Esquisse One - Triangulation

For the second week of Furniture Design class, we were required to design a 5 sided pyramid using only balsa wood and 1mm wire. No adhesive can be used to mate it together. So I started of with some sketches and calculation to see how I can combine those 2 materials. This is the result:



I used also wood as the base. The balsa wood which I bought was not long enough so I decided to join the 2 pieces together by using the 1mm wire (making it into sort of a staple form). The wire frame which I used to make the other 4 sides of my pyramid had the same staple jointing when mating with the balsa wood. I find that it is the most effective method as it makes it stable.