Furniture Project.

For our next project working in teams we are to design and make a piece of furniture or object that reflects  contemporary culture and domestic life.
Materials are obviously going to play a big part in this project, so my group has decided to research initially, pre-existant materials that can be re-used or  re-cycled.

Pallets!
After seeing numerous unused pallets lying around the university campus, I looked further into how they could be re-used, as there structure is ideal for re-cycling.
A design company called  Studiomama have looked at re-cycling pallets, and have come up with some great simple solutions.

 

The simplicity of these designs allows them to be constructed fairly easily, this is something I will bear in mind when designing for our project.

Lighting is also another aspect to look at and incorporate into our design. Here are just a few of the designs I came accross.

During a trip to the local re-cycling center and dump, we came accross a large amount of tube lights still intact, these could be used to create some sort of mood lighting in our design, similar to the ' Re-cycled Tube Light' by Castor Canadensis.

I love these lights made from large quantities of  disused objects.

 

'Millenium Light'   by Lighting Designer Stuart Haygarth

The Lighting designs above play on the translucent quality of many everyday objects that can be easily collected.This is something I will look to incorporate in our design.