Throughout my Fourth Year Fall 2021 semester, my professor, Jill Leckner, encouraged us to explore product design through the use of digital design and fabrication tools alongside traditional woodworking tools to design and build furniture. The design process will tie together research, sketching, design development, technical drawings, material studies, three-dimensional modeling and prototyping as a means of exploration and innovation. I utilized a CNC machine to cut my projects with. In this semester, I chose to design two objects. This project is a wooden two legged chair made from half inch maple plywood. While under any normal circumstances, a two wooden two legged chair is anything but normal. My design does not incorporate any metal bracing or brackets, just wood joints. By having the two legs connect at the bottom by creating a square base, the weight the structure can hold is evenly distributed between all parts of the chair. In order to create a stronger design, I chose to thicken the legs and base by a two and a half inch width and double the frame below the seat. Again, this helps to maximize the weight evenly distributed throughout the chair.
