Assignment 4 - Madhura & Charmaine

Initial Rhino render

For our furniture piece, we decided to make a unit of sheet material that would then be multiplied in various iterations to form a bigger structure. This structure would eventually become a cladding on the walls of the living space, and the protruding parts of the unit would become the structure that holds the mattresses. 

For this project, we explored how every unit could be connected to its adjoining unit.

We made a physical model to better understand the strength of this individual pieces at their weakest points i.e. where the form curves and has the most force put ton it, because of the mattresses and the people. We changed some of our geometry based on our observations from laser cutting the pieces in 1/16" basswood. [some of them broke at the curves because they were very thin at these points)

Aluminium bars go through the L-brackets, that make the angle stronger, to sustain the weight of the mattress and the person sleeping on it.

Once we had our Rhino file, we made three router paths. The first one was the 2-axis horizontal roughing to cut out the area that needed to be shaped as a curved surface. To get this curved surface, we made a 3-axis parallel finishing path. In the end, we made a profiling path to cut outside all the lines to get the desired pieces.