Sustainable Lounge Chair Planning For Lounge And Living Room, Inspired By Anatomy

Abstract

Indonesia is a country that has tropical forests with abundant biodiversity of biological resources, but over time, the availability of raw materials is very crucial today for the forestry industry, which affects the sustainability of the forestry sector. To restore the sustainability of the forestry sector, especially the performance of the forest product processing industry into furniture, this research is expected to be able to produce a design of lounge chairs or lounge chairs by utilizing existing wood residues as best as possible so that it can help reduce the amount of wood waste that is just scattered. The general obstacle faced by the wood waste processing industry is the limited ability to design. It takes foresight in choosing wood waste to obtain the right chair design and suitable for use in the lounge area and living room. The design ideas chosen were inspired by the anatomy of the body, namely, pieces of human bones. The method used is through the design thinking process, including: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, to the test stage. The first step is to empathize through design observation and understand the problem to determine the type of wood waste material that can be used, then make a furniture plan in the form of lounge chairs. Based on the discussion, the results showed that wood waste, especially solid wood waste, can be used for the design of lounge chairs with the technique of laminating waste materials into new raw materials. The new raw material can be applied to the components of the chair. The results of the research are expected to be able to solve the problem of wood waste that has been left scattered, stacked, and burned, so that it has a negative impact on the environment to become a sustainable production product that has a unique and high selling value.