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THESIS: ATLAS OF THE HEARTLANDcritic: RANIA GHOSNdate: FALL 2013 - WINTER 2014site: JOHNSON COUNTY,IL

A FRACKED PICTURESQUEor THE IMAGEABILITY OF INDUSTRIAL WILDERNESS

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1. The Construction Of Experience

Park System At Work

2. The Great Conservationist:

Theadore Roosevelt

3. Great Smoky Mountain Streetview Selfie

4. Queue to Hike the Halfdome, Yosimite, CA

5. Meta-Tourism: An Ansel Adams Rabbithole

6. Federally Owned Land

Conservation & Infringement

7. National Park Characteristic Analysis

8. Yosimite Valley, Yosimite National Park, Ca + Flikr Data

9. Grand Teton National Park, Wy + Flikr Data

10. Great Smoky Mountains National Park + Flikr Data

The introduction of an ex-tractive volatile industry into land-scapes historically constructed assacred, picturesque or precious brings forth an opportunity to explore the imageability of indus-trial wilderness. This thesis projects an architec-ture that functions as a machine for the specta-cle in a future where the National Forest and the fracking industry co-habit through the merger of the infrastructure of the existing park system and that of hydraulic fracturing within the Shawnee National Forest in Johnson County, Illinois. The Forest is an interesting geographical precedent due to the recent national legalization of mining fossil fuels in federally owned land, an act that results in the potential infringement on more nationally treasured parkssuch as the Grand Tetons or Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Located in the rural southern half of Illi-nois, Johnson County is one of five counties cov-ered by the Shawnee National Forest that are currently targeted by the hydraulic fracturing industry. The extractive industry puts at risk the county’s tourist economy, associated with the Forest’s various parks, trails, and waterways. The perceived incompatibility of the fracking industry’s externalities and the verdant, pris-tine qualities of the current landscape has led to contention, with Johnson County leading a legal battle with the state of Illinois to ban theindustry from taking hold in the region, a battle in which they have now been officially defeated.

“A Fracked Picturesque” operates mid-way through the industry’s 50 year projected inhabitation of the land, 25 years after the ap-pearance of the first well on the landscape. At that point, the externalities of this inhabitation have manifested in the picturesque landscape of the Forest, creating multiple speculative situations or occurrences. From the vacation cabins on the Burning Lake to the crater left behind by the well explosion of 2028, the archi-tectures deployed act as apparatuses for the production of the spectacle associated with the national park system; architectures that miti-gate, disguise, or idealize externalities through careful construction of their imageability.

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The Hydraulic fracturing industry is an in-dustry dedicated to the extraction of natural gas fromshale basins deep below the surface through the technique of horizontal drilling. In JohnsonCounty, the particular shale of interest is the New Albany shale, a shale play within the IllinoisBasin. The fracking process is as follows: A site is cleared and leveled, where a well is thendrilled to the level of the shale, and turned hori-zontally. High powered explosives are then placedin the shale, the explosions from which frac-ture the rock. High volumes of water are thenpumped into the earth to fracture the rock to its limits, allowing gas to be released from the shale.A wellhead is then placed at the well's open-ing, and gas is collected over te next 50 years.

Though hydraulic fracturing, or "frack-ing", and horizontal drilling have both existed forover fifty years, they were combined for the first time in the early 2000s by Halliburton. Underthe Bush administration, fracking was given spe-cial treatment in the Energy Policy Act of 2005,relieving the industry of federal oversight. The re-sult of this has been both the rapid proliferationof this new extractive industry, as well as wide-spread externalities due to the looseness of theregulations surrounding its use. From the rise in earthquakes in the areas surrounding the Barnettshale in Texas, to the air quality in western North Dakota's Bakken shale, to the widespreadcontamination of water supplies throughout the Appalachian's Marcellus shale, not to mentionthe various industrial accidents that already dot fracking's young timeline, the fracking industrymarks its territory with an authoritative hand. Through this investigation, the project derivesthree scenarios from the industry's drosscape in which to operate: a site of large-scale watercontamination, at site of an accident or malfunc-tion, and at the site of the frack itself, as a meansof deployment across the landscape as a whole.

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THE PICTURESQUE HA-HA FENCE

The three architectural investigations that this

thesis proposes are interventions for the park system that

react to the externalities of fracking associat-

ed with the given scenario, through the lens of the

picturesque readings of the park system. The ar-

chitectures seeks to become an apparatus for the

image production associated with the park sys-

tem, with the park's visitor becoming Benjamin's

flaneur, casually perusing the forest, drawn to the spec-

tacular images produced by its fantastic scenarios.

PICTURESQUE is defined here as it re-

lates to our conception of our national parks. The

picturesque is our idea of an ideal or perfect land-

scape, a vision of the landscape as we believe it

should be rather than the way that it is. This leads

to the picturesque as a thing that often hides or

masks confrontation under the guise of tranquil-

ity. A tool of this construction is the picturesque

HA-HA, a device used in English gardens where

a trench was dug and a fence built without

obstructing the views from certain vantage

points. The surprise upon the discovery of this

deception is where the fence draws its name. It

represents the moment at which the spell of the

picturesque image is broken, the illusion of a per-

fect scene revealed to be a construction. The

following iterations seek to make this reveal op-

erational. It is in these two modes, the ideal and

its reveal, that the architectures operate: pro-

viding the illusion that the flaneur craves, while

simultaneously revealing itself as a construct-

ed experience, always keeping present the

awareness of the externalities being addressed.

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THE LAKE CABINTHE SPECTACLE OF A LAKE OF FIRE

The Lake of Egypt, forming the northern border of Johnson Coun-ty, IL, is a popular vacation spot in theforest, with timeshares and vacation homes crowding its shores. This iteration envisions apossible scenario in which this water source is contaminated to the point of flammability, acommon occurrence today in the regions of the Marcellus shale. The lake cabin attempts tomaintain the lakes status as a vacation destina-tion by turning the water's potential flammabilityinto a tourist attraction, making a spectacle of the lake's contamination through the operations ofthe architecture. Existing boldly in the desolate space between the lake and what is now the newedge of the forest, after being burned back, the lake house embodies the notion to see, and to beseen. Cantilevering out precariously over the burning lake, the house responds to threeviewpoints, and the circulation between them: The Horizon, The Context, and the HA-HA. Thehorizon embodies the notion of the ideal scene, with the lake as just the forefront to a largerscene, while the forest begins to alert the user that not all is what it seems. Finally, the reveal atthe base of the cantilever com-pletes the deconstruction of the im-age by revealing the lake for the choked, flammable externality that it has become.

WATER CONTAMINATION DEFORESTATION ECOLOGICAL INSTABILITYDROSSCAPEICONICISM/SPECTACLELAKE CABINS FLAMMABLE WATERWAYS COMMUNITY DIVISION

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THE LAKE HOUSE SEEKS TO OPERATE WITHIN THIS READING OF PICTURESQUE THROUGH THECONSTRUCTION OF VIEW PORTS THAT REVEAL MOMENTS OF TRANQUILITY AND CONFLICT THROUGH ITS ENGAGEMENT WITH FRACKING’S EXTERNALITIES AT THE SITE OF HIGH TENSION, OCCUPYING THE DESOLATE AND VOLATILE SPACE BETWEEN THE SHAWNEEFOREST AND THE LAKE’S FLAMMABLE WATER.

The picturesque as a vignette,

opens to multiplicity of view.

The pictuesque creates an il-

lusion of tranquility, a sense

of wholeness or completeness

when in reality, the image created is

only a fragment of a greater whole.

A still image flattens the layers of a

perspective. It is only through move-

ment that these layers can be ful-

ly examined, and the realities of a

scene can be fully comprehended.

Fragmentation requires movement

to fully comprehend totality, a “paral-

lax” of rhythmic sequential images.

Constructed, non-se-

quential image reading

has the ability to

tell us new stories or

engage existing conditions in unex-

pected combinations. The lake house

seeks to operate within this read-

ing of PICTURESQUE through the

construction of view ports that re-

veal moments of tranquility and

conflict through its engagement with

fracking’s externalities at the site of

high tension, occupying the desolate

and volatile space between the Shawnee

Forest and the lake’s flammable water.

CONSTRUCTED NON-SEQUENTIAL IMAGE READINGHAS THE ABILITY TO TELL US NEW STORIES ORENGAGE EXISTING CONDITIONS IN UNEXPECTED COMBINATIONSTHE LAKE HOUSE SEEKS TO OPERATE WITHIN THIS READING OF PICTURESQUE THROUGH THECONSTRUCTION OF VIEW PORTS THAT REVEAL MOMENTS OF TRANQUILITY AND CONFLICT THROUGH ITS ENGAGEMENT WITH FRACKING’S EXTERNALITIES AT THE SITE OF HIGH TENSION, OCCUPYING THE DESOLATE AND VOLATILE SPACE BETWEEN THE SHAWNEEFOREST AND THE LAKE’S FLAMMABLE WATER.

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LAKE OF EGYPT, JOHNSON COUNTY, IL

CABIN DEPLOYMENT ALONG THE CONTAMINATED, FLAMMABLE WATERFRONT

PINK CARBON FIBER EXTERIOR

ALUMINUM PANELING TO SEE, TO BE SEEN, TO SEE BEING SEEN, BEING SEEN SEEING BEING SEEN

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the OBSERVATION TOWER

The observation tower takes place at the site of every frack site across the county, and as such, itdoes the most work on the front of externali-ty remediation. The tower cleans both the air(through its fabric façade system) and water used during the frack (through internal specializedwater treatment housed within the structural bones of the original fracking derrick. As it housesthe water used at each particular site to be cleaned, it is scaled to the size of the frack, thusbecoming a diagram of the industry’s prolifera-tion once deployed across the landscape. As apublic entity within the park, the tower becomes a navigational waypoint amongst the park’sextensive hiking network, and an observation tower accessible at any point. The facade’sapertures frame specific views on the user’s as-cent, accenting the picturesque qualities of horizonand sky, while the descent reveals the site for the fracking field it has become, producing theiteration’s HA-HA reveal.

WATER CONTAMINATIONAIR POLLUTION DEFORESTATIONDROSSCAPEOBSERVATION TOWER HIKING TRAIL NETWORK SMOG-SCAPE EARTHQUAKES

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HA-HA MomentExplicit Reveal

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the VISITOR’S CENTERSHAWNEE NATIONAL FOREST

A staple to every nation-al park in the country, the visitor’s cen-ter for the Shawnee national forestis the central hub of activity in the forests new paradigm, a hub at the confluence of all activeinfrastructures within the county. After an explo-sion has rendered this particular site useless toboth the industry and the park, a site previous-ly thought exhausted. It becomes the site of thenew visitor’s center as a means of breathing life back into site. Like the cabin, it spectacularizesthe externality as a means of operation. Upon the approach to the center the entire building istucked away beneath the ground, with an un-assuming entrance. However, as one begins tocirculate through the building, the user begins to descend into, down, and around the large craterleft behind by the explosion, the exhibition ending at a glass elevator descending the full depth ofthe fracking site to a café at its base. The center becomes the ultimate embodiment of the HAHA,hiding its true nature until the user is fully en-grossed within the crater. At the same time, itnever reveals itself all at once, its fragmented views being pieced together through carefulexploration. Its qualities are the most experien-tial of the iterations, guiding the user along theentire fracking process to the extreme of occu-pying the subterranean void created through theextraction process.

COMMUNITY DIVISIONEXPLOSIONS/SITE FAILURE ECOLOGICAL DISRUPTIONDROSSCAPEVISITOR’S CENTER PROCESSIONAL / SCRIPTED CRATER-SCAPE EARTHQUAKES

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the NEW SIHUI IDEA GARDENHIGH TECH INCUBATER + COLLABORATIVE DISTRICT

OPTIONS STUDIO: GLOBAL DESIGN STUDIO, CHINA PERSPECTIVEScritic: LARS GRAEBNERteam: LUCAS BARTOSIEWICZ, JASON ANDREdate: FALL 2013site: NEW SIHUI, GUANGZOU, CHINAselected for TCAUP STUDENT SHOW 2014

In 2004, the governing body of the Zhao-qing prefecture, declared the region to the east of SiHui as a High-Tech Industrial Zone, making this new development a key driver in the government's plan to expand the region's economic output by increasing its technolog-ical production. Previous to the government's declaration, the region currently under devel-opment (New SiHui) was primarily industri-al with standard manufacturing facilities fab-ricating products such as buttons and screws. As China globalizes, these standard man-ufacturing centers are being pushed to modern-ize their production. With this industrial modern-ization has come a modernization of business practices, with entrepreneurship becoming a growing trend in the nation's largest cities. As a part of one of these new developmental region, our site finds itself at a point of many intersec-tions and opportunities. As such, the design for the New SiHui Idea Gardens (NSIG) engages this burgeoning industrial landscape, creating a place for growth, ideas exchange, and col-laboration while maintaining the existing rural character of the site's verdant current context. The project promotes growth and inno-vation within the region by providing areas of dense proximity and adjacencies to larger in-dustrial facilities, creating opportunities for smaller companies and start-ups to establish and expand. Thus the title of the project takes on a double meaning, being not only place where business ideas are grown and nurtured, but also a lush, verdant atmosphere, physical-ly connecting the region's larger green zones.

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JINGGUANG RAIL LINE 65 km 1.0 hr

GUANGZHOU PORT 131 km 1.6 hr

ZHAOQING 60 km 1.1 hr

The old city of SiHui is a rural county-level city (popu-lation 80,000) nestled in the hills located about an hour’s drive northwest of the Guangdong province’s capital city of Guang-zhou. Guangzhou is part of the larger Pearl River Delta re-gion of southern China that contains the cities of Guangzhou and Foshan, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau. Guangzhou is situated at the confluence of the of the Pearl River Delta, as the Pearl river flows into the South China Sea. The flows of the Pearl River and its tributaries have defined the geography, ecology, and economics of the region for centuries. The development of New SiHui is tied directly to this waterway system, being located at the confluence of the Beijang and Sujijiang rivers, downstream from Old Si-Hui, which is built on the banks of the Sujijiang. Tying direct-ly to this system gives the new developmental region prime accessibility from the surrounding region. Current being roughly an hour away the center of the Delta’s transpor-tation network has given SiHui the opportunity to plug into the network more succinctly, with high-speed rail, and new highway systems currently under construction to support

the new zone and to link it to its parent city of Guangzhou.

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Since being named a High-tech Industrial

Zone in 2004, the new development zone

has transformed from a small farming

community on the outskirts of Old SiHui

into a thriving manufacturing region, out-

growing its initial zoning boundaries in

less than eight years. The site of our pro-

posal is situated on the westernmost edge

of this new zoned region, but as the de-

velopment is currently growing out of its

former boundaries, expanding along the

Sujiang River back west towards the old

city, our site holds a potentially key territo-

ry at the center of the expansion between

the old and new cities. The rapid expansion

of the new city around the site creates the

opportunity for new proximities to residen-

tial, industrial, and public spaces, making

it the lynchpin between current and fu-

ture developments, poised to be the cen-

ter of economic and social development

for the region. The (NSG) can potentially

act to complete an industrial corridor be-

tween Old SiHui and New SiHui, increas-

ing the land value and visibility of the site.

SITE

BUILDABLE : 245107 m²UNBUILDABLE: 102228 m²

TOTAL: 347335 m²29%

71%


TOTAL: 347335 m²29%

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TOTAL: 347335 m²29%

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One of the most important limitations to the

site’s developments is the series of power

lines that inhabit the site. The create 25-50m

wide no-build-zones, depending on their size

and voltage, which fragment the site into sev-

eral buildable entities. This fragmentation does

not prohibit development on the site, but does

greatly reduce the buildable area, as well as the

amount of residential units it is safe to have on

the site and the locations of their construction.

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In SiHui, eight years after the government subsidized High Tech Industrial zoning, the re-

gion has seen an industrial manufacturing boom that shows no sign of slowing. To this point

the lion’s share of the development has been instigated by large corporations which have

been successful in establishing a high tech savvy, innovative culture within China’s grow-

ing high-tech industry. The culture of high tech prominence and innovational approach-

es to the has the potential to attract smaller companies or start-ups to the region as has

been the case in many of China’s industrial centers. Tech start-ups and entrepreneurial

incubators are growing trend in Chinese business culture that has been gaining traction in

SALES

HOTEL

INCUBATOR ZONES

MANUFACTURING

the nation’s major urban centers, including Guangzhou, as seen in Guangzhou’s TIT Creative Park by Atelier cnS by or Jinan’s

IT Valley Incubator by Sweco. In 2013, Guangzhou is considered to be one of the fastest growing Chinese cities in terms of eco-

nomic production and opportunity, and its vast network of fabrication centers lend itself perfectly to the entrepreneurial minded.

The concept for our design maintains that it now possible to introduce an industrial site geared towards small-

er companies, into New SiHui, to encourage growth on and though the site from a small business start-up, through to a

large scale corporation or factory, capable of competing in this growing industrial market, all within the borders of the

site. Being also located within a zoned green buffer, it is our intention to merge the confluences of green and industri-

al zones through the incubator park concept. Thus the title of the project takes on a double meaning, being not only place

where business ideas are grown and nurtured, but also a lush green environment connecting the region’s larger green zones.

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PILOT PLANT

AUDITORIUM

HOTEL/ CONVENTION

FLEX INCUBATOR

OFFICE TOWER

MANUFACTURING

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WATER COLLECTION &NATURAL FILTRATION

TRADITIONAL MASONRY

MATERIAL PALLETTE: PLANNED ENTROPY

PERFORATED CORTEN STEEL CONCRETE

ARCHITECT-ING IN A MONSOON CLIMATEGiven that the site is industrial, and that one of the two existing canals on the site is stated to be

polluted to the point of being covered with a roadway, a large portion of the landscaping is dedicated

to the collection and remediation of storm water gathered on the site. Water is collected from the

buildings, roads, and plazas, and diverted into larger swales that feed into a large wetland area that

inhabits the interior of the site. The wetlands not only serve as a means of cleaning storm water

before its fed into the canal, but it also serves as a place of beauty and relaxation for the users of

the site. Occupying a large portion of the interior of the project, the wetlands are easily accessible

from all areas of the site, and are intersected by a system of paths and boardwalks to allow interac-

tion with the natural element.

Being located in a tropical, monsoon climate, the project’s material pallette was focused on

materials that could withstand the climate, and degrade in an aesthetically pleasing and didactic

manner.There is a history of building projects in this region that do not withstand the tropic climate,

rapidly conforming to the humidity’s insistant pressure. The planned entropy of the materials lends

itself not only to the industrial landscape in which the project is situated, but will also improve in

appearence over time.

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AUDITORIUM & CAFE

Centrally located within the site, and situated directly adjacent to the wetland park, the Auditorium is easily accessed

from all of the disparate enclaves and zones. This accessibility lends to a design that is publically shared by all entities

on the site, and a central hub of collaboration. The café / food court, and kitchens that support them occupy the ground

floor while the upper floor/roofscape functions as a ramp down from one of the main green connector circulation strips.

Hovering above the café and accessible from the roof/ ramp as well as from elevator shafts from the ground plane is the

auditorium, which has the capability of seating 800 people. The void in the center of the ground floor created by the wrap-

ping ramp is designed to be utilized as a public seating area

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USAFA CADET CHAPELSkidmore, Owings, and Merrill [1962]Colorado Springs, CO, USA

USAFA CADET CHAPELSkidmore, Owings, Merril [1962]Colorado Springs, CO

SUBSTITUTIONDESIGN THROUGH

The work of 19th century French architect Jean Nicolas Louis

was visionary, utilizing simple modular elements that anticipat-

ed the modern industrialization of building components. These

modular designs were best represented in the elevations he

drew for Paris’ forthcoming metropolitan stations with efficien-

cy convenience and economy at the forefront of his design pro-

cess. The advent of BIM modeling, and the regulatory component

based design the it portends, has take the concept of modulated

building components to levels beyond the industrial revolution.

Assigned a random Durand elevation, what results could BIM

substitution produce as a design instigator? Starting with the

elevation as a base point, a plan and section were determined

based on the modules it insinuated. This resulting combina-

tion of imagined plan, section, and elevation produced a build-

ing that was then analyzed and harvested for its components.

The resulting component set was then modernized and styl-

ized over a series of plug-and-play operations that result-

ed in its final scheme that is unrecognizable at first glance

from its Durandian ancestor, but carries with it Durand’s log-

Wic, rhythms, and proportions of the original façade elevation.

arch 516: REPRESENTATIONcritic: MALCOLM McCOLLOUGH

individual FALL 2011site: none

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LEPIDOPTERA

Christian Newman(2013)

Cocooning it’s light-source under a dense layering of traditional Japanese paper, the Lepido Lamp provides ambient mood setting light while perched nimbly on its frame of steel wire. While inactive, the Lepido Lamp appears a clean white, revealing its warmth and complexi-ty upon activation, conjuring the warm memories of youthful summer nights.

ENVIRONMENT: indoorSTRUCTURE: wire-formed welding rodSHADE: Japanese lantern paper + paper macheVOLTAGE: 120 vSWITCHING: ON/OFF switch activated on cordSUPPLY: electrical cable with plugCORD LENGTH: 4.5 feetWEIGHT: 1.2 lbs

MANUFACTURED IN THE USA

LEPIDOPTERA

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CHIMERAThe ikebana vase is the traditional Japa-nese art of flower display and arrange-ment. Designs traditionally combine disjunctive materials into a cohesive whole, chaos into harmony. This design incorporates three materials: aluminum, Brazilian walnut, and the plant life it displays. The aluminum wraps around the whole, attempting to constrain both the wood and plant life. The plants break con-tainment, mirroring natural overgrowth.

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3.6”

Christian Newman(2013)

ENVIRONMENT: indoorVASE TYPE: IKEBANAMATERIALS: BRUSHED ALUMINUM BRAZILIAN WALNUT [IPE]WEIGHT: 2.1 oz

MANUFACTURED IN THE USA

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SIDEWINDERTHE

Designed for small spaces such as apartments or dorm rooms, the Sidewinder aspires

to embody multiple functionalities within one simple form. The Sidewinder changes func-

tionality through rotation, interchanging between a chair, and endtable or an organizer de-

pending on its orientation. It’s multiplicity lends itself to users with limited space or budget

who’s needs may require a piece of furniture that can transition as the space is fully realized.

Routed by CNC from from birchwood plywood sheets, the 19” object utiliz-

es two contoured units that alternate to produce its form.the contours are support-

ed by 5x 3/8” steel rods that are subsequently capped on the ends to give the illu-

sion of a monolithic form. The rudimentry fabrication technique was designed to

keep costs affordable, with the idea that they could theoretically be mass produced.

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THREADED ROD + NUTS (2)

WOOD GLUE

ROUTED END CAP A

ROUTED CONTOUR B

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A CHAIR FOR TWO!

ASSEMBLY

GET ORGANIZED! HIDE AN UGLY LAMP!

CHAIR MODE

8180

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