Amorphous Glowing Furniture
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It's a chair. It's a bed. It's a light fixture. This transformable, light emitting, load bearing design combines the objects in a conventional living room into one fabrication. It is simplicity in form and integration of function that makes this creation unique. Modules can be combined to create larger compositions like real life Tetris. The module can easily be converted into different shapes to facilitate a wide range of functions.
Eight cubes made of 1/4 inch thick acrylic panels fit together like puzzle pieces. There are no screws, bolts or glues - the linen skin provides tension that holds the cubes together while also providing diffuse properties to the light. A simple circuit of LEDs (one LED for each cube) is strung from cube to cube at each joint. Joints are created by stitching the fabric skin together at specific locations to maximize ease of functionality while maintaining simplicity. It transforms easily and in seconds. The proportions are specific to furniture typologies; as one cube is the height of a step, two cubes is the height of a chair, and four cubes is the height of a counter top.
Paper Model,
Multiple Configurations
Demonstration
of
Connections
built module
