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Design development: Determining a material and fabrication strategy

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Design development: Determining a material and fabrication strategy

- In our last video we worked on refining our form. In this video we'll continue with design development, but we're going to take a break from modeling, and we're going to discuss our options for materials and methods of fabrication. Because of the organic form of the chair that we're producing, one that has a continuous surface with probably a pretty thin thickness, we have a couple of options. Traditionally, organic forms are harder to fabricate than orthogonal forms. For example, a wooden chair with straight legs and a back could be made from cut pieces of planed wood. But a chair with a shaped seat, or the form that we're creating, requires tools for shaping and lots of hours of work. So what are our options? One option is plastic. Plastic would allow you a very thin thickness which is, I think what we're looking for. There are many ways of producing a chair in plastic. There's injection molding, extrusion molding, blow molding, and rotational molding, among others. Each with…

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