FOUR BOARD BOOK TABLE

OVERVIEW
to design and construct a rectilinear form that has four wooden planar components

  • 11" x 1" x 60" poplar wood board

  • wood-making tools (chop saw, jointer, planar, table saw, bandsaw, handheld router, drill press) and screws, fasteners, and plugs

DURATION
6 weeks

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BRAINSTORMING

  • researching poplar wood

  • profile sketches

  • understanding joint mechanisms

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PROTOTYPING

  • quick foam core models for ideation development

  • testing limits of sturdiness and balance with proportional measurements

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TECHNICAL DRAWINGS

  • completed on Solidworks

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RENDERINGS

  • analog drawing of fabrication process with woodshop tools (I anticipated to physically make this book table, but the COVID-19 pandemic led me to finish with digital renderings only)

  • digital book table renderings completed on Keyshot

ANIMATION

  • animation of final book table with live assembly and exploded view completed on Keyshot

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