Scale Prototype

Due to the lack of appropriate materials, the scale prototype does not include the metal rods which act as the seating plane.

This 1:5 scale model is made from a single cardboard net, cut and folded to produce this shape. This model has opened up the possibility of perhaps replicating the net and making it out of laser cut steel for the full sized prototype, instead of wood. The advantage of having a laser cut steel sheet may be in reducing the overall mass and also increasing the precision of hole alignment for the steel rods, by reducing the tolerances often attributed to human error during manufacturing with wood.