Objective. The idea of the course was to focus on ergonomic devices, specifically seats, that have the ability to be adaptable and reconfigurable according to new paradigms. The industrial systems that determined the modern furniture lines today are questioned by disruptive production techniques, the digital revolution and numerical control drives new trends in their production.

The technological universe of 3D modeling and digital manufacturing allows complex geometries that have pushed the discipline towards unimagined limits around new standards of production and efficiency under a non-standardized line and maximum customization.

Structure. We wanted to achive the minimal structure that can support a weight and oppose horizontal forces of a chair. Tensegrity was the answer, it is a structural principle where there are isolated compressed components that are within a continuous tensioned network, such that the compressed members do not touch each other and are joined only by means of pulled components.

Project. For the physical fabrication process we used [6] stainless steel pipes cutted down to the exact measurements. Each pipe needs polishing, and holes drilled to loop the [33] wires through. All compression components in the tensegrity network had to be connected with all other components, at either end of their length. Although we knew the resultant length of all the wires required the necessary pre-tension, we cut the wires in their correspondent length and then we assemble all together manually.

Torcuato Di Tella University (Architecture Degree) 2nd Semester 2019 / Subject: Digital Tectonics / Teachers: Arturo de la Fuente / Students: Nicolás Boscoboinik, Nayla Cefarelli, Paula Cracco, Nicole Damm, Sofia Lorenzo.