Professor: Volkan Alkanoglu
Course: Hybrid Formations – Interdisciplinary Design
Team Members: Amira Abdel-Rahman and Gabriel Muñoz Moreno
The challenge of the seminar is to design and fabricate a structure that is light, paper-thin but still maintains its structural integrity. The objective was to get inspired by techniques of the aviation and automobile industry to the fabrication of these prototypes. Optimizing the structural performance of the chair was the driving force behind the design. A parametric model of the chair was developed and tested under different load case scenarios and then the design was optimized for ease and automation of fabrication.
Manufactured out of extremely lightweight, aluminum panels, the Y-chair is CNC/water-jet cut and the the robotic arm was used to form the aluminum sheets. A custom end tool for the robot was fabricated using english wheel rollers to form the sheets using custom CNC milled wood forms.
Harvard GSD | Fall 2017 | Group of 2
