Bumi Chair - Product Design Brochure - Lucas Akira Druet

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Even at rest the body is constantly moving.

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The Bumi Chair™ is a blank canvas for use, comfort, and perspective.

It is for the body that adapts.

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How does a piece of furniture become a part of the room? A chair can be a statement, can camouflage, can be mis-matched, contrasting, coveted, or forgotten.

Sitting-down, attention is brought back to the room. Comfort can be the mind freeing itself from the body.

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The Bumi Chair is a place of rest for both the body and the room. It invites the room to inhabit it. The objects it hosts become a snapshot of this moment in time.

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A lounge chair that lets you decide.

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The chair base extends past the seat bottom to be flush with the rim of the seat back. The additional surface to bumi chair gives further function with minimal strokes. A staging area to be inhabited by nik-naks, items of the week, yesterday morning’s coffee mug, and any other item that lets the room and the day inhabit the chair.

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Finished in black oxide and lightly sealed, the steel surface will begin revealing patters of use. The surface will be a living part of the room, telling stories in its aging, wearing, and scuffing.

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PO S ITION

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Sitting little more than a foot off the ground, the floor becomes an extension of the chair. This intimate relation to the base of the room creates further opportunities for sitting positions that contributes to the chair’s variable comfort.

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The upholstered rim of the seat back as been designed to give a subtle flex and relief when pressure is applied, adding to the experience of reaching over for your coffee mug.

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POLYURETHANE UPHOLSTERED CUSHION POLYURETHANE UPHOLSTERED CUSHION (PLYWOOD & STEEL REINFORCED) PLYWOOD BASE 1/2”

COLD ROLLED SHEET STEEL 0.12 (11ga)

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COLD ROLLED STEEL 0.75x0.75x0.049

CON S T RUCT I ON

The seat back and base are a continuous upholstered piece.

The open shape of the Bumi Chair acts like an open glove. A thin cushion tops the seat base, giving additional comfort.

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To contrast the soft and pliable top, a rigid steel frame makes up the structural platform. Thin sheet metal reaches up from the platform surface to cup the base of the chair upholstery, as if to persuade the blooming form.

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POLYURETHANE FOAM LAYERS (1/2” - 1/4” / medium - high density)

TWO LAMINATED LAYERS 1/8” BALTIC BIRCH PLYWOOD (With laser-cut fanned living hinge to achieve compound curve)

COLD ROLLED SHEET STEEL CURVE 11GA (Black Oxide finish - lightly sealed)

COLD ROLLED FLAT BAR STEEL 0.250x4.000

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COLD ROLLED STEEL TUBE 0.75x0.75x0.049

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M ODULARI T Y

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Simple alterations and additions to the bumi chair create potential for expansion. A mirrored chair can complete the open form into a low love-seat arrangement. A unit with the curved backing removed gives additional lounging opportunity.

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Combine the modular pieces as you please to grow further into a space and increase the social dynamic.

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love-seat arrangement

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love-seat arrangement

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lounge extension

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The Bumi Chair can be customized and catered to the tastes of the customer. The interchangeable seat cushion adds another layer of colour combinations

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Design by: Lucas Akira Druet

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University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture Class: Scaled Transactions Professor: Herbert Enns

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