Measure twice, cut once

      For the second part of this project, we were allowed to cut the cardboard as much as we wanted, but still no glue or adhesives were to be used. Also important to note is that this chair was meant to be based off of our relationship with a particular individual we were to choose, which helped give us some direction and a foundation to start from. I chose my grandpa, but I think I should elaborate and talk about this choice more in a future post... But for now, back to the chair!
      After making a plethora of unsuccessful models, I finally settled on a design that I thought would work fairly well. Here is the cardstock model:

      Below is a picture of the cardstock model deconstructed. The chair had seven pieces running across (labelled 4,3,2,1,2,3,4) and had eight pieces in depth (labelled a-h).

       I then drew out a grid pattern (if I remember correctly, each square was 6"x6") on the giant 4'x8' cardboard corresponding in scale to the grid I drew on the much smaller cardstock model, so as to accurately transfer over the same scale despite the size difference.

       As you can see, I made maximum usage of space in this sheet of cardboard! (Though it turns out I STILL didn't have enough, and had to rummage through the basement to find cardboard large enough- I stumbled across a box that once housed a dishwasher.)

Then I cut out all the pieces. As you can see, it made a bit of a mess... 

      Once the pieces were all cut out into their proper shapes, I then had to measure and cut out all the slits with an X-acto knife, but unlike the paper model, I found out that I had to account for the thickness of the material; so each slit had to be the thickness of a sheet of cardboard. 

 And here it is in the beginning stages of its construction:

 More photos next time!