Week 6 Blog Exercise - Design Success and Failure in Relation to Syntactical Guidelines

Here is one of the chairs shown from our lecture last week. The lecture was conducted by our substitute Professor Hsaio-Yun Chu. The chair appears out of balance. It lacks a solid place for ones behind to rest properly onto its surface. In that regard, it fails as a chair. The way it hangs out so far from the base places stress on its form. The chair called, "Empty Chair" while an intriguing exercise on the use of positive and negative space, does not seem very functional as a chair.




The successful example shown in class was this chair. It's egg-like form has a nurturing allure. Where the other chair only played with positive and negative space, this chair successfully executes the concept smoothly and with grace. The sitting surface dips into its core allowing for the person sitting in the chair to become level to its center. This is an interactive leveling experience that visually invites one to sit on this comfortable looking object.