Production Flat Pack Stool
The overall goal for this project was to use the 3-Axis CNC router to create a flat pack stool design all made from a 4'x4' piece of plywood using only 2D Contour tool pathing. The structure of the stool had to stand without glue or fasteners. Another design parameter that I gave myself was to efficiently use the 4'x4' as best as possible leaving as little waste material as I could.
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Details
Year
Designed in Rhino, Built with 1/2" Plywood using a 3-Axis CNC Router
2024
Preliminary Sketches
A workflow I've grown into is to try and get my first ideas out of my head and on paper as fast as possible. From here I like to move straight into 3D which for this project was Rhino. I looked over the initial notebook sketches and transferred the basic shapes and ideas into Rhino to get a better understanding for how these objects would sit in space. I distilled my preliminary ideas into four distinct designs to bring to the class critique.
After a group critique with peers the group unanimously decided that the most interesting and dynamic of these was the third one. However the group thought there was room for improvement especially with regards to communicating the overall design language. ​
This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole as I continued to tweak to change the model until i was satisfied with how all of the different shapes flowed together. I ended up going through 12 design iterations before I settled on the final design.
Updated Design
Production Gallery
