Parametric Seating Assigment Part 1 – Spring 2013

Parametric Seating Part 1-a

Parametric Seating Part 1-b

Parametric Seating- Ruth Rocker

For the Parametric Seating assignment I chose the Ruth Rocker designed by David Trubridge. I like the organic form and the beauty of the simplicity functionality of the chair. For the assignment, I chose to design four drivers that will change the original characteristic. In the images above, it shown the analysis, the designed drivers and the surface model of the chair.

Parametric Seating Assignment – Spring 2013

The first assignment for the spring courses can be found by following this link.  For this four week assignment, students are asked to accurately model a precedent seating system of their choice and to extend the model parametrically using grasshopper.

We did this assignment once before last summer, and the results were very strong.  The intent of the assignment is to let students focus on the fundamentals of parametric modeling by taking the design work out of the project’s scope.

The assignment is also embedded below: