Stumped Chair

For a build class we were assigned a pile of logs from some trees that were previously cut down from our campus, and instructed to make digital twins of them and come up with some design to make them into. Each log was to be used, and there was an additional hurdle of making the majority of the cuts with a Kuka robot arm (hence the need for digital twins). This was the first iteration I made to show my partners and to discuss what our logs could become; an attempt to try highly precise Japanese wood joinery with our roughly hewn logs, and then hide the joinery like they would in a temple. Inspired by a previous trip to Japan House, I used some photos I had taken of a wonderful joinery condition there as a reference. In the end we kept many of the joinery techniques but make them less precise to ease fabrication.