PROBLEM 

WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I MAKE? HOW CAN THIS BE SOLVED?

Small apartment? Cluttered dorm room? Not a lot of space?

YOU need a good night sleep

And you need room to explore your hobbies (physically, mental)

BUT... you do not have enough room for both

Proposal: What if I can make a folding bed that could go from point A to point B easily and efficiently. Let's just say you do yoga, you also need your sleep. Your bed can easily roll up into a chair giving you room to do yoga. The bed would be comfy, easily rollable, and save room in your apartment.

Birdseye

Side view

DESIGN CRITERIA

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1. Must turn into chair
2. Must make space
3. Must be ecofreindly
4. Must be easy to use
5. Must be comfy

STORYBOARD

Motion Diagram

Precedent

This is a bed that can come down from the ceiling and then go up back into the ceiling when you're done with it

This bed can turn into something like a cabinet, it's good for storage and help clutter

PROS

• Easy to make
• easy to fold
• simple 

CONS

• Not 3D enough
• hard to stay in roll

PROTOTYPE #1

PROTOTYPE 1.5

SKETCH #2

I decided to go back to the drawing board at this point in time and decided instead of making a rolling mechanism to try to make a folding mechanism

Prototype 2

Pros

• Looks more like a chair 
• Easier to use 

Cons 

• Messed up first laser cut 
• Rubber band hinges = not rellient

PROTOTYPE 2

Once again.... I change my idea, instead of folding up now my new design will fold down to make the chair sturdier

PROTOTYPE #3

PROTOTYPE #3

1- Bed form

2- The second base folds up with the second core part 

3- now the new piece is pushed down making a leg for the chair

Rhino

Unfortunately, I was unable to print my final laser-cut, although I had it all done Rhino so I made sure to screenshot that file

CORE 1

CORE 2

BASE 1

BASE 2

This was made so that the core could only move the way I wanted it to move

I would make two of each of these and then the things that were unlabeled would be where the mattress would set

FINAL SKETCHES 

FINAL VIDEO + PICS

WHAT I LEARNED...

• I tend to move on and not finish my work

• Making your own mechanism is hard