ChaiseLounge, one of the winning projects of Autoprogettazione 2.0, was exhibited in 2012 at Palazzo Clerici during Milan Design Week 2012.

The competition, sponsored by Domus magazine, aimed to select projects suitable to be played with cnc technologies typically present in FabLabs. ChaiseLounge was in fact designed to be milled or laser-cut from a single sheet of plywood. Its design combines a base of interlocking components in a rigid and robust structure with a hanging “membrane of wood.” To obtain it, a series of triangular elements were connected by wiring with simple clamps to form a three-dimensional catenary mesh, for an unexpected ergonomy.

The project, initially developed at FabLab Torino, is currently in open source and has been reproduced in Aalto Fablab for Helsinki World Design Capital 2012. In 2014, chaiseLounge was incorporated into the permanent collection of Centre National des Art Plastiques, in Paris.

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