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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.
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
Phase 3 - Designing a chair
Phase 4 - Development and prototyping
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