OOoo Chair: A chair that really isn't there
Take a seat and dangle your feet in Decker Yeadon's zero-material design concept, the OOoo Chair.
Images: Decker Yeadon 
OOoo Chair is an innovate design solution that attempts to address the energy and waste problems that are propelled by furniture production and disposal. The project intends to provoke a change in our behavior, and in our way of thinking about our furniture. The chair concept is almost as simple as sitting on the floor."
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Design by someone who really wants to tickle other people's feet from underneath or worse smell them. oooooooo yucky.
Of course this is entirely unworkable, but very funny, and maybe it will be the seed thought that will allow someone to actually innovate something. It cracks me up to think about a lecture hall full of people sitting at floor level with their feet in holes, but if taken seriously and implemented it adds up to performance art, but not helpful progress, I'd say.
Very entertaining!
We all see that the chair is "naked," so it's a joke. Designers, you can save face now. Too bad you didn't post this on April 1st.
about a "chair" that:
Is difficult to get up from
Gives us cold legs
Has non-circular holes so plastic covers can be dropped down them
Has ankle breaking risk when covers left off
Uses plastic for covers instead of genuinely recyclable wood
Requires a heated basement or an extra floor in every house
Is a security risk for improved burglar access
Cannot be moved to exactly where the chair is needed
Is not padded
Has no back.... More
Most houses in my part of the world (Texas) are built on a concrete slab foundation. Besides the discomfort of such a chair, practical installation is not an economic solution especially compared to purchasing a chair from a thrift store. Even in upstairs bedrooms, there isn't enough space between floors to make this idea doable. Do I have to drill new holes if I move the bed? Who wants to look up to see feet dangling from the ceiling, not to mention the disruption of air flow in the.... More
Not only can it work as a chair, but it can double as a toilet too! Although the neighbors below you aren't going to be too happy about it.
Seriously.
You are sooooo close.
I'm a parapalegic.
Let's, for a second, take this idea seriously. Builders will have to construct an extra floor in every building to prevent dangling legs from hanging over someone else's head. That's an entire floor, with all the resources that requires, versus a dining table and a few chairs.
All I can see now is pissing off your wife and ending up anklecuffed in your chair.
Your wife will have every reason to be pissed off after she catches you playing "Mr Tickle" with the co-eds living in the apartment on top of yours.
Damn you cement foundation! You always ruin everything!
Sit cross-legged on the floor.
Bugs from the subflooring (spiders, millipedes, ants, household pests) crawling up your legs. Ewwwwwww!
To say nothing of energy loss...We don't typically heat our basement so what happens in the winter when we are "sitting" to read a book or watch TV. The air exchange alone would negate this idea!
Very silly - but clearly sparked a conversation which is likely what it was meant to do.
I get into plane
2 do no take paracute
3 jump out
4 rapture, if it is going to occur, should follow shortly
I installed these in my car and OHHH MYYY GODDDD
The tree-hugging PC contingent have officially jumped the shark. So wrapped up in trying to impress people with how much better they are then everyone else, they have completely gone bat-$^#-crazy. Seriously, if this isn't a joke; God please speed things up a bit, I think we're about ready for the Rapture.
As a tree-hugger, I can safely say at least 99% of us also think this is a stupid idea
I don't care if New York goes dark for 6 weeks.
I get into plane
2 do no take paracute
3 jump out
4 rapture, if it is going to occur, should follow shortly
So you're going to cut holes in your floor (this requires electricity). This requires recycled plastic discs, (this requires energy to recycle the material, plus energy to collect the material for recycling, energy to ship it to stores, energy for you to get to the store to buy it, or energy to purchase it online). So how is this green? Just sit on the floor and shut up about it if you're worried about a chair being non conservative. How about Re-use a used chair, (less energy.... More
Given the energy to cut the hole, the plastic disk, and the probably loss in home heating efficiency how is this better than simply recycling a crate someone is throwing away or buying a wooden chair at a tag sale for like $1.00
Also, how many floors really have nothing below them? No finished basement. No downstairs neighbor.
Lastly, this "chair" has no back support or arms. It sounds miserable.
/sofa king we todd did
Here is a thought. If you are just going to use the floor to sit on, how about you don't drill and holes and don't use any plastic bags, and you just fold your legs and sit on the floor?
Wouldn't that be much more green than using power tools and plastics?
Someone, somewhere is, at this very moment, trying to turn this idea into porn.
that would be me
Recyclable or not, nothing requires plastic discs is a 'zero-material' idea. This is stupid from every angle.
Just calling this stupid does not fully accomodate the breadth of stupidity invovled here. There really is no word to describe the idiocracy of this idea.
Seems to me that if you're drilling a hole in the floor and you're going to be creating a gap in the insulation, which would actually cause you to have to heat your home more and potentially use more fossil fuels. Not to mention that cutting holes in the floor would certainly have to be restored before the home could be resold and if the floors are hardwood, that means the whole floor would need to be replaced, requiring MORE trees to be cut down. If the floor is carpeted, then that means more.... More
German children's TV host Peter Lustig did this in his "Löwenzahn" series, episode "Peter erfindet einen Stuhl" ('Peter invents a chair'), 1990.
Cut a third hole and you have a green toilet.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA! I can't stop laughing now :)
round holes would prevent the "lid" from being dropped into the basement.
My downstairs neighbors were *not happy*. Seriously, I take off my shoes before I use my Floor Chair and they still complain. Some people just don't want to be happy. :-(
This house concept uses less materials than the OOoo Chair... The floor is created from natural soil and the ceiling is the sky above. Everyone understands the progrssive nature of the house-without-walls concept.
Since you're not using your old house, I'll be happy to take it off your hands.
The Virtual House has room for an unlimited quantity of OOoo Chairs, too.
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nuff said.
Doctors will love this idea thinking about all the squashed nuts and broken legs of those that wander into the holes.
I have the patent on the recliner version.
If it is all about energy savings vs. building furniture, why not just sit on a large rock? Isn't cutting holes in the floor going to use energy just like making the chairs they replace? Instead, how about finding a large object (a rock) and sit on it! No holes to drill, no plugs to manufacture... etc. This is the WORST idea I've ever seen.
What happens if you want to rearrange your living space? Do you cut out more holes? Repair the old ones? Install a whole new floor?
