Chair Only
Emerald Wise with Habitat Lab and Tom Patterson.
Architecture Studio Project
School of Architecture and Built Environment
The Univeristy of Newcastle, NSW
2022
Emerald Wise with Habitat Lab and Tom Patterson.
Architecture Studio Project
School of Architecture and Built Environment
The Univeristy of Newcastle, NSW
2022
Chair Only was an online furniture design and construction unit that
scaffolded a student led exploration of material and construction poetics.
The unit was centred on developing a healthy model for teaching intensive units online, that aimed at developing studio culture, and embodied learning.
The students developed 9 sketch designs for different chairs and carried one design through to shop drawings that including specifications of materials, finishes, stockists, manufactures, and completed join prototypes.
Each student designed and set up a making studio in their own lockdown environments and engaged in the construction of a series of complex Japanese timber joins using only hand tools. Simultaneously they engaged in a series of online thinking rooms that combined lecture with design esquisse. Each of these were centred on the life cycle of varied materials - from extraction, to manufacture, to available product, and construction and finishing methods.
The unit was centred on developing a healthy model for teaching intensive units online, that aimed at developing studio culture, and embodied learning.
The students developed 9 sketch designs for different chairs and carried one design through to shop drawings that including specifications of materials, finishes, stockists, manufactures, and completed join prototypes.
Each student designed and set up a making studio in their own lockdown environments and engaged in the construction of a series of complex Japanese timber joins using only hand tools. Simultaneously they engaged in a series of online thinking rooms that combined lecture with design esquisse. Each of these were centred on the life cycle of varied materials - from extraction, to manufacture, to available product, and construction and finishing methods.