KVLT: The Foldable Lounge Chair
Project Leads: Naroth Murali and Akbar Yunos
KVLT is a foldable lounge chair, born from an exploratory and experimental design process centred around the theme of 'skin and bones'. It is able to collapse into a portable structure for easy storage.
This working prototype is made from birch wood planks, jelutong wooden joints, and canvas.
This working prototype is made from birch wood planks, jelutong wooden joints, and canvas.
The exploration of the chair's folding mechanism stemmed from a set of rudimentary ice cream sticks and rubber bands.
The beauty of this chair lies in the way it folds into a very compact form along two axes, and through the use of articulating joints. It utilizes the canvas skin to distribute weight along the joints, acting like a hammock.