Portfolio

2017 - 2019

Jaymin Panchasara
 1. Ciro - a Wooden Stool
German Design award Nominee 2019

2. Reo - an Outdoor Chair

Designboom and eight others featured

3. Affordable Office Table series

Godrej Design Lab 2017

4. Plastic Heat press Machine

Godrej Design Lab 2017

5. Office Furniture Series

I am an Industrial Design graduate specialised Annapoorna, New Delhi

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in Furniture and Interior Design from National
Insititute of Design. During my studies, I began to Noor - WIP
focus on designing objects, honing my keen sense Self Initiative Project
for materials, forms and colours. Coming from a
carpenter’s family, I always had an unconditional
attachment towards materials and Machines. Much
of my childhood was spent in my father’s workshop,
where i played with hammers and nails, and where
i could appreciate the process of transition from a
wooden log to a chair. It is there that i desire to be
an ‘object creator’ and dedicate myself to product
amd furniture design.

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 1. Ciro - a Wooden Stool
German Design award Nominee 2019

Wood and Cast Aluminium Stool Highlighting

the human touch in the world of Automized
Manufacturing.

Project Tenure : 2 Months

Year of Completion : 2017

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Brief
The Idea of making the Ciro stool originated with my
curiosity to experiment with Recycled Aluminium sand
casting and laminated Timber. While designing, Cane
seemed to be the ideal material to weave both the
materials together. A detailed research on casting,
followed by an ergonomic study including how a user
will interact, lift and sit on the stool was done. The
following is the Material explorations done for the
seating.
Explorations
Process
Ideation & Sketches
Quick 3D modelling
Scale down & 1:1 mock ups
To understand the proportions
CAD modelling
Development of the Pattern
For casting
Designing Ciro started by observing and studying
casting process. It has been formed through initial
ideation through a back and forth movement between
research, sketching, 3D modelling and scale models.
Many iterations on CAD were explored, keeping in
mind factors like over all weight, aluminium flow and the
frame sections. The exploration of the seating area was
conducted through 1:1 mock ups with Materials like,
Laminated timber, Cushion surfaces, Cane and rattan
weaves. Post processing involved surface finishing of
the ring on Lathe followed by VMC routing to create
mortises for the legs, similarly with Timber legs, Cnc
routers were used.

Casting

Cane + Wood
Post processing
Surface finish and Milling

Seat and legs development

Lathe and routing work

Paint job
Circular Jute
weave
Assembly

Rattan weave

Cushioned
Surface

Wood
Surface

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Today

Ciro builds a bridge between these two working methodologies,

where the hand woven cane part of the seat joins the machine
manufactured wooden and metal element. The weaving forms
a small percentage of the stool, but plays several significant
roles like aesthetics, comfort, holding the seat etc. and
encouraging craftsmanship in the right way!

We live in the age of mass-production, which standardizes

products and has its advantages like consistency, efficiency,
cost reduction and the lead time. It has indeed transformed
society in a major way. We feel the fading prominence of
handcrafted goods should be brought back to light and hold
more relevance in today’s world. The amount of passion,
mastery and attention to detail imprinted in the craftsman’s
creation weaves a strong story behind the product, a story
that’s unique and worth sharing.

The combination of the materials paved the way for deriving

the form of the stool. The stool consists of four components,
the Aluminium casted frame, cane, a wooden disc and legs.
The frame and the wooden disc are woven with cane by the
local craftsmen to create the seat. The radial cane weaving
Scan the QR code to brings out the bounce effect in the stool. It not only is a design
find the process video. element but also has a function adding value and comfort.

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 Awards
German Design Award Nominee
2019

Publications
1. Design-milk
2. Yanko Design
3. MocoLoco
4. Faberin
5. Design-inspiration

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 Reo - an Outdoor Chair
Designboom and six others featured

2. Reo - an Outdoor Chair

Designboom and eight others featured

The robust piece was thought as an extension

of the grounds of a building with conventional
construction materials such as concrete and
steel.

Project Tenure : 2 Months

Year of Completion : 2016

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Inspiration Process
The Reo-Chair - The steel sunflower blooms out of the
stone bud that sits in the garden. The robust seat was
thought out to be an extension at the grounds of a building
with conventional construction materials such as concrete
and steel. Yet the challenge remained to convert the
robustness of the materials to a more pleasing and gentle
aesthetics.

The circular form of the seat took away the conventional

forms that are expected from such materials, at the same
time the colors added the value addition. Steel rods are
bent individually at particular angles and shape to suit
ergonomics of a comfortable seat. These rods are placed in
the hollow concrete base for a simple outdoor garden chair.
Visually heavy that looks immobile is mere 8 Kilos for a
single person to lift on his/her own.

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 Mold
The mold used earlier had its own limitations, one
of them was the difficulty of releasing the mold after
the rods were welded, and so the mold had to be
demolished. This experimentation helped us generate
a brief of designing a mold, from which we were able to
produce multiple chair forms. The same mold was first
made of out of Timber and plywood, as we had these
materials in abundance. Also, before going forward with
the development of a metal mold, we wanted to have a
proof of concept. Below are the few images of the same.

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 Publications
1. Designboom
2. Faberin, Spain
3. Livinspaces, India
4. Archiworld
5. Contemporist
6. Harmonies
7. World Interiors News
8. Arts Illustrated, India
9. Experimenta, Spain

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 Affordable Office Table series
Godrej Design Lab 2017

3. Affordable Office Table series

Godrej Design Lab 2017

The Idea of designing an Office workstation

was primarily for our own studio. Reflecting
the problems, we thought of designing an
affordable solution for any young start-ups.

Project Tenure : 2 Months

Year of Completion : 2016

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Concept
The concept was to design an office workstation for
Startups/small scale firms, who has relatively less budget
for the furniture. Although not compromising on providing
them with basic necessary features like charging port,
wire manager and storage drawers.
Another feature of the workstation is, that it has electric
plug connections on both the ends. This allows users to
connect the desks with less number of floor connection
points. As it is meant for small scale firms, this feature
helps the user to modify the layouts of the office in many
ways. Along with this the workstation comes in a flatpack
1. form.
Material Development
like us who certainly need workstations but without going
hefty on their pockets. Replacing the normal wooden/
Laminated tops which other workstations offer, we
experimented with recycled plastics. After multiple trials, we
finalized on material and process. The inspiration of working
with plastic came from a forum called precious plastics.
Being confident of producing small recycled plastic sheet
samples from a domestic oven, we ideated on how to shape
the final prototype. From the ideation level to manufacturing
the heat press machine, for the development of full scale
recycled sheets, the process was a series of rigorous
experiments to achieve the final product finish.

Structure

1. Structure without any cross bracing members.

2. Results into a Parallelogram movement.
3. Tension cable with turn buckle (Cross-bracing)
helps stabilise the frame.

2. Cross bracing uses two diagonal members crossing

each other. These only need to be resistant to tension,
one brace at a time acting to resist sideways forces,
depending on the direction of loading.

3.

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 Awards
Godrej Design Lab 2017

Publications
1. Colour Quotient
2. Surface Reporter
3. Precious Plastics Forum

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 Plastic Heat press Machine
Godrej Design Lab Winner 2017

4. Plastic Heat press Machine

Godrej Design Lab 2017

The robust machine was produced to melt

the shredded waste plastic (Polypropylene)
granules in a form of a thick slab. The same
slab had to be used for the workstations.

Project Tenure : 3 Months

Year of Completion : 2016

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Concept
Discraded Plastic Shredding Process Heat Pressing the Curing the Sheets
Granules
The inspiration of working with recycled plastic came from
a forum called Precious plastic community. Dave hakkens,
the founder of precious plastic, introduced DIY machines
for reprocessing plastics. This led us to experimenting
with melting waste plastic products in the domestic ovens.
Limitations with the DIY machines were the size. The
whole awareness of using recycled plastics into day to day
products, and we took this as a challenge to slowly help
establish the relation and acceptance of the material with
the people. Acceptance of such recycled materials into our
daily lives might be a step in pushing the smaller dominos
for a gradual, but bigger change and we wanted to be a part
of this change.
The initial proposal to Godrej were two types of Heat
press. First was Conduction based oven and second was
Convection based oven.
1. Conduction based Heat press - Conduction heat is
basically the movement of heat from one solid to another
one that has different temperature when touching each
other.
2. Convection based heat press - Convection heat is heat
transfer by mass motion of a fluid such as air, water.
Both the types had its pros and cons. After analysising
both the types thoroughly, Conduction based heat press
was chosen, as it allowed easy replacements of heating
modules.
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Heating Elements
Frame Structure
Mica sheet
Polished Plate
Polished Plate tray
MS Plate
Mica sheet
Frame Strucuture
Heating Elements
The heat press machine was developed in conjunction
with Godrej Design Lab for the purpose of producing
Recycled Plastic slabs for workstation surface. It was an
idea to take our small home experiment to a bigger and
more commercial level, and for trying evolving different
application with the plastic sheets. For its merely a
prototype machine, built for experiment purpose, it has its
own advantages and disadvantages such as high energy
consumption and lack of cooling system makes it slow
to cool down. The advantage being that it was relatively
easier to replace heating coils at the time of shot circuit
or heater over burn failure, compared to its previous
iteration kept it on sustainable front for experimenting.
The heat press consists of certain important parts such
as structural plate with manual vertical screw movement,
polished top plate which will be in direct contact with the
plastic granules, polished travelling tray which can be
slide out to collect or to refill the material. Apart from that
parts like heating coils, heat controller module, chassis
and legs structure etc.
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 Sheet Size
1200 mm x 600 mm
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 Awards
Godrej Design Lab 2017

Publications
1. Colour Quotient
2. Surface Reporter
3. Precious Plastics Forum

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 Office Furniture Series
Annapoorna, New Delhi

5. Office Furniture Series

Annapoorna, New Delhi

The series contains workstations, Caddy and

side storages along with shelves and other Add
on Accessories.

Project Tenure : On-going

Year of Completion : Exp September 2019

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Brief
The project is a collaboration with a company called
Annapoorna Industrial corporation, based in New Delhi,
India. The workstation that was designed earlier had its
own limitations and issues. One of them was the central
wire manager and the hassle of removing the wooden
piece to access the charging ports. The scenario is
shown in the image below.

This problem was simply solved by adding a soft sliding

channel, which was part of the main workstation metal
body. The user can simply slide the top to access the
charging ports. Other issues that were catered were
Flat pack & easy assembly and add on attachments like
drawers and privacy screens.

The project is in the stage of prototype development.

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 Process
The Noor Chair consists of three parts; the shell, the
frame and the legs. The Frame and the legs are made
up of recycled Aluminum, which uses 5% of the energy
required to extract and process the new Aluminum. The
shell is made up of PET bottle shredded Felt, which
is again a material which allows efficient methods of
reusing the waste plastic around. This can prove to be
very economical when it comes to manufacturing the
product.

The shell and the frame gets attached with the help of
an epoxy glue layer usually used in the automobile
sector. The project is still at a very initial level, and aren’t
sure if the same detail will work without a proof
of concept.

6. Noor - WIP
Self-initiated Project

The concept was to understand the

ergonomics, material, the process and fine
tuning the design details for the ease of
assembly and material manufacturing. The
project is at standstill and are looking for a
senior mentor for guidance.

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Jaymin Panchasara
Jaymin.panchasara@outlook.com
(+91) 917 356 4808