In the first year of architecture school, Carnegie Mellon students learn to use the woodshop through a series of workshops and projects. This is my second semester woodshop project.
During this project, we learned about the importance of precision in shop drawings, and how to effectively create them in order to use the least amount of wood.
The program for the project had a few constraints: the table had to be 20" tall, and limited to 8 board feet of 2" thick poplar hardwood. Our project also had to embody either "sticks," "stacks," or "planes." I chose stacking, and therefore used a single module to create an intricitely stacked "kit-of parts." The module has a series of holes cut through it, where dowels can be placed in order to build up a table with no glue, and in many different ways.
Plan view of my final project
This is a double module : both peices are the same, stuck together with dowels in the final.
The final integrated double modules and single modules.
I tested multiple possibilities for joints, in this drawing I have presented a notching system, but I eliminated it since it would be much harder to keep the integretity of the module.
