Spiritual Lounge

Side Table Collections

In this funiture and space design collections, I first began with developing the furniture prototype. Specifically, in the first phase of this project, I focus on investigating the differnece between various material peoperties. I ended up utilizing wood to represent the heaviness and wood to represent the lightness. Developing base on the idea, I came up with the first version of the prototype by embedding the light wood frame in the slut of the concrete shield to hold up the entire concrete case. In addition, I also intended to use the design of solidness verses voidness to demonstrate the dramatic constrast between the concrete solideness and the empty voideness.

The second phase of the prototype is the revised version of the first edition. In this advanced prototype, I add on another funtion for the solidness and voidness constrast. Instead of merely being a hole, the box itself can actually functioning as the shelf that could hold items such as books or cup of coffee. Plus, in order to achieve the similar kind of haviness effects of concrete. Instead of the solid concrete shield, I divide the entire shield into different layer of concrete rings to pursuing the same vibe. The ring design also further facilitate the playfulness of light and shadow.

The project itself referencing a lot from the concrete master Luis Khan ,the master of light and shadow, Tadao Ando and the project of Rudolph Schindler. Therefore, In the third phase of the project, I integrate both my prototype and the architecutral project that I reference from to design a space that I imagine the prototype to be fit in. The space is called the spiritual lounge, and the room itself took on the exisiting characters of the prototype furniture including the material properties, the light and heaviness comparison, the gemetry compositions and the interaction of different primitive shapes.