CALIPH SEAT FOR MOSQUE

                   Assalamua'alaikum and good to see all of you in my design blog. in this blog, i would like to share with all of you about my seater project whereby it will be my first furniture project and it will make me more understand regarding on the process of making furniture design which i never had the experience before. Before I start explaining more in depth regarding on my seater design, let me give a little bit briefing on this project by starting with the objective of the project. 
                  In this seater project, I would like to design a seater whereby can be use inside or within mosque environment which based on my observation there have no special or specific seater that can be used inside mosque for religion purposes such as seater for prayer, reading Al-Quran or while conducting an Islamic lecture. Beside designing the seater itself, I also have to think how to make the seater design such a wonderful design parallel to its position which will been located inside the sacred place. Below are my design statement on this seater project:

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY: WONDERFUL DESIGN
DESIGN THEME            : MALAY WOODCARVING MOTIF +
                                                                   ISLAMIC ARABESQUE PATTERN
DESIGN CONCEPT       : FLOOR SEATER 
DESIGN CRITERIA          : MODULAR- Can be rearrange at any   
                                             place  
                                          : LIGHTWEIGHT- 80% of the design  
                                            using Pine wood  
                                            ATTRACTIVE - 20% of the  
                                            ornamentation of
                                            Malay woodcarving motif + Islamic   
                                            Arabesque Pattern will using laser 
                                            cutting machine on acrylic.  
PROBLEM STATEMENT : there have no specific seater inside  
                                                the mosque environment that can be 
                                                part of the religion activity such as 
                                                for prayer, reading Al-Quran or  
                                                Islamic lecture that suitable to this 
                                                sacred place. 
                                                                        The existing seater design that have    
                                                been used inside the mosque 
                                                environment nowadays are took from 
                                                typical normal chair.  
DESIGN CONSIDERATION: Study on the ergonomic factor to 
                                                   see the correct body posture while 
                                                   sit on the seater.
                                                   Observe on how the user react 
                                                   toward the existing seater design 
                                                   inside the mosque.
                                                   Observe toward the similar seater 
                                                   design for improvise purposes.
                                                   Understanding the Malay culture, 
                                                   Aesthetic and functionality of the 
                                                   product. 


                      In order to make this seater become wonderful, I've decided to combined the Malay famous woodcarving motif, Awan Larat together with Islamic Arabesque pattern into it in order to embrace it position suitable within mosque environment. As a Muslim practitioner and also Malay people, I try to combine these two element of design into my seater design so it become balance and attractive. Below are my previous study on the element of Malay woodcarving motif and Islamic Arabesque pattern that will become my masterpiece of this seater project.  

STUDY ON MALAY FAMOUS WOODCARVING MOTIF- AWAN LARAT

NAME OF MOTIF: SOROK PUNCA

NAME OF MOTIF: AWAN LARAT BERIBU

NAME OF MOTIF: AWAN LARAT MATAHARI

STUDY ON ISLAMIC ARABESQUE PATTERN

 UNDERSTANDING ON VARIOUS SEATING POSITION
 

                  The objective the designers make a study on various types of seating position is to identified the best seating position that would be apply by the user when they sit on the seater. Other than that, the designer try to understand the Malay cross-legged siting position which sinonim with Malay people. By studying these sitting position will give a clear view on the area that the designer have to tackle when designing the cushion or supporter on top of the seater so it can cover the whole area of the buttock and give the comfortable seating position to the user.  



DESIGNING PROCESS

                      In the early stage of designing process, the designer has practiced the basic manual hand sketches in order to get the rough idea of the seater design. in this process, the designer had come out with several idea whereby later it will go through the process of design selection to reach at the final idea of the seater design. Below are the several idea of design concept and design proposal.

THE PROCESS OF MAKING MOCK UP

                     Before the process of fabrication of final seater design, it is very important to the designers to visualize the final design from the process of idea development by doing a full scale or down scale mock up in order to avoid from any unpredictable error when reach at the manufacturing process. This mock up process will give the whole idea of the seater design which the designer could see any weird or any defect to the final design. At this stage, the designer still have time to change the final design to be more practical, proportion and more wonderful. Below are the several Mock up which have different design and concept....

TECHNICAL DRAWING

                    After  the designer has made a decision on the particular final design truth the mock up evaluation in term of the design criteria, he have to come out with full scale technical drawing based on the final selection through mock up design. This action is very important to determine whether his design have reach at the point of wonderful desing or not.....

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