Vessel chair by Mani Mani

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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Comment by Vittorio Menna on July 19, 2009 at 7:15am: thanx mani

Comment by Mani Mani on July 16, 2009 at 7:53am: 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!

Comment by Vittorio Menna on July 16, 2009 at 7:28am: 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