving), durable and easy to assemble - Use worldwide available materials for connections such as cable binders or similar connectors - The design will be water-jetted in order to cut the templates OpenSimSim is collaborating on this project with FutureCityLab, Aedes Gallery, Eternit Germany and Architecuul. Join us and be part of a global collaborative network.
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Stacked Chair
2,5 sqm
Using a 1.00x1.25 fiberconcrete sheet, the idea is waterjet whatever shape we want and assemble it with drilled pieces of fiberconcrete in between the pieces, then glue them and hold them tight with threaded rod through all the pieces. At the end of each rod we can use nuts to hold them tight.
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Tumblr Stool
1,5 sqm
Designed to be used in multiple orientations, the tumblr stool uses the concrete board’s material characteristics as the impetus for its structural design. The stool can be used independently or tumbled and slid next to adjacent stools to create a larger, more group oriented, bench. This stool design utilizes interlocking pieces that require only the use of glue at particular locking points. The stool can be used in multiple orientations as well as being stacked to increase its use as a display unit for both digital and analog exhibits.
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Folding Stool
0,8 sqm
Following OpenSimSim’s discussion with Marcel Bilow, the Folding Chair utilizes the 3F technology and weaving techniques. Four concrete panels can be cut from 1 sqm of material and have the rubber strips blind riveted. A series of holes will be water-jetted and strung together with nylon cord.