First Long Image

A bamboo stool made solely from combs and strips

Second Long Image

A Royal College of Art Design Challenge: to make a functional stool from any one tool and single material (and nothing else)... By employing fundamental structural laws, a suprisingly strong stool can be made using 150 bamboo strips and 15 bamboo combs. The simplified iterative process is visualised above.

The Design:

An interactive 3D model of the stool ↑

Tension truss design image