Parametric Seating – Voronoi Chair

The chair I chose was the Voronoi Chair.

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I started with making the surface model in Rhino and using Grasshopper to apply the voronoi pattern onto it.

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Because the voronoi pattern can only be applied to a planar surface, it was very difficult to apply the pattern to my curved chair.  I therefore had to create a reference plane.  I created a rectangle in Grasshopper as my surface reference plane to build the voronoi pattern onto. From there, I essentially projected the points onto my organic chair.

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Making my chair such that the polylines were fluid also proved difficult. Many of you may remember my previous result, such that one could die from sitting on it.

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BAD – CHAIR WILL CUT YOU

I used the Weaverbird tools to create a mesh out of my polylines.

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Design Drivers and Resulting Chairs:

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I used Grasshopper to control the amount of voronoi points I wanted in the chair, the thickness of my chair, and the width of the polylines.

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Number of Points
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Thickness
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Width

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