Jan 2024-March 2024
Working and relaxing on the floor comes naturally. However oftentimes these benefits are outweighed by the poor ergonomics of floor seating. The kneeling seat supports your body in a natural, upright posture, allowing for better focus and free-flowing ideas without the discomfort traditionally associated with floor seating.
Feel free to download and take a look at the design book which highlights the process of coming up with the kneeling seat and making it into a reality.
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The final product consists of several layers of laser cut cork sandwiched together by ply wood boards. The wooden boards provide structure while the cork layers are soft and cushion the knees.
The entire assembly does not use any fasteners.
Instead, four long wood dowels span the entire length of the stack to fix the layers in place.
The stack is then tied together using laces. When tightened the laces compress the cork layers together and the structure becomes very strong due to friction between the cork layers. These laces are tensioned using a turnbuckle hidden beneath the seat.
Even the seat is fastener-free and instead uses a rope binding to pull the seat down onto the seat post. The seat has a cut out which matches the profile of the seat post.
