Sustentabilidade, materiais e design: o uso do bambu laminado na produção de mobiliário

Abstract

The Brazilian furniture market was responsible, in 2009, for 28% of harvested wood from the Amazon forest (IMAZON, 2010). Taking into consideration the increasing deforestation in Brazil, its intrinsic correlation with global warming and drastic modifications in local flora and fauna, urges the need of finding an alternative material to wood, which usage has considerably less environmental effects than the impact that wood extraction has on the environment. Therefore, this undergraduate thesis proposes the usage of Glued Laminated Bamboo (GLB) as wood substitute in the production of domestic furniture. For this project a set of side tables was developed from GLB, focusing on a specific target public. For the development of this project, two main methodologies were used: Firstly from Bernd Lobach (2001), proposed in the book “Fundamentals of industrial product design”, additionally to that, Mike Baxter (2008) methodology , introduced in the book “Product Design: Practical Methods for the Systematic Development of New Products”.