in a compressed quarter your going to have to make some hard choices, even though that’s what the chair quarter is about to start with.
Undergraduate hand skills typically limit you to: cut plywood, bent plywood, bent tubing, bent sheet metal and simple upholstry (no concave surfaces). Unless you have the rescources to use more advanced techniques, like hire a pro to make some parts execute a process.
Rapid prototyping can be a huge help, lazer cutting steel parts or CNC’ing shapes or joinery in solid wood.
But making the best tradoffs is where most undergrads fall down. They either go way too ambitious and only have a stack of parts for Crit or they go way too timid and have a very chunky and over built chair.
Take your sketches and carefully think about how they get made, assembled and finished off. Dont try to make an ottoman unless your certain you have time and don’t design the chair from only one view (it’s very tempting) be sure it’s not a box.
looking forward to the updates…