Raj Panchal

IR2025

This Chair is inspired by a bubble that always creates minimal shortest distance surface in between the frame. I made platonic Frames like Cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, pyramid and I made these platonic frames out of Metal rod(6mm dia) and Green Rod(0.5mm dia). After making models I dip it into the soap solution and I got that they will always find the smallest surface area between points or edges. Sitting Postures connected to my logic as minimal surface and the frame follows the grid of dodecahedron. The Rigid frame is made out of the metal rod. The frame stretches the sitting material Latex so it makes flat surface when not being used but it changes the surface shape when it is being used. When a person sits on it, it changes the all-over sitting form according to body weight. It is a multi-functional Chair, one is a recliner chair and the second is kajito. It easily turns into kajito from the recliner and recliners to kajito.  The members of the frame connected in a way such that it makes a triangulated form when observed from the sides but from the top, it looks like a hexagon and from the base, it looks like a pentagon.