The Washington University in Saint Louis M.Arch III program begins with a 3 week pre-semester orientation course aimed at introducing students to the facilities, shops, software, and design fundamentals. The final project for this course was to design a stool of poplar hardwood not to exceed 18″ x 18″ x 20″ in size.
The first steps of this project therefore involved the production of several concept models, visible here.
Those in the first set were to be made of planes.
Those in the second set were to be made of sticks.
Those in the final set were unrestricted in their form and composition.
It is from these prototypes that a final design was modeled in rhino and produced at full scale in the woodshops here at the Sam Fox School. In my case, the third stick concept would eventually become the final stool, “Stool-R”, featured in my next post.
Myles Richter Design 
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