Brazil
2009 Plywood, CNC machined
Artist：Daniel Widrig
Brazil_Robotically manufactured, experimental chair.
“Brazil”, a limited-edition armchair designed by London based architect and designer Daniel Widrig. Featuring a structural bifurcation system, the chair has three legs that branch out from the floor and smoothly transform into armrests, a backrest and a seating surfaces in one fluid movement.
Form-Finding: The chair has been digitally prototyped, structurally and ergonomically tested and optimized through digital dynamics simulation as used in the aerospace, automotive, and biomechanics industries. This process allowed for a fast and flexible design development and a straight-forward realization of the complex geometry of the piece.
Construction: The chair is built from laminated wood sheets via a 5-axis CNC router. To save materials and production time, its geometry is split into multiple components that are digitally nested onto sheets of laminated wood and CNC machined. The components are then assembled, glued and hand finished. Through the CNC milling, the layered structure of the laminated wood is exposed and underlines the topography of the chair’s surface.
