Climbing Plant - Plywood chair lasercut from a single sheet of plywood intended to help climbing plants grow and reclaim land from humans
Fabricated in two days at Central Saint Martins (Product Design Short Couse 2024)
3D Printed Miniature Prototype
Project to be featured on Central Saint Martin's website.
This chair is inspired by climbing plants commonly found in British gardens. The chair is made for plants to grow on, just like how climbing plants have found ways to rise above the hostile environments that urban life creates for them.
The form is inspired by trellises, the vertical shape of which helps climbing plants to grow. Two patterns are used here, a more irregular pattern derived from the veins of leaves that represents nature, and a triangular tessellation that represents the industrial construction of humans. Together, these two patterns intersect and support one another to form the chair. One is not possible without the other.
PDF of design thinking is available upon request.