Maezio chair / covestro / 2007
creating a new direction for a new material
The Maezio Chair is the answer to Covestro’s newly developed material Maezio™, consisting of endless fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite material.
The main design idea of the multidirectional layer arrangement was to show an oversized view of how the Maezio™ material is produced in small scale. Endless, filmy fibers are set up parallel next to each other and covered with polycarbonate. In a further processing step the resulting two-dimensional tapes are placed on top of each other in different directions and pressed into sheets. With special tools these sheets are thermoformed into the three components of the chair.
They represent the three directions of mechanical construction. Their orthogonal arrangement provides the necessary stability. The goal was to generate maximum load capacity with minimal material thickness. Furthermore, the connecting elements can be moulded directly onto the components, so that manual process steps are not required.
