Vessel chair by Mani Mani

by Mani Mani

Jun 29, 2009

The design of the Vessel chair is driven by the Voronoi tessellation pattern. The Grasshopper™ plugin for Rhinoceros is utilized in order to model the parametrically designed frame; The chair frame is constructed with one inch plywood, milled with 3axis CNC machine. The seat surface is created by extruding the edges of the structure cut-outs of the frame. The material is flexible polyester resin fiberglass.

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  • Vineet Agarwal

    aaaa.... now i relate to it....
    thankx for the link...
    myself with my colleague are working on similar thing....
    we are trying to develop a chair based on voronoi pattern, what we did till now is we hav located points n XYZ dimensions but the pattern generated in 2d pattern.So now on what parameters we can develop a 3d configuration somewhat more than extrusion in one axis.
    can u also tell, how did u locate the points on the side plane of the chair through the paramaters u have defined and how did u calculate the load and material aspect(for optimization, by physical models or ny software).
    ur feedback will be greatly helpful n we will mail u our development as soon as we reach to something substantial...

    Aug 26, 2010

  • Mani Mani

    Vineet, have you looked at 3D voronoi plugin for rhino:http://wiki.mcneel.com/labs/pointsetreconstruction
    there was a discussion on 3Dvoronoi in GH, look into it,
    but as the structure goes, it really depends on your construction and materials.

    Aug 26, 2010

  • Francesco

    beautyful

    Jun 21, 2012