From our perspective, our entire scheme for the bathhouse is to provide for the necessities of what a bathhouse is composed of. We divided it into three categories: sleeping/living, meeting, and bathing. To address the sleeping/living aspect of the project, our furniture piece is a sleeping surface that doubles as a storage compartment. Addressing all of the hiker's basic needs for sleeping/living with one furniture piece saves space and an regular sized room can accommodate more residents.
The individual pieces were cut by the CNC router, using profiling to create the different shapes and pocketing to create the hinge holes. After the pieces were cut, 0.5" diameter dowels were used in the different holes to connect the pieces, creating a swinging hinge. The other panels create the overall box shape, using screws and other hardware. The front panel is a bit lower than the side panels to allow easier access to opening to box to reach the stored materials inside.
A point of trouble that arose from constructing this furniture piece was in the CNC router part of the project. We profiled each piece before pocketing the holes, and because some of the pieces moved during the profiling process, the pocketed holes were sometimes misaligned, and some manual adjustments in woodshop were necessary. Overall, the piece turned out nicely, and at the point in time, it needs a bit more trimming and sanding to clean it up.
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