Soap Bubble Chair
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Published on April 16, 2012
This thing was Featured on April 17, 2012
Description
This project that creates a chair from the shape of soap bubbles has recently been posted to Kickstarter. A soap bubble evenly distributes curvature throughout its shape, but at the same time equally distributes the structural forces as well. If you could harness this property for a structural system, you could use recycled materials and yield the same strength as high performance steel.
Anyone who would like is welcome to print the file for themselves, but the model was created to be a reward for my kickstarter. Please take a look and contribute if you want to help out.
kickstarter.com/projects/1748240161/soap-bubble-chair
Have a look at my website for more informational slide decks and videos that detail the ideas behind using the shape of a soap bubble in architecture and industrial design.
mSurfaces.com
Anyone who would like is welcome to print the file for themselves, but the model was created to be a reward for my kickstarter. Please take a look and contribute if you want to help out.
kickstarter.com/projects/1748240161/soap-bubble-chair
Have a look at my website for more informational slide decks and videos that detail the ideas behind using the shape of a soap bubble in architecture and industrial design.
mSurfaces.com
Instructions
There are three registration holes in both the top and the bottom print. Print out both, and then lop off the head of a normal sewing pin to like them up into the whole.
License
Soap Bubble Chair by thundermooo is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.
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Any chance of getting a complete model? More and more of us have dialed in our use of supports and have no problem printing full models.
from the looks of it i would gather that it might not even need support to print the whole model upright standing on it's feet. but having a complete model would help prove/disprove this assumption.