Soft Body Stool
A stool, digitally dropped and deformed, then physically solidified.
Description:
Details:
Recent years have seen an explosion in the popularity of visually stimulating online videos. From hydraulic press experiments, to slow motion water balloons and popping pimples, we have a new shared fetish; digital tactility. Soft Body Stool is a small, loose, furniture project, taking this digital material reality into the physical realm. A digital cushion is dropped in physics simulation software onto a set of steel legs, warping and deforming around them as it collides. A moment towards the end of the drop is frozen in time and then physically cast in polyurethane resin; a material normally considered as low-grade, re-purposed as precious. Through the often-overlooked process of rotational casting, the stool can be easily reproduced and kept to just two pieces; a smooth, hollow, rigid body and the legs; naturally locking together with no mechanical fixings.
By:
John Cruwys & David Flook
Project Type:
Personal Project
Status:
Complete
Year:
2018
Materials:
Polyurethane Resin
Steel