Week 9
1. Designing a tensegrity desk For this week, we are making something big with plywood, and I decided to make a tensegrity desk just to really understand the physics of it as it has always confused me and is not intuitive. By looking at common tensegrity desk designs, I decided to base my design off this “VIVO Anti-Gravity 12 inch Tabletop” (which is available on Amazon and is $39.99). By just designing new shapes for the arms and the two boards, I should be able to maintain the structure of it while creating something interesting. The arms look like actual, muscular arms to me, and it kind of look like the two arms in Genesis. This further inspired me to make the top board like a cloud and the bottom one like a mountaing, and I envision the two arms sticking out from the cloud and the mountain. I arranged multiple images in powerpoint to create a reference image, and imported it into Fusion as a canvas to sketch my designs on it. The reference images ...