Cardboard furniture project

For our cardboard furniture project, we are creating a dresser with 2 drawers and a flat top that has many uses. We Started by making a scaled down model of the dresser, this took only a day so we were able to move onto the actual construction quickly. The construction has consisted of cutting lots of pieces of cardboard into precise sizes and gluing them together with a water based glue. Once we completed this, we moved on to putting the pieces together. To do this we used caulking glue. We designed the handles in the software "autodesk 360 fusion". We used a system of two screws on the inside and a handle on the outside that screwed onto them.

we started off by coming up with the correct measurements and cutting a large number of rectangles which would make up the core structure of the drawers.

We then proceeded to glue all of the pieces that we cut together to make the structure.

We made the drawers after the structure was complete. One challenge we encountered was that we had no way to keep the drawers from falling out. To solve this we made treads on the bottom of both the drawer and the structure.

After the drawers and structures were in place, we thought of ways that we could improve the project, our first idea was to add handles onto the drawers.

An idea that we toyed with was 3D printing handles with "Autodesk 360 Fusion" and "makerbot" We printed many variations of the handle but never reached a design that we found satisfactory. We eventually decided that the desks were better off with no handles.

Our final product, sitting inside of the gallery, with our Ukulele project on top of it.