Fulcrum

How can we retrieve the amputees right to stand?

Services

Industrial Design

Client

Carnegie Mellon University

Duration

Pennsylvania, U.S.A

software

2025

skillset

Research, Industrial Design

Info

How much longer will we keep pretending that our way of experiencing the world is the same as theirs? Fulcrum is a standing stool for office spaces meant for below the knee amputees.

Amputees are constantly denied the basics

Moreover, we seem to just add on top of it, without addressing their actual wishes

What does being an amputee entail?

Stripped away of necessary needs

Lower limb amputee-safe stool

Transfer safe, comfortable balance and aesthetical pleasing

Create a stool for hands free balance and body strain reducing in their daily activities

Objective

UNFOLD PROCESS

Diving in Deeper

Throughout the market research, multiple things were found out, such as the need for both legs to properly stabilize most standing stool

Sketches

Through multiple sketches and paper prototypes, ideas came to be realized.

Prototyping

Based the measurements on the average woman, and using my body for movement numbers.

How does it work

The person comes in and sits their leg on the support, they then simply align properly while leaving their can on the side.

Modeling

The modeling includes different designs, as well as mechanisms such as the pin and an angled seat that can be easily switched between seating sessions.

The rendering was then based on 3 different office asthetics: modern, industrial and resimercial.