Assignment 4: Chandler Archbell & Brian Bollens

For our furniture piece, we designed a bunk system that was suspended from the northeast side of our bath house.  Due to this exposure, our bunkers woke up to a wonderful view of saco lake and Crawford Notch.  However, in the case that they did not want the sun to wake them up, or they just hated seeing nature from their own bed, we designed a shutter to close off the window.  In our connection detail, we focused on how the door meets the rest of the bed enclosure.  First of all, we designed to door to be flush with the wall when it was opened and closed, making the whole enclosure appear seamless to its inhabitant.  We also cut out a curve in the ceiling of the bunk that accentuated the door's movement.

We only mocked up the top corner of the bunk systems.  We used reclaimed particle board desktops because plywood is so overrated.  This is the door in its closed position.

Good morning Brian!

The door seamlessly meets the wall, while its movement is articulated by a simple curve.

After we made our first mock up, we realized that the door did not remain flush with the inner walls once it was moved to its closed position.  Because our seamless idea was only true half the time, we needed to further develop our joint.

I see the seam!

This was our new design.  It involved cutting a slight arch out of the side walls.  Our door got a 45º cut so that there was only one, seamless point of contact.

We did our research.  The ideal hinge was a Rockwell SOSS invisible hinge.  It becomes embedded into the wood, and it is perfectly flush with the wall when closed.