The 1:1 Chair treats its thin planes as load-bearing elements, not decoration. They do not sit on top of the form — they are the form, weaving continuously into the armrests and backrest without interruption.

A structural core of layered slabs underneath gives the chair its curvature and carries its loads. The thick slab body sits alongside the thin intersecting skin, making both the material and the structural logic visible at the same time.

Built at full scale from recycled cardboard, a waffle system embedded in the construction lets the chair hold approximately 90 lbs. The brief demanded sustainability as a working constraint, not as a concept applied after the fact.

The project was developed for Prof. Christopher A. Battaglia's studio at Cornell AAP and became the direct conceptual starting point for the Exhibition House of Chairs in the same semester.