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| design-aerobics final design projects of designboom's second design-aerobics course under the theme : folding chairs, spring 2003 ---
--- in the first two lines of the LESSON 16-NATURE you wrote: today there is much talk of ecological design : the only ecological design I know is that of manufacturing fewer objects I've decided that I'd like to find a way to turn old shipping pallettes into folding lawn chairs. it seems like these are such a waste of wood. every factory shipping dock, car repair shop or train yard has piles and piles of these going to waste. I also like the idea of sitting on a palette chair. I remember lots of good times spent as a teenager hanging out in alleys with friends with stacks of paletts as our stools. I've sketched out the folding mechanism with the key feature being the back held up by a spike of wood stuck in the ground. It also allows the back to be raised to any angle. I want it to be able to fold back into a palette for storage, to still be able to be used as a palette and to show it's origins. I decided that my wooden palette folding chair should be a do-it-yourself project so I've done a that has a description and drawings and a page that is the plans and instructions. a project © ryan moeckly, usa    --- --- 'hatchling' my premise was to create a folding chair that was 'something' else in its folded state and not merely a consolidated chair. I imagine eggs lying around until they are needed to 'hatch' into chairs. I also have not seen too many folding upholstered chairs. this one would be blond leather to match the egg concept and to be more 'animate.' a project © esther ratner, usa  --- --- 'nick' folding chair, having a single back leg gives it a little more fun... I imagine these rectangular forms would look better in sheetmetal, like a tractor seat. I also like the idea of something heavy like casters or wheels at the bottom of the chair. a project © larry cheng, usa   --- ---
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