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tension & suspension floating steel chair introduction to construction, spring ’12 professor dana buntrock steel angles
bracing pattern
Group project with Christina Flores, Naomi Vollmers, and Bree Wattonville. The project seeks to create an object that showcases steel’s material and structural qualities. Steel “wings” in truss formation counteract the tension of the wire, “elevating” the seat from heavy and grounded to light and airy. As a group member, I led the iterative design effort to select the appropriate steel profiles, bracing pattern, wing formation, and material of the seat. Steel are used for the four anchoring vertical parts because they have two sides, to which the wings and wire are bolted. The steel’s lightness in profile is in contrast to its immense strength.
wing formation
steel meets wood