Name:
Drift Furniture System
What:
The drift furniture system is a collection of 3D printed connectors and node components that allow for wooden dowels to be joined together in a non-destructive fashion to form frameworks for furniture. Flat surfaces or fabric can then be mounted to these to form furniture that is of the user’s personal dimensions. Using Press fits for the dowels allows for the user to dismantle the furniture quickly and without tools. If the Drift furniture components need to be altered for a different piece of furniture only a hex key or wrench is required.
Why:
There has been a 63% rise in people living within the private rental sector up to 4.5 million by 2017. But of those 4.5 million, 62% remain within the same home for less that 3 years.
Home furniture is most often discarded during the moving process or after it is found to not fit the living space of a new home environment.
This has resulted in 670,000 tonnes of waste home furniture with over half of this still being usable.
Drift looks to reduce the frustrations and damage that occurs commonly with flat pack furniture that leads to it being discarded rather than kept and repaired for a longer lifespan.
3D Printed Prototype
Technical Drawings :
Construction Diagrams :
Product Specifications for assembly :
The above link is to the PDF for assembly of a large wardrobe unit, a parts list and printing requirements for parts within the Drift system.
Bill of Materials :
CAD Files :
CAD files can be found and viewed within the following GitHub Repository.
