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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.