HD·FI·01 Basic
Foundations of Furniture Design
Objects built to hold the human body, day after day.
Furniture design sits at the intersection of structure, ergonomics, and daily use. This course introduces the discipline's core concerns, load-bearing structure, sitting and resting postures, and the durability demands of repeated use over years, not just a single session.
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
- 01 Explain the core structural, ergonomic, and durability concerns of furniture design
- 02 Distinguish furniture design from general product design
- 03 Identify the main furniture typologies and their distinct design demands
- 04 Evaluate an existing furniture piece for structural and ergonomic soundness
- 05 Describe the furniture design process from concept to production
- Repeated daily use over years is furniture's defining constraint
- Structural failure in furniture has direct physical safety consequences
- Seating, storage, and surface furniture are not interchangeable design problems
- Typology should be identified early, as it shapes the whole design process
- Load path is a structural question, not a styling one
- Structural failure often traces back to an unresolved load path, not weak materials alone
- This overview previews the specialization's full course sequence
- Each later course covers one stage of this process in depth
- Evaluate structure and ergonomics as a pair, not separately
- Visual resolution does not guarantee structural or ergonomic soundness