Beach Buggy Lounge
Beach Buggy Lounge Project Description
The Beach Buggy Lounge stems from a restoration project. I made use of a seating component from a previous, abandoned, project and reconfigured it to serve a new purpose in a new work. A new steel support structure was bent and welded to the original seat form, but instead of feet designed to sit on the floor, fat pneumatic wheels and broad disks were utilized to provide function in a beach environment. A front arm serves as a foot rest and handle for rolling the Buggy over sand. The curved Fir frame and Dacron skin create a light weight and adjustable shade for protection from sun and wind while also providing a small degree of privacy. The Beach Buggy Lounge is the first piece in a new line of work involving mobile structures and exploring the liminal privacy created by temporary shelters.
Buggy Lounge was built to be a mobile environment, a rolling sun shelter and lounge chair for me to bring to the beach. With an adjustable roof, a new head rest, and a better handle, it serves very well in that capacity. Buggy Lounge is an evolving piece, now in its third variation, as pieces have been added to it and cut away. I couldn’t keep my hands off of the tools long enough for design work to get past the doodle stage. But Buggy Lounge has always been more about action, and working intuitively and directly in material. Sometimes, just occasionally, you need to put the pencils down and build something.
Buggy Lounge was built to be a mobile environment, a rolling sun shelter and lounge chair for me to bring to the beach. With an adjustable roof, a new head rest, and a better handle, it serves very well in that capacity. Buggy Lounge is an evolving piece, now in its third variation, as pieces have been added to it and cut away. I couldn’t keep my hands off of the tools long enough for design work to get past the doodle stage. But Buggy Lounge has always been more about action, and working intuitively and directly in material. Sometimes, just occasionally, you need to put the pencils down and build something.
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