digital fabrication
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Tartan Group Staircase
With less than a week until the deadline for installation, we needed to completely reconfigure the design for this prefabricated steel stair. Because the apartment was being lived in continuously, we needed to minimize on-site installation time. We built the stair in our shop in four segments. We then hoisted them into place, bolted them…
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Echo Chairs
The Echo line of furniture from Forest City Fabricators is comprised of laterally stacked, CNC-cut plywood profiles. I worked with Forest City’s John Arthur to design the newest additions to the line, the Lounge and Rock chairs. Analysis of the structural forces at play in each chair allowed me to judiciously cut voids from the…
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Flat-Pack Furniture
In collaboration with Rustbelt Welding. With the Rustbelt fabrication team, I designed this series of flat-packable steel furniture. The profiles are cut out of 1/4″ plate steel and fit together exclusively by friction. No fasteners or glue are used. Total time from initial concept to debut exhibition was 72 hours. Sketches were worked out in two…