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Interwoven Seat A Study on Joint, Body, and Interaction


2020 | Hong Kong, China
Academic | Group Design | CUHK
Furniture, Wood Craftsman

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ConceptIn architectural education, furniture and architecture are often treated as separate disciplines.
Interwoven Seat seeks to reconnect the two — using craftsmanship as a medium to explore the relationship between the body, the joint, and the space.

Starting from the study of traditional wood joinery, the project investigates how different joint types can adapt to various loading conditions and spatial needs.
A multifunctional seat was constructed in the atrium of a teaching building —
a hybrid object that blurs the boundary between furniture and architecture,
encouraging informal encounters and collective interaction among users.

Process & CollaborationThe seat employs diverse joinery techniques to balance flexibility and stability.
Each joint was designed according to its structural stress and ergonomic use, forming a responsive and evolving system.

Through the act of making and the experience of sitting,
the human body becomes part of the structure,
transforming the static object into a living spatial dialogue between material and movement.

ReflectionInterwoven Seat is both a furniture prototype and a pedagogical experiment —
a study of how bodily perception can inform design logic.
It proposes a new understanding of “structure” not as a constraint,
but as a language of relation between the human and the built environment.

“A structure is never static;
it begins to move the moment a body touches it.”