Desenvolvimento e produção de um mobiliário em madeira com encaixes

Abstract

Wood is a very important material used by humanity, especially in furniture production. Joinery emerges as an important construction method, ensuring longevity, resistance, and beauty to projects. This work aims to design and produce wooden furniture using joinery, demonstrating the entire design process, from paper to the final product, exploring both the material, regarding its physical aspects and its use in furniture, and the different existing joinery techniques. For the design methodology, the Double Diamond was used, which played an important role in design decisions, showing when to open and close possibilities. In the development, several tools were used, such as semantic panel, sketches, and virtual modeling. Sketches served as an important tool for generating initial ideas, but it was in modeling that the main decisions and testing were made, always with the aid and reference of images from the semantic panel, from where inspirations came and also the decision to design a small bench. Unfortunately, the model could not be produced in wood due to the strike of the technicians, which affected several laboratories and sectors of UFU - Federal University of Uberlândia. This made it necessary to find solutions to present the product, and therefore, the model was developed on a scale through 3D printing, despite setbacks and adaptation of the modeling, and represented also through rendered images with the product applied in an environment. At the end of the project development, the name Jaó Bench was assigned. Finally, it is important to emphasize the difficulty of accessing quality information about woodworking in general and, especially, about joinery, mostly available in a foreign language. Also, although the bench was not produced in wood, the design process was very important, and the impasses during the work allowed learning new modeling and visualization techniques, which can serve as tools for future projects.