Chairs

Bundle - a biobased chair

Navn
Kirstine Nørgaard Sejersen
Uddannelsesgrad
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Design
Institut
Bygningskunst og Design
Program
Furniture Design - Products, Materials and Contexts
År
2024
Udmærkelser
Grete Jalks legat

Bundle is the result of material-driven investigations of the potential of biobased composites in furniture design. The project was done in collaboration with Jón Hinrik Höskuldsson. Through experimentation, we found a material composition and a set of design principles that allowed us to design a lightweight, mono-material chair. The chair is produced by thermo-pressing flax fibers and PLA into rigid shells.

Jón & Kirstine with Bundle
Kirstine Sejersen and Jón Hinrik Höskuldsson with Bundle

When starting this project our goal was to enhance the properties of plastic-based products while simultaneosly reducing their environmental impact. Specifically, we wanted to increase the aesthetic appeal of plastic products and use less material in their production, without losing strength and durability. This can be achieved by incorporating flax fibers into a plastic matrix. The plastic matrix is a PLA derived from cornstarch making the composite both 100% biobased and biodegradable.

Our project comprised of four key phases:    

    -    Experimentation to establish the ideal composition of the flax/PLA composite

    -    Form investigations to understand the materials  mechanical properties and to learn about possible ways of constructing products with the material

    -    A design process where we took our findings and implemented them in a monomaterial chair design 

   -    A development and prototyping phase where 1:1 prototypes of the design were produced.

Phase 1 and 2 - Material and form investigations 

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Breakdown of materials in composite
Breakdown of materials in composite

Phase 3 - Designing a chair 

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Process
Scale model sketching

Phase 4 - Development and prototyping 

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Gluing bamboo floorboards into large blocs for milling
Gluing bamboo floorboards into large blocs for milling

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Det Kongelige Akademi understøtter FN’s verdensmål

Siden 2017 har Det Kongelige Akademi arbejdet med FN’s verdensmål. Det afspejler sig i forskning, undervisning og afgangsprojekter. Dette projekt har forholdt sig til følgende FN-mål
Grete Jalks legat

Grete Jalks legat

Legatudvalget sagde: ”Deres viden om materialer, og deres måde at omsætte deres viden til form, er imponerende. Projektet udfordrer den konventionelle forståelse af møbelkonstruktion med stor respekt for funktionaliteten. Deres evne til at kunne stille spørgsmålstegn, redefinere og optimere design på nye bio-baserede materialers præmisser, gør det muligt for Kirstine og Jón, at løfte deres arbejde til et formmæssigt stærkt, nytænkende og innovativt resultat”.

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Grete Jalks legat

Bo Bedre new talent award 2024

One of four winners of Bo Bedre´s new talent at 3 Days of Design

Plastic Design Student Award

Winner alongside Jón Hinrik Höskuldsson

Frøken Marie Månssons Legat

"Legatet tildeles dygtige, ubemidlede studerende, som under de første års studier har vist flid og gode evner, og for hvem modtagelsen af legatet vil give mulighed for foretagelse af rejser i studieøjemed, til hvilket formål legatbeløbene fortrinsvis udbetales"
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Exhibitor at "70% Less CO2" at The Royal Academy

My bachelor project "A fungal Opportunity" was selected to be a part of the exhibition "70% Less CO2"
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Exchange at Eindhoven Design Academy

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Bachelors Degree - The Royal Academy

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Research assistant at The Royal Academy

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