Folding

Folding prototype

Precedent for this prototype: 

I really wanted to take the multiple folds somewhere into my designed as it would create a stronger type of chair and would allow greater flexibility if something were to break. 

The Japanese origami chairs also inspired me to think about structure and support a bit more to reflect my spatial verb shear. Now that I've sheared off the sides of a simple three dimensional space, I have to think about whats going to be inside and how its going to                                                                                                       support each other. 

This follows on from my precidents where I look at folding as an elements. However I have explored taking the side pieces now and creating it as its own piece. So in theory, its work now as a support piece rather than the whole make up of it.

Creating a house kind of shape reflects the "average" house where the beams are at the top, so shearing middle outwards instead of inwards created a different approach to shearing. As you can see from the picture above, I went with a connection of tabbing, from my previous experiences they didn't work because of the size of them. They would just fall out of place and not be very strong so I made them go out of the cardboard for added stability.

The folds of the inside piece created a cool kind of two way seating where it could act as a public facility, just a thought of functionality.

As seen from these photos I have taken the arrow shape from the previous prototype and done something different which it. Incorporating it into the structure of the product. I thought that because it was a sound idea with putting it through a gap and hooking on why couldn't I try something else with it?

So I made a back to back arrow which created this stabilized kind of structure as it leans on one another to make sure it doesn't fall apart. The diagonals of the arrow make for a interesting effect and could have been influences by the tabbing on the first prototype.