Design Beyond Intention

Description

‘Design Beyond Intention’ examines how the conditions and parameters for designing for serial production can be applied in practice. Rather than formulating a complete design approach, the project focuses on validating its feasibility using aluminum extrusion as a manufacturing process and the resulting design of the Sori Bench as a case study. The project explores how early design decisions may influence construction, manufacturing, and serial production.

‘Design Beyond Intention’ should be understood as an experimental framework for evaluating and applying production-related requirements, material and manufacturing choices, as well as questions of optimization, transport, assembly, scaling, and reproducibility. The Sori Bench forms the project’s central outcome, a seating concept developed from a single custom aluminum extrusion. The profile geometry, integrated T-slots, and disassemblable construction unite formal, structural, and production-related considerations in one object.