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Material Scourcing

Soft Medical Tube

Made of medical grade PVC

Crystal-clear with uniform diameter throughout the length

Cricket Ball Offcuts

 

Made up of four pieces of leather which are shaped like a peel of a quartered orange. The pieces of leather are bound together with a sewn seam which is slightly raised. The core of a cricket ball is made from cork with layers of tightly wound string around it. For men's cricket, the ball must weigh between 155.9 and 163.0 g and measure between 224 and 229 mm in circumference. 

Cork inside a cricket is an elastic material and helps the cricket balls to bounce as much as they do. This cork is not actually put in a bulky manner inside a cricket ball, but they are cut into small pieces and tightly wounded by strings to keep them together. And then a four piece leather support is applied from the top, which is also sealed with strings but this time, some fixing glues are also applied to keep them intact, which ultimately results in giving a razor sharp edges to the cricket balls.

Corrugated Teflon Hose

Corrugated, Convoluted PTFE hose is processed from the smooth PTFE hose, and is more flexible in bending, so as to replace low mechanical strength pipes made by graphite, ceramic and glass.

Hoses come standard with thermal insulation and are available with a tough, extruded polyurethane jacket for outdoor service or an abrasion resistant,braided polyester sleeve for indoor use:

Generally unaffected by all chemicals (except melted alkaline metals) used in laundry, rubber, chemical refrigeration industries and for vacuum.

Timber Offcuts

Part A - Research and site visit

 LANEWAY CULTURE

- Melbourne’s center place attracts local workers, who may stop before and after work for a coffee and something to eat.

- The visuals and theme of the laneway appeals to a younger generation, youth and possible uni students as it is a social destination for them.

- The culture is diverse as laneway is home to many cultures such as the art culture music culture, youth culture, and fashion/entertainment culture.

LANEWAY, MELBOURNE

 

The laneway is home to several vibrant bars, cafes, restaurants, boutiques, sushi bars and shops, as well as some of Melbourne's best examples of street art and graffiti, particularly stencil graffiti, known as "City Lights". 

This precinct has been used in tourist promotion campaigns for the city.

It is made up of a laneway and arcade that runs between Flinders Lane and Collins Street.The laneway is the most interesting part because it has a hotpotch of colourful cafes and arcade shops. 

Above the shops are residential apartments, some with small metal balconies overlooking the lane.

LANEWAY BRIEF

 

 

 - Central place, laneway is very narrow and shop owners have very little space to set up table and chairs outside.

- Limited space also requires furniture to be stackable for convenient storage.

- The chair will most likely be used for durations of up to 1 hr, as an average therefore it must provide adequate comfort for the user for a long period of time.

- Solid materials with weather resistance will be needed as the furniture will be outdoors for long days.

- Uneven floors along the strips is a loop hole which needs to be solved, therefore the chair needs to be sturdy.

- The white line we see in images below, is there for a reason. This line is like the yellow line at a train station. No furniture is allowed past this line as a regulation.



 

 

Inspiration and Products on the Market

Here are some products that appealed to me as portable chairs made from waste products. These particular products have given me idea's in my concept generation.

These chairs are particularly interesting in terms of being stackable, have a secondary function and also being made from the one offcut piece.