first-Year University Project
Duration: 10 Weeks
Duration: 10 Weeks
Brief
Design and build a full-sized wooden chair for your own daily use. Work with a limited wood allocation, no glue, and only basic tools. The chair must flat-pack and rely on mechanical fixings.
Description
Measure for Measure’s sake questions what “good design” really means and who it’s made for.
Standard chairs don’t suit my body, so I designed one that does: a low, three-legged seat that lets me stretch and sit how I actually want to.
Rooted in Indian floor seating and Japanese minimalism, the project pushes back on Western design norms, asking why comfort is so often defined by one way of sitting.
This project became a way to unlearn inherited norms, rethink what counts as “good design,” and make space for more bodies, more cultures, and more comfort in the process.
Research
Accommodates sitting cross-legged or with one foot on the seat for increased comfort.
Backrest designed to encourage or enforce straight, healthy posture by supporting proper spinal alignment. Seamlessly integrates with a workstation setup, enabling comfortable use of a laptop, iPad, and for drawing. While being low to the ground to accommodate physical model making. Features a fun and playful design, experimenting with the chair's proportions to create an engaging and visually interesting appearance.
Process