RECOGNITION

Stool Competition Winner

SIT Furniture Design Award, Honorable Mention 2023 Georgia Tech College of Design
SPECIFICATION

The object, in short.

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ANATOMY OF THE STOOL

Every cut has a job.

Select a callout to see how each feature answers a requirement.

Critique Stül hung on the atrium railing
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THE BRIEF

Cheap to make, simple to build, at home in the building.

The College of Design wanted a critique stool that was cheap, easy to manufacture and fit the design language of the building. Students wanted something light enough to carry to the critique area, and separate from their studio chair so they could leave their workspace set up.

MATERIAL CONTEXT · WHAT THE BUILDING IS MADE OF
Wood-clad columnWood doors in a tiled wall
Natural wood
Suspended wooden slat installationSlatted partition panels
Repeating geometry
Ribbed concrete wall and steel railingBent plywood chair leg
Industrial, exposed
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SKETCH → PROTOTYPE → TEST

The railing became the storage.

Visual research showed the atrium railings were underused yet easy to reach. If a stool could hang on them, it would be stored right where critiques happen.

Sketches of rail-hanging stool forms
FIG. 01 — FORM STUDIES FOR HANGING PROFILES
Slatted stool concept sketch
FIG. 02 — SLATTED CONCEPT

Full-scale rail tests

We built cardboard and foam prototypes of several hanging mechanisms and tested each on the real railing.

Cardboard prototype hanging on a railing
P-01 — HOOK AND TRAY
Several prototypes side by side
P-02 — SADDLE VARIANTS
Prototypes along the atrium railing
P-03 — IN CONTEXT
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One design clearly stood out. It still needed refining:

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DESIGNED FOR MANUFACTURE

From one sheet to one stool.

CNC nesting layout of all parts on one sheet 4 FT 4 FT
STEP 01 · NESTEvery part nests on a single 4×4 sheet, cut on a CNC router.
Cut plywood parts before assembly
STEP 02 · CUTSlotted profiles come off the machine ready to fit.
Assembled stool hanging on the railing
STEP 03 · ASSEMBLESlot-together joinery, no screws or fasteners.
IN USE

Hung, lifted, sat on.

A row of stools stored along the railing
Student lifting the stool off the railing Student seated during a critique Close-up of the slatted seat
REQUIREMENTS → FEATURES

How the brief was met

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