rethinking design - Spatial Design@Massey

Image 4: Plaited Fence, Martin AzuaImage 5: Cosy Chair, SMAQIn response to green design, Martin Azua creates a plaited fence, which relates to the plasticbag problem. SMAQʼs cosy chair. Is made from stainless steel and argues that, “heat is onlynecessary when it is actually used … the Cosy chair is an inhabitable radiator space.”(Inhabitat, Milan).Image 6: Peter on Pooktre chairIn 1986, Peter and Becky harness the art of growing furniture, nine they had a well establishgarden of furniture in which they named Pooktre. In the years since then they havediscovered how to slowly create tables and chairs the way they wanted them to grow. Byrepeating these ideas many time although it take longer than you usual furniture to create,they manage to duplicate this to create a business for themselves.Image 7: Table in progress Image 8: in workshop Image 9: FinishedProductSelf-assembly, first on the list of the 12 ides of biology influencing the world of biomimeticdesign. Self-assembly is a term “used to describe processes in which a disordered system ofpre-existing components for an organized structure or patterns…without external direction.”(Wikipedia, self-assembly) For instance, imagine holding a box with puzzle pieces inside.When you were to shake the box, and then opened it up to look inside to find it is nowassembled puzzle. On a more personal level, humans cut or injure, themselves, all the time.As well as healing this could be considered, in some form, to be self-assembly. Our skin layerby layer reassembles in self back into an ordered molecular structure, making it strong anddurable again.