Playful Timber Blocks Stacked to Create Modular Furniture | Takuto Ohta

FDT Bureau

Designer Takuto Ohta has ideated a tool to bring out the sensibility and imagination of stacking things according to intuition. One of the most memorable toys from our childhood, blocks have been integrated by the designer in the creation of his collections Deku and Innocent. Here is a detailed report on FURNITURE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY (FDT).

According to Ohta, block with 45^o cuts can be piled up in various angles and shapes. With the help of masking tape, it is easier to design a minimum structure that gives a range to modeling. For him, “I don't think about what I'm making, but I feel the laws of physics in the freedom and inconvenience of combinations. I like furniture, so when I moved my hands, the furniture was made naturally. The creativity of building blocks that can be transformed into rockets and buildings is a manifestation of complexity with little motivation.”

Drawing instances from the pleasure of creating a stone pile up on the river banks or mountaintops, Ohta believes that humans have an inherent sense of something that is filled between matter and action. Differing in shapes and colours, the Deku and Innocent collections showcase a satisfying stack of furniture.

Ohta puts forth how easily one can group the timber blocks together by using colourful masking tape to make various designs. All one has to do is experiment with the laws of physics with no particular end goal in mind, except creative intuition.

Image credit: Takuto Ohta