Esquisse One_ Triangulation

For our furniture design assignment, we were asked to construct a five sided pyramid using only balsa wood and 1 mm wire. It was quite an interesting task since I have not used balsa wood in my model makings before. Therefore a few trials were needed to get a feel of the material.

I began with some sketches to get me started thinking about the form and the way the jointing were to hold the pyramid together, without the use of any other adhesives. Here is some of my sketches.

I decided then, to make my four triangular sides out of balsa wood and join it with the wire. I choose to do it this way because I was thinking it would be easier to make the pyramid size more accurate. Therefore, here are some pictures to show my final esquisse work.

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