Final Report
Demi Chang (dc834) Xiaohang Yan (xy296)
Process: Before making the stool, we finally decided to use oak wood instead of birch to make the stool because oak has better elasticity. Instead of using one big piece of oak to bend and cut it into four pieces, we decided to make four legs separately (since we need to fit the wood pieces into the form by hands). We did not laminate two pieces of solid wood together since that would require a level of precise cuting of the layers we can’t achive (otherwise there will be gaps around where the lamination happens).
We laminated nine pieces of white wood boards to make a wood block and cut the shape of the legs out of it for the form.
Building Technology Aalto’s Stool - in collaboration with XiaoHang Yan 16
The oak wood pieces were soaked in water for around two hours. Excessive amount of glue was applied in-between the wood pieces. Wood pieces were inserted in to the connected pieces and put into the form. Each time two legs were clamped in the mode and dried for 24 hours. For the last two legs, we used one of the legs that we previously made as a reference in the mode for better accuracy.