The document provides a design brief for a "Sit+Store" furniture piece that combines seating and storage. It must be creative, flexible, simple to construct, and placed inside a home or work environment. The project involves three phases - design concept, development, and presentation. The design concept phase includes sketching, modeling, and describing initial ideas. Design development shows technical drawings, animation, and written evaluations. The final presentation features a completed design solution through slides, audio, and video with written description and evaluation.

1. SIT + STORE
INTERIOR DESIGN INSTITUTE
COURSE : COMMUNICATION 3 : DIGITAL SKILLS 2
TUTOR : LORENZO BERETTA
BY JAVARIA SALEEM

2. DESIGN BRIEF : In this project you are asked to generate a design for a ‘Sit+Store’, a unique element of free-
standing furniture which combines both the opportunity to sit or rest whilst providing storage for items such as
books and other home/work media. The item would be placed in an inside an existing space within the home or
work environment. Successful solutions will be creative, flexible and simple to construct – it may be a kit, flat-
packed or modular to enable customisation and adaptability. You will be required to keep an online blog to
communicate the journey of your project, right from the beginning of your process, through research, design,
development and final outcome.

3. Project Phases
• Design Concept
• Design Development
• Design Presentation

4. Breakdown of Project Phases
Design Concept
• Communication of initial ideas through sketching, model-making and imagery
• Written description and evaluation of initial ideas
Design Development
• Presentation of design work using technical drawings, animation and gifs
• Written description and evaluation of work
Design Presentation
• Completed design solution presented through slide shows, audio and video
• Written description and evaluation of design solution

5. To access my blog, please click here

6. DESIGN CONCEPT

7. Collage
An initial collage which combines ideas of
materials, structures, colours and function

8. SKETCHING
ROUGH SKETCHES DETAILED SKETCHES

9. Concept Models
Multiple model arrangements with shadow
experiments, inspired by concept

10. DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

11. TECHNICAL DRAWINGS
PLAN ELEVATIONS

12. 3D MODEL

14. DESIGN OUTCOME

15. Materials
Include White Cedar, Teakwood, Jute and fabric

16. Construction &
Assembly
The simple assembly procedure explained.
Dowel and Cam joint fasteners using wooden
pegs, bolts and screws.
Image: tools4inventor, (2010), Furniture
fasteners definition [ONLINE]. Available
at: http://help.tools4inventor.com/manual/woo
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lt/furnitros_istatymas_baldo_kons.htm [Accesse
d 15 May 2017].

17. Construction &
Assembly
The simple assembly procedure explained.
Hinged brackets with hook for swing ropes.
Swing hinge Swing hinge
Hook for rope

18. DESIGN PROCESS

19. DESIGN STORY

20. DESIGN OUTCOME