Plant Hangar
Project Type
Product Design/Photography
CNC/ Laser Cut/ Woodworking
This project was based around the broad concept to make something physical using the fab lab.
I decided to make a plant hangar because I wanted to use the wood shop we had on campus.
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I was in the woodshop for over 6 hours a day for basically the whole semester.
Ideation
I took some time to research what other typical plant hangars looked like with the intention to make this out of wood. I wanted to work on my wood working skills along with the tactile, problem solving that comes with bringing a product to life and having pieces fit and function together.
development
After choosing a direction, I started focusing on proportions and how I wanted every measurement of the hangar to be. Then I started collecting materials, sketching out pieces based on proportion, and altering them to fit the hangar design.
Production
I used illustrator to make pdf's for a program to read to send to a CNC machine that cut out the bowls to the right size and width. I hade four panels that I put together incase there were any problems with the first round which there were, causing the first round to be unusable. I spent a lot of time in the wood shop cutting pieces to shape, sanding, and gluing things together.
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After getting all the pieces together, buying the hardware that was accustom to its use, and drilling the holes I sealed them with lacquer, and finally put the hangar together.
Product Photography
The final part of the project was taking photography
