Specialist education | Workshop to choose from | Hours per week - 6 | ECTS - 5 | Type of credit - ZST
Legend: zal - passed; zst - pass with grade; exam - exam; ekm - commission exam

Individual project (basic form of classes), lecture, didactic dialogue, didactic discussion, workshop classes, seminar, e-learning.

Positive credit for all course subjects of the first and second year of SSL.

Presentation of completed semester tasks, providing mastering the basic skills of the designer's workshop and the ability to combine their own creativity with technical and technological knowledge in order to obtain individual design solutions that meet ergonomic, functional, formal and artistic requirements.

Students completing semester assignments receive two grades: project grade and grade for a technical study using the full, valid rating scale.

The components of the evaluation:
independence of work -20%
assessment of the degree of involvement -20%
project submission level -20%
plastic and substantive level of the project -20%
implementation of the prototype -20%

The educational process is carried out through the implementation of whole-term, individual project tasks, supplemented in the winter semester with a series of lectures addressing issues relevant to furniture design.

Contents discussed in lectures:
1. Materials and technologies used in furniture making - wood and wood-based materials.
2. Materials and technologies used in furniture making - metals, plastics, plaiting materials, foams and textiles.
3. Joinery connectors.
4. Furniture - types of furniture due to their construction, function and purpose.
5. Ergonomics in furniture making.
6. Furniture documentation: types and purposes of documentation, design documentation, production documentation (CNC).
7. Fusion 360 - introduction to 3D modeling.
8. Introduction to 3D printing - possibilities and limitations.

The implementation of project tasks is aimed at familiarizing with the furniture design process, starting with the formulation of design assumptions, through the search for a form with particular emphasis on sketching and hand-made modeling in the 1: 1 scale, taking into account the ergonomic conditioning, choice and the use of appropriate materials, constructions and connections, by preparing project documentation based on Industry Standards, regarding technical furniture drawing (BN-90 / 7140-03 / 01-09) to implement the prototype, in order to create a furniture that meets the assumed utility and construction functions and aesthetic. Laboratory equipment, instrumentation, collected didactic materials and experience of the lecturers allow to implement the curriculum from equipment into knowledge, through sketchy formal searches to experiments and testing forms at the target scale (1: 1).

The implementation of the didactic program is aimed at:

- awakening the need for creative search for non-obvious, multi-threaded solutions, drawing inspiration from the surrounding world and using them in creative work
- developing the ability of creative problem solving: functional, ergonomic, structural and formal
- awareness of joining the material and construction of the designed furniture into a homogeneous logical form, fulfilling a specific utility and aesthetic function.
- education skills in designing housing equipment with furniture and furnishings that meet the requirements Usable, aesthetic and emotional.

ENGINEERING AS A TOTAL PROJECT

SINGLE FURNITURE - MY BOOKS
Design a piece of furniture for storage or using books that are important to you.
FORMY priority, adequate MATERIAL and resulting CONSTRUCTION.

Objectives of the task

Practical use of lecture information and implementation of the furniture design process:
- constructing logical design assumptions, their function ordering the design process, clear defining expectations and design constraints
- searching for a form by sketching, modeling, 3D modeling, with an emphasis on searching different variants of solutions, selecting ideas
- preparation of technical documentation in accordance with the accepted rules regarding the furniture drawing
- Hand-made modeling on a 1: 1 scale, in substitute materials and in the target material that is continuation of the mold search, checking the designed solutions on the target scale material, constructional, ergonomic.

Scope of the semester task:

- design assumptions of the furniture (scenario)
- conceptual design of furniture (sketches of drawings, visualizations)
- furniture draft models in the reduction scale
- basic design of the furniture in a scale of 1: 5 (rectangular projections + perspective view)
- executive design of the furniture in 1: 1 scale * (working drawing in accordance with the implementation requirements)
- study model of furniture in 1: 1 scale (from substitute materials)
- implementation of a 1: 1 furniture prototype (from target or replacement materials)
- as-built technical documentation of the furniture *
- description of the furniture
- photographic documentation of the completed piece of furniture

The design documentation of the design process (design assumptions, conceptual sketches, pictures of mock-ups, basic design and photo or visualization of the completed piece of furniture) should be presented on a 100 × 50 cm (horizontal) format board.

* Technical documentation, it is implemented depending on the needs and its purpose and character, it can be a set of views and cross-sections in the 1: 1 scale, an A4-size notebook, containing assembly drawings and executive elements on a 1: 1 scale, or a set of executive drawings prepared for a specific device.

1. Furniture design - Jerzy Smardzewski - PWRiL 2009.
2. Anthropometric Atlas of the adult Polish population for design purposes - IWP
3. Meblarstwo - basic construction and design - Czesław Mętrak - WNT 1992.
4. Furniture constructions - Irena Swaczyna - WSiP 1998.
5. Ergonomics of the flat - Etienne Grandjeane - ARKADY 1978.
6. Ergonomic Design - Edwin Tytyk - PWN 2001.
7. Furniture constructions. Technical drawing - Lesław Giełdowski - WSiP 1995.

1. Terminological glossary of furniture - J. Grzelak - PWN 1998.
2. Anatomy of wood - Wojciech Kokociński - PRODRUK 2005
3. Wood Atlas - J.D. Godet - MULTICO Publishing House 2008
4. Material science of the wood industry - J. Szczuka, J. Żurowski - WSiP 1999.
5. Stylish furniture - F. Asensio - ARKADY 2004.
6. Stylish furniture - Gyula Kaesz. - Ossolineum 1990
7. Computer-aided design - J. Gis, R. Markiewicz - REA 2008.
8. Computer-integrated furniture production - Jerzy Smardzewski - PWRiL 2007.
9. Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals - Rob Thompson - Thames & Hudson 2007.

Equipment of the workshop in which the classes are conducted:
The studio is equipped with:
- workstations, enabling a quick rearrangement of the worktop layout, respectively lit, designed to work on concept and technical development, work with mockups (also on a 1: 1 scale)
- instrumentation (computer with internet access, manual power tools, modeling tools, cutter for styrofoam, 3D printer)
- teaching materials in the form of catalogs, samplers and samples related to furniture.

The implementation of the program in terms of technology and technology is based mainly on the possibilities of departmental workshops: carpentry modeling and modeling of different techniques.
In the case where it is not possible to realize prototypes of furniture designs using target materials in departmental model houses, it is permissible to implement in external workshops or to implement models allowing for the character and form of the furniture in substitute materials.

Documentary and presentation projects are created in cooperation with faculty photographic and computer studios (access to computers equipped with graphic and CAD software).