REDESIGN
Every semester, the students are given the task of redesigning a common object. This year, it was a bench. The reason we were assigned to make a bench is because our innovation center has two large windows allowing anyone in the hallway to see into the room, and our teacher thought it would be nice to put a bench there for people to sit down and watch those in the innovation center work with the machinery. Everyone in the class made their own bench, and at the end of the semester we held a vote to decide whose bench would be created and placed outside the innovation center windows.
Parametric Benches
The way I decided to design my bench was similar to a parametric bench. It's a modernized design that takes many 'slices' of material and connects them using one or multiple splines down the center or otherwise key points of the piece. Examples of parametric benches are shown below.