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Lounge Chair (Image 1)
Emmet Truxes ‘06
School of Architecture
The formal and theoretical inspiration for this chair prototype results from projects produced in the first half of Jesse Reiser’s spring 2005 undergraduate design studio in the School of Architecture at Princeton University. The last part of a comprehensive study of surfacing techniques focuses on the single modular unit as skin. The regular hexagon presents itself as a suitable module because of its ability to self-tessellate. Hundreds of hexagon nuts form the surface for the design model, acting as planar modules surfacing a complex curved form. As the rows of hexagons twist around the curves, they react and break from their neighbors, forming negative space.