Hybrid Furniture

 My initial sketch models started from looking at the idea of Precious. We had to study three words for about three weeks which I found quite hard to do seeing as I am English and know the full meaning of the words, so instead I tried to look at the words in a different way. Actually trying to figure out what they might mean in a sense that no one had ever really looked into them before. I took on the fact that coral is made up of tiny thousands of little pieces and is in fact precious. I also asked a lot of people I knew for their meaning on the word, and their memories were precious..how many memories did they have? Only a few, a lot or thousands too? I started to look at inhabiting a space that was made up of 'thousands of tiny little pieces' - perhaps you could inhabit this structure, or you could sit upon it, or within it. 

I then went onto looking at a collection of those same pieces, and how a collection might form a structure in a slightly different way. Would you necessarily know how each pieces were formed. Would you be able to see where you had to sit to do your work, or where your seat was for reading. We were supposed to be looking at actual measurements for comfort within the two actions, and where the lights were to be most appropriate for the actions, but I wasn't initially interested in this. I wanted to find out how you could form a structure with the same shape without necessarily knowing what it is - that proved to be very difficult! 

After many crits and many different ways of thinking, different session and chats with various different people, I decided to go along the lines of Rachel Whiteread, taking spaces and taking the negatives of those spaces. I some how wanted to use the positive and the negative to form my hybrid piece of furniture. Where abouts would the click? Where would they match so they could be used as one? I experiemented with positive and negative of different shapes and different objects in order to see what I could find.

Here I looked into books and a stack of different book shaped objects. Could you form and piece them together so the negative cast could be used for another function? 

I also began to look into the positive and negative of the same shape.

After various looks into various different shapes, I realised that by taking a cast of a positive space would actually give you a similar looking space and that was not what I needed. I needed the space to look nothing like the first, I wanted there to be a definition between the two. One of my actions was working, so I had to have a desk. To take a negative from a desk just looks like you have a desk. This is when I decided to take a negative of the form, of what the structure was actually made of. It was still to be made out of lots of the same shape, and then I could take a cast out of that. They would still lock together at one particular point because they were a positive and negative so were going to connect and then would become hybrid. 

The Photo above shows how the negative form can be taken and bend and moulded into a structure. The image below shows how the negative (black) space fits together with the positive (white space) which will in fact make my piece of furniture hybrid.