3D Printed Furniture: Shower Stall

 

Challenge: To produce a furniture feature for a Dolls House.

Background: It ended up being our major design project from out class in New Zealand during term one, as the students and the tasked developed during the course of the term.

The final phase is the printing of the furniture which we are using to place inside of the Dolls House.  You can view the details of the project here.

This design was one of the first designs that was created in the second (completed) phase of prints.  These prints were large and intended to be a one off print that would be permanently featured in the Dolls House and as a bathroom a key feature.

This bathroom shower stall was designed to work in conjunction with the figure shown left - this is not the same as the other in the series that featured the 'lego esq. figure'.    However there were a few issues created by this - the miniature barbie like figure shown left is an excellent fit for the shower head, however not the mirror on the wall or the shampoo bottle that is in the top right hand corner.

Size:    The stall was 120mm across and was 110mm deep.   The print at the back was 170mm high.   This was needed for the dimensions as shown however if the other figure was used the stall would need to be considerably smaller.

Once the student is back from the holidays a decision will be made to reduce the dimensions for the other figure although as a feature of the bathroom this piece of furniture will feature significantly.

Timeframe: Eighteen hours.   This was a significant print, with a large base and design.   The potential reduce the print time could have come from printing the shower head separately and the other issue would be the size of the stall as required by the figure.

What we would do differently/next steps for the students: The student  was able to design this complicated and detailed print independently and as it stands at the moment there will be no further adjustments to the print.