COAT STAND WITH ADJUSTABLE COMPONENTS ALONG A SPIRAL TRACK FOR PLEASURE IN FUNCTION.
Project brief.
Use dissertation findings to design an item of furniture that has the potential of creating a lasting emotional connection with the user. Design should be targeted at the domestic middle class market.
The product.
HELIXI is designed to grow with the user through their life by adapting to their ever changing needs in adjustment and ease in transportation using no permanent fixings.
Routine daily interaction is key in sustaining a connection. Pleasure received from manipulating the component pieces emulates the same pleasure as children's educational toys. This feature creates an admirable aesthetic which when regularly used over time, can develop into dependency, with the user more reluctant to separate with the product.
HELIXI has 7 hangers following the spiral track which effortlessly slot into vertical channels positioned to ensure there can never be a hanger placed directly above another. Creativity, curvilinearity, function, simplicity, pleasure and originality are all important factors in the design of the spiraled track. Designed to be manufactured with ease on a 5 axis CNC router. Prototype was fabricated on a centre lathe and milling machine.
Made available in Beech, Sapele and Walnut for the central stem.
Use dissertation findings to design an item of furniture that has the potential of creating a lasting emotional connection with the user. Design should be targeted at the domestic middle class market.
The product.
HELIXI is designed to grow with the user through their life by adapting to their ever changing needs in adjustment and ease in transportation using no permanent fixings.
Routine daily interaction is key in sustaining a connection. Pleasure received from manipulating the component pieces emulates the same pleasure as children's educational toys. This feature creates an admirable aesthetic which when regularly used over time, can develop into dependency, with the user more reluctant to separate with the product.
HELIXI has 7 hangers following the spiral track which effortlessly slot into vertical channels positioned to ensure there can never be a hanger placed directly above another. Creativity, curvilinearity, function, simplicity, pleasure and originality are all important factors in the design of the spiraled track. Designed to be manufactured with ease on a 5 axis CNC router. Prototype was fabricated on a centre lathe and milling machine.
Made available in Beech, Sapele and Walnut for the central stem.
HELIXI | 2014