Design Beyond Intention examines how the conditions and parameters for designing for serial production can be applied in practice. The focus is less on formulating a complete design approach and more on validating the feasibility of such an approach, using aluminum extrusion as a manufacturing process and the resulting design of the Sori Bench as a concrete case study. The project thus takes a practical approach to the question of which design decisions made early in the design process may influence construction, manufacturing, and serial production. At the same time, it reveals the limitations of this approach, as its implementation involves a high degree of complexity, additional coordination efforts, and numerous technical and design dependencies.
Accordingly, Design Beyond Intention should be understood as an experimental framework for evaluating and applying production-related requirements, material and manufacturing choices, as well as questions of optimization, transport, assembly, scaling, and reproducibility within the design process. In this context, the Sori Bench forms the project’s central outcome, a seating concept developed from a single custom aluminum extrusion. The profile geometry, integrated T-slots, and disassemblable construction unite formal, structural, and production-related considerations in one object.
Prozess
Supervised by: Prof. Ian Ferguson, Prof. Holger Neumann, M.A. Julian Ribler
