This is my final project for my Freshmen year Wintersession course, called "Where It Lives." It was a course in the Furniture Design department--the objective of the course was to design furnitures that integrates into the selected environment. I made this coffee rest in concrete to match the environment I have chosen, which is a small pathway between RISD Carr Haus and RISD Freshmen Building (the Waterman Building). Due to practical issues of transferring the piece to the location, I had put the coffee rest in the Market Place near the RISD Auditorium. The piece is in a way both sculptural and practical; I chose to use concrete to challenge myself with using new materials. I used various types of leaves to leave imprints to the coffee rest (the holes on the side of the rest) and added a tree branch to match the natural setting of the pathway.
At Market Place.
This is the original environment in which the coffee rest was going to be placed.
These images show the process of building the coffee rest, from building the mold to casting.
I added a foam block into the concrete so that it will alleviate the weight of the concrete piece.
