Parametric (WEIRD) Furniture Concepts

For this week's post, we were asked to draft some concepts for a furniture design using definitions in Grasshopper. See my concept below








Most of the ideas I came up with were shelves. I decided to move forward with a shelf idea that I felt could be manipulated the most drastically.

I'm hoping that with this design I could manipulates the following attributes, while still creating a somewhat function shelf design:
- shelf size and thickness
- location of shelf planks (x,y,z)
- placement of poles
- poles thickness and length

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