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Parametric Furniture: Renders

This week I finished creating my table. I switched from a coffee table to an end table, because I wanted the stem of the table to be longer, to better represent the shape of a plant. This table is a Voronoi patterned end table that is meant for a house plant to be a part of the furniture. The concept came from the question: how can plants become more integrated into our indoor environments? Plants, at least in my house, just sit on top of shelves and tables, this way the plant is fully a part of the furniture, and the growth of the plant determines the final design of the table. The name of this table is Nature Integrated Table.  The Voronoi pattern is inspired by the shapes of plant cells, and the overall shape of the table is inspired by a blooming plant. If this table was full size my hope is that the plant would be put in the dirt directly in the centre of the table, without a pot. This way the roots and the plant would start to grow through the Voronoi. The pattern also has na...

Parametric Furniture: Progress 2

 I'm working on building my plant coffee table in Grasshopper and Rhino this week. Things went pretty well this week. I build the base of my table and created the Voronoi pattern. I just have a few questions about what I've done so far. For the Voronoi pattern, I have created a gradient for its density. It looks good on the base, but I can't figure out how to change the direction of the gradient. The next part of the project I am working on is the top of the table. I am currently reading about the best way to create the surface I need. The challenge I'm having is I'm not sure how to make a variable surface with places for plant pots that is also using the Voronoi texture. I can only make the tabletop in Rhino, then set it as the curve in the Voronoi definition. This is okay, but I would like to try to make it variable. I'm happy with the progress I made this week, but am a bit nervous about finishing by next week.

Parametric Furniture Model: Concept Phase

This week I came up with some ideas for a piece of parametric furniture. I started by researching other examples of furniture and other objects that are defined as parametric. I noticed additive designs looked really interesting, I also liked how the objects made out of additive patterns tended to look lighter and required less material. Common patterns of meshes I tried to use were hexagons, neuron-like shapes, or shapes that mimicked plant cell clusters. Next, I looked into materials, I found a variety of materials that could work but based on the texture I want to create, I think plastic is the most likely material I would go with. Here are some visual examples of the surface I want to create: Here is a link to the document with all the Parametric Object Research  and where the images are sourced. After I finished my research I began to sketch some ideas. I was really interested in the idea of incorporating plants into furniture. I chose the concept of a coffee table that has de...