COURSE: ARCH 422 (SITUATIONS) WINTER 2021
PROFESSOR: Adam Fure
PROFESSOR: Adam Fure
PROGRAMS/ TOOLS USED: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign
PROJECT SUMMARY:
For this project, my teammates (John Li and Yikai Su) and I chose to highlight moments of the history of furniture that includes the “high end”, knock offs, consumerism, and the weird phases in a junkyard gallery/ museum/ flea market/ meet swap like space. For this project we were challenged to create a drawing purely out of ready-made 3D objects we found on websites such as Turbosquid.
In regards to the division of labor, we each crafted our own shelf sets and piles of “garbage” surrounding these shelves. I worked on the left third of drawing, Yikai on the center third, and John on the right third of the drawing. I also contributed by arranging the characters, people, and animals to add the drawing by creating small stories. Each teammate took on a different approach to curating their shelves in accordance with the phases of history we focused on. John's collection took a clean Ikea vibe, while Yikai took on the vibe of an Ikea that couldn't afford enough employees to maintain sets and shelves, and I took on a custom curated mess.
DESIGN VARIABLES:
- CONTENTS: used and furniture
- ASSEMBLY SYSTEM: mess
- PLAN ORGANIZATION: scattered
For this project, my teammates (John Li and Yikai Su) and I chose to highlight moments of the history of furniture that includes the “high end”, knock offs, consumerism, and the weird phases in a junkyard gallery/ museum/ flea market/ meet swap like space. For this project we were challenged to create a drawing purely out of ready-made 3D objects we found on websites such as Turbosquid.
In regards to the division of labor, we each crafted our own shelf sets and piles of “garbage” surrounding these shelves. I worked on the left third of drawing, Yikai on the center third, and John on the right third of the drawing. I also contributed by arranging the characters, people, and animals to add the drawing by creating small stories. Each teammate took on a different approach to curating their shelves in accordance with the phases of history we focused on. John's collection took a clean Ikea vibe, while Yikai took on the vibe of an Ikea that couldn't afford enough employees to maintain sets and shelves, and I took on a custom curated mess.
DESIGN VARIABLES:
- CONTENTS: used and furniture
- ASSEMBLY SYSTEM: mess
- PLAN ORGANIZATION: scattered
INFLATABLE FURNITURE SET
As a child of the 90s inflatable furniture holds a very dear place in my heart, so it only felt natural that look into the history of this furniture fad. The first pieces of inflatable furniture were invented in the 40s by engineer Walter Bird. It seems that the inflatable furniture fad pops back into view every few decades from the 40s to 60s during the Space Age when they were made more available to the mass market, in the late 90s early 2000s during the Y2K phase, and once again more recently in the 2020s. (Reference: Architectural Digest article)
As a child of the 90s inflatable furniture holds a very dear place in my heart, so it only felt natural that look into the history of this furniture fad. The first pieces of inflatable furniture were invented in the 40s by engineer Walter Bird. It seems that the inflatable furniture fad pops back into view every few decades from the 40s to 60s during the Space Age when they were made more available to the mass market, in the late 90s early 2000s during the Y2K phase, and once again more recently in the 2020s. (Reference: Architectural Digest article)
THE WATER BED
The modern day waterbed was invented in 1968 by then San Francisco State University design student Charlie Hall for his master's thesis project. He had begun with a mission to create the most comfortable chair experimenting with materials such as vinyl and fillers ranging from cornstarch to jello and ended with the unusual waterbed. (Reference: Apartment therapy article)
The modern day waterbed was invented in 1968 by then San Francisco State University design student Charlie Hall for his master's thesis project. He had begun with a mission to create the most comfortable chair experimenting with materials such as vinyl and fillers ranging from cornstarch to jello and ended with the unusual waterbed. (Reference: Apartment therapy article)