UPCYCLED CENTER TABLE

Authors

  • ANTONY CHARLES M.Des(Interior& FurnitureDesign)
  • SONALI CHOPRA Assistant Professor,Product & Industrial Design

Keywords:

Automobile,, Centre table, Furniture design

Abstract

India being a developing country has over 200 million vehicles on the road, which averages to about 5-6 million vehicles being scrapped every year. Without proper facilities,the scrap just accumulates overtimes and causes more environmental damage.Sustainabledevelopment has become a key issue across the world for individuals as well as business, industries and governments. The focus of sustainable development has been on minimizing the energy consumption and optimizing the use of materials.To reuseautomobile scrap parts as an alternative material for furniture design in interior spacesbyconsidering the impact onenvironmental changes, demographic shifts, global capitaldisparities, and economic growth-oriented prototyping which are both wasteful and polluting. Theobjective of the present research focuseson upcycling automobile scrap and applying the same through broad spectrums of product essential applicable in Interior discipline. The outcome of the research shall proposeto design a centertable model for interior space by the technique of upcycling automobile parts.

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Published

2021-03-27

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