For my studio, I was assigned to make a collaborative furniture item that could be used at school. One of the problems I was faced with was there not being enough desk space for students. With that in mind, I created a chair that housed an expandable table inside of it. Once the table is removed and unfolded, the inside of the chair can be used as a storage compartment for the student's backpack. If students want to work together, they can face the chairs and tables towards each other to create a large table for collaborative projects. When put with other chairs, the two seats without the tables can form a bench. I believe that using this design will maximize the use of space and create an easy way for students to either work together or by themselves.

In offices, homes, and schools around the world, there is a need for desks that can function as individual workspaces and connect to form a table for group collaboration. In my design, I sought to accomplish this with added creativity in the shape of the furniture. After going through several iterations and different designs, I choose my jigsaw puzzle design; square desks in the shape of puzzle pieces that connect perfectly to one another in any shape or number of desks to form a whole table. 
    With help from a representative from NuVu, I created 2-inch models of the desks in Rhinoceros3D and laser cut them from 1/8th inch thick wood. After putting them together, I realized there was a design flaw, and I corrected this in my next design in order to add more support and even stability to the top of the desks. My final project is about 1 foot in size on the top and stands about 1 foot from the ground. It is stable and is able to support the weight of a laptop and textbooks. I was planning to make it at full scale, but due to lack of thicker wood and limited time with the laser cutter, I was unable to do so. 
    Based on feedback from teachers and members of the community on Innovation Studio night, I believe that these puzzle desks were a success. At full size, they could have a place in children’s hospitals or elementary schools, as the creative jigsaw puzzle design especially appeals to children. They could also have a place in offices and homes as a connective piece between individual work and group collaboration. 
 

We were given the task to make a piece of furniture with multiple purposes. My partner had the idea to create something that made it easier for him, a very tall person, to sit in a bean bag chair. With the help of the NUVU coaches, we started adapting a short tables of sorts into something for professional use. Going back and forth with the NUVU coaches and taking suggestions from our piers lead us to our final design- one that was closer to our original idea than the more formal iteration. 

If we were to make a full size version of our model I'm sure we would encounter problems. With more time and full scale iterations, we could solve these and continue our progress to make our design the best it could be. I believe that the model we have created servers its purpose well and is developed as far as it could be.

This year in our NUVU studio we were challenged to modify a piece of furniture to make it more convenient for us to use.  My group and I decided that we would modify a bean bag chair.  The problem was that as a tall person it is often difficult to sit in a bean bag chair since they are all the way on the floor.  Throughout the class we came up multiple iterations of our design.  We first started out with a design that was similar to an egg chair.  The idea was to have something that looked like a standard chair that would have big enough edges to hold in the bean bag chair.  Once we created our prototype we realized that it wouldn't work well for holding the bean bag in place.  We then moved on to the base idea that is similar to our final product.  One of the NUVU coaches that we met with showed us how we could make it less boxy with a design that flows well.  Our base would lift the chair up off the ground and make it easier to sit in.  We did this by creating a design in rhino.  From there we brought the design over to the laser cutter and cut it out of wood.  We then took the pieces and snapped them together and applied glue.  We finished by making small bean bag that fit nicely on the base.  

         This year in our innovation studio, our class was given the task of making multi-purpose furniture. I was in the group of Cobe and Jack, and we created a table that could fold up easily so that the owner could roll it. At first we made a cardboard model consisting of paperclip leegs, so that we could simulate the rolling part of the table. This model ran into a problem however, it could not hold any weight without collapsing. We went back to the drawing board and made a cardboard model that had cardboard circular legs so that it could still roll, but also hold up weight. The only problem was is that the table could still not hold any weight. Next, we went to the lasercutter and cut out a model made out of thin wood. A Nuvu coach, Pedro, helped us out with our legs, he helped us make them more circular because at the time they were more ovular. In doing this the table would be able to roll, also, Pedro helped us keep the table in place while rolling by adding a slot in the legs so that when the table folded up, the tabletop would fall into those slots and stay put. After making the wood model, we decided it was time to try and make something life size. We went to Mr. Judy so that he could help us with all of the measurments. While making this life size model, we came across one problem, all of our measurments were at 1/10 scale,  so we had to blow everything up to actual size. All in all, we ended up making our table and we would love to continue improving it, maybe by making our next model out of composite plastic.

I first came up with this concept that the cube would be a chair with all of the sides as replaceable wood/ cushion tiles, then this cube would then fold out into a table. At first, I didn't configure my first iteration with the idea of the frame and kept it all in one piece, I was quick to find that it would be very difficult to support the table when extended so I rethought that idea and came up with the idea of the frame. When I reconfigured my concept I put together a 5 faced cube with the bottom as a base for a scissor lift that would reach beneath the hollow cube so it would be adjustable and all the sides would fold out and turn into a cross form, giving 4 individual places to work that are still close together to be collaborative for students to work together. However, the scissor lift on my third iteration wasn't able to collapse or extend so I went in on rhino and re-designed it to where it would be a working scissor lift. I then moved on to my final iteration, made of particle board. When folded down in a cube, the chair stands 4.in tall and wide. It is made of particle board and consists of 7 hinges, 2 on each wing except for one wing. There is a scissor lift that supports the table when the wings extend, the scissor lift can collapse to about 1.5 inches off the ground and extend up to 6 inches off the ground. Each panel is 3in x 3in, one side is hard particle board, and the other is a black cushion. 

Our Studio was to make  a multi-purpose furniture piece. The tables that are made to fold don't really fold, the legs are the only part that folds. Since it only folds in the legs it still takes up alot of space so I wanted to make a solution for that problem. I came up with a table that folds all the way down to take up as little space as posible. The folding design of my table allows the table to come down and allows for less space to be needed. To close the table you simply pull the ring and it comes down easily with the design I came up with. To open the table simply push the ring towads the top of the table to push it up to its table position. My first prototype had chairs attatched on both sides, but then one of the NUVU staff told me it was a better idea to stick with the tabel design instead. Towards the end of my project another NUVU staff told me I should create a ring to allow for the table to fold down and up.