Architecture office Carlo Ratti Associati used digital processes to produce this collapsible wooden stool that can be adjusted into different predetermined shapes.

The Swift stool was shown at Cassina's 90th anniversary exhibition, Cassina 9.0, at Milan design week. It demonstrates a design approach that the architecture office ? which is led by Italian architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti ? calls "implicit programming".

The approach sees the team use digital design and fabrication methods to tailor an object so it can take different preset forms.

In the case of the Swift stool, this is enabled through an elaborate system of individually designed joints and hinges that allow the stool to snap into its various positions.

The 27 rounded wood elements of the chair can sit in a flat, comb-like shape against the wall, and then be flipped around to form a seat with various leg configurations.
Carlo Ratti Associati describes the product as a kind of "programmable wood".

Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/04/20/carlo-ratti-experiments-programmable-wood-make-swish-stool-cassina-milan-design-week-furniture/

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