SnP chair / project

The SnP chair by Daniel Widrig & Material Architecture Lab is an injection-molded recycled plastic sculpture of sorts. Its interlocking parts don’t require any additional fasteners, thus allowing the structural system to be disassembled and reassembled in any number of combinations, from the scale of a stool to an entire pavilion.

I admire the adaptability and wide applicability of this project, as well as the use of recycled material. With so many realized parametric projects, there is a tendency to disregard concerns of material use for the sake of the art.

Additionally, the interlocking “S” and “P”-shaped pieces are beautifully designed, with so many different configurations possible (as illustrated in the teams’ diagrams). The name “SnP” alludes to the s-traps and p-traps used in plumbing, though the project portfolio doesn’t elaborate much on the geometric reasoning of the individual module.