Assignment4: Aileena & Nahyung

Our furniture is a bench that is placed mainly in the pool area and throughout the entire bath house. The bench is made of modulars that consist of three parts. A top plank for sitting, a bottom piece, and vertical elements that serve as the connection between the two.

Yellow&Black-a modular. Green-another modular that interlocks/feed into the other two

The vertical pieces have tabs on each end that feed into slits on the top and the bottom planks.
The idea was to build a bench that is interlocking and is adjustable to any angle that we want them to be assembled in. The interlocking quality in a modular and also as a whole resonates with our wall placement and circulation idea in the bath house.

Diagram of primary wall structure in bath house

We had two tries on CNC routing our joint detail. Both times, our biggest issue was friction fitting the tabs into the slits. We tried to account for the fillet that the router bit creates when it's cutting inside he line, but did not think of the extra 0.005 inches that needed to be offset. So, on the second run, we tried surface milling the slits so that it fit the curve of the tab exactly. But, forgetting about the offset again, we had to go to wood shop and sand every slit and cut down every tab. As a result though, we got a perfect friction fit on our joint.