Prototype: Sluice

Sluice:
The focus this time is on how to “up-cycle” the recycled wood and plastic decking material left over after building the uber-deck of your dreams.
Throwing away the odds ends and scraps of such an energy intensive product like plastic could easily undo any benefit in using recycled materials. Here is a way to protect the environment as we know it - but from a different vantage point.
Most wood / plastic composite decking materials can be welded together with epoxy and bent into curved shapes with the application of low levels of heat.

Quickly accessorize your deck with matching deck chairs. This zero waste solution makes sure that as little of our dwindling supply of oil is tossed into landfills.



Sinuously curvilinear loungers are bent into shape and snapped together - the same way the deck itself was constructed.

These chairs can be used indoors also, just drag it through your patio door and add an Azara drapery cushion - now you’ve got a comfortable lounge chair.

The individual decking strips can be taken apart for storage or rearrangement for added flexibility and the decking material comes in an assortment of colors and textures to match any deck.

Furniture prototype: CompoSITe

CompoSITe:
This project seeks to expressively explore the limits of high strength laminate technology.
Made from fiber reinforced polymer composite materials, the sofa, love seat and club chair are expressions of the strength found in these laminates sheets.
There is weightlessness in lines of this design as the absolute minimum amount of material is being used for maximum effect.
Being a laminated product, the furniture carcass can be produce in an unlimited array of colors, finishes and patterns., from matte to glossy, from smooth to textured and from subtle to primary.
Draped over the carcass is an innovative and new approach to upholstery.

Instead of being attached, the cushion and cladding is simply draped over the seating in layers.

Now, any number of choices can be made independent of the laminate base.

Fabric or leather, wool felt or silk, or anything in between can be mixed or matched to the client’s desire.

And given the easy of interchangeability, divergent combinations can be ordered for different seasons or occasions, without any major effort or change to the base seat. A new level of user responsiveness has been developed with this highly flexible systemic approach to sofa design.

The internal voids and wide sidearms of this design, build in a high level of added functionality.

They can be used as storage areas, side tables or extra seating.

The low, horizontal stance and industrial edginess of these pieces are in response to the high volumed spaces of raw artist lofts.

The example shown in these renderings teams a matte finished battleship grey outer laminate with a black and white stained wood inner laminate.

The coordinating drape cushions are of industrial wool felt in two shades of dark grey.