WOW ... incredibly beautiful.

ciao
torolf

hi, i really like your vessel chair, can i ask u a technical question? is the material of the seat surface intended to be flexible? or does it harden after the cure with resin? thanx

Thanks guys,
Vittorio, at this stage the vessel is a concept chair, but based on the information i have gathered for this project there are options for keeping the red parts semi-flexible. Depending on the kind of resin and the proportions of your mix you could control the flexibility of the material. Basically you would need an inner hard shell [similar to fiberglass/carbon fiber methods] with a layer of soft rubber[in the modular array project we used the flexible resin, you can check the pictures in my albums.]
getting the right color/finish with rubber would be the tricky part!

thanx mani

Hello!
It's beautiful! Interestingly, how it would look with using of a bit transparent fabric instead this red meterial. Maybe even you don't need to use every hole of voronoi, make it more random, I think. All the same I like it.

I like the idea of using transparent material, the only issue would be the structural integrity of the material but i guess with resin and fiber glass would be manageable.
The vessel chair is designed as an responsive mass-customized furniture. The structure works with 3 variables:
The users height, weight + a picture of them.
Based on this information the algorithm re-calculates the amount of structure needed for the height/weight ratio of the user and takes away the unnecessary material and changes the proportions to the most optimum dimensions. The users submitted picture,the third variable, is to be analysed for the colour selection of the chair. [this is the part I'm still developing] and the plan is to launch a websites that takes these three variables and produces the optimum chair!
take a look at the grasshopper screenshots that will give you a better idea, and i'll put together an animation to show what the script does.

Absolutely impressive! What if using textile/leather instead of fiberglass? It's true that you could apply different types of materials onto layers and it would be functional if appropriate combination.

possible!
the tricky part is keeping the extruded parts structural. fiberglass is one of the very few materials that has skin/structure in one.

hi, though the chair being interesting.. i think it lacks an understanding as far as voronoi pattern is concerned...
voronoi pattern is an optimum geometry and when u r using this i guess it would have been interesting to design a chair which has optimization in terms of form and material, hence as a whole, structural optimization.. thus exploiting the voronoi pattern...
now it is just extrusion on a 2d pattern, which is possible for any pattern(triangular, sqare, pentagonal, hexagonal, etc.)

if you can tell what were the criteria s of selecting the points to create a voronoi pattern on the side plane of the chair... it would be helpful in understanding why this pattern and hence justice to voronoi geometry

Hey Vineet, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Your comment is semi-valid, check the video attached to better understand the optimization process for this particular chair structure:
http://www.fishtnk.com/2009/08/12/vessel-chair-a-prototype-for-the-...
Sure you can use any geometry to optimize a structure, see what fit's your design ambitions better.