Students Coco Wallace, Sarah Dillinder, Mark Schleifer, Conor Melbourne Project Description Our project is a foldable dining room table that is transportable through narrow hallways/stairwells within a city apartment, like…
Coco Wallace, Sarah Dillinder, Mark Schleifer, Conor Melbourne
Project Description
Our project is a foldable dining room table that is transportable through narrow hallways/stairwells within a city apartment, like San Francisco or New York City. The project is designed as a prototype for people moving into these cities or even apartments in Princeton.
The planning stages of our project came about from the difficulty of moving furniture into both the dorms at Princeton and most recently an apartment this year. A large dining room table that is easily transportable is a great way to address narrow spaces. Our original planning involved creating a sketch on an iPad with the exact dimensions of the wood and hinges required to fold a 4X8 piece of plywood into 4 pieces. From here we created a CAD file for Landon and Luis mapping out the exact size and dimensions of the pieces required to create the table. All of this wood comes from a handful of 4X8 pieces of plywood so that the wood comprising the table was uniform in color. From here Landon and Luis graciously used the woodcutter to create the pieces required. We then pre stained the wood, let it dry for an hour and stained each piece of wood with two layers of wood stain/finisher to seal the wood and create an aesthetic look. We proceeded to attach the support pieces to the table tops with a power drill via L-brackets. We finished by connecting the 4 separate pieces that comprised the table top via 180 degree hinges to create a full sized dining room table that folds into about a 2 foot by 4 foot by 10 inches. We initially planned on attaching the legs via 90 degree hinges, but there was an issue with the order form and we only have 180 degree hinges. We plan on remedying this in the upcoming days so that the legs are attached to the table and fit within the folded structure.