ABSTRACT
Sebastian Wierinck has designed and developed a series of installations which use a computationally manufactured skeleton as a framework for furniture constructed primarily of ribbed plastic tubing. The pipes function well in bundles as human-scale furniture pieces creating smooth surfaces for comfortable occupation. Wierinck's installations are all developed around an awareness of the performative criteria of the plastic tubing. The parameters of the tubing include the spanning distance, the radii of its curvature, and the relationship between the human body and bundles of the tubes as seating. The designer can make some assumptions about the overall shape, but the tubes will settle into a form based on each sectional profile. Each of these steel profiles is held in place with horizontal bracing along the ground plane and x-bracing between each piece just below the tubes. This bracing locks the sectional components together into a substructure or skeleton.
