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I used two rigid cardboard joints to hold the coathanges in a tripod configuration.

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Version five proved to be the most stable version yet, such that my flatmate felt comfortable balancing an overpriced starbucks mug on it.

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I thought introducing metal trusses might be an easy way to help with the stability.

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I imagined making the table taller by adding an additional set of coathangers in an additional orientation.

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I imagined adding metal coathangers to the base, to help with rigidity and also because adding more weight to the bottom might bake the structure less likely to topple.

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I decided to experiment with the shapes that could be formed with coathangers, and try to work out which shapes were the strongest.

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I cut out the table top from MDF. I drew a circle, and roughly followed its path on the bandsaw, and then matched more precisely using the belt sander.

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While i was looking for more hangers for Version 3, it crossed my mind that trouser hangers with clips could be used to reinforce the structure

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i thought I could use string to restrict the maximum deflection of certain strcutural member sin certain directions.

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I went to the workshop and created the central connecting piece out of MDF.

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It did seem to make the coathangers redundant (if you're going to have metal trusses, why not just use them as legs?)

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Placing them in the centre would make the inverted tripod rigid with the bottom tripod.

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I think one of the reasons the original coathanger table worked aesthetically was because of its hourglass-like shape. Trusses would disrupt this shape, so I don't think it would look as good.

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I created a pocket into which a 'table top' could be slotted.

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I liked the way this looked, but it was too small.

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Reinforce the legs by doubling-up coat hangers

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Reinforce the legs by doubling-up coat hangers

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Part of the reason the structure was unstable was because the coathangers were only designed to withstand force in a given direction, and so they would twist easily under forces from other direction.

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I thought doubling up the coathangers might add enough strength to stop with twisting, but I didnt have enough of the same type of coathangers to try this howvwer.

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Reintroducing the metal coathangers would make the base rigid. The trouser coathanger would transfer this rigidity up the structure).

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While this didn't entirely fix the stability, it improved it enough that I was happy to showcase ut at the class demo-day.

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Imagined repairing broken coathangers with other materials , such as wood, in order to use them as structural members.

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- The table is CLEARLY unstable
- The table is too small to be a dining a dining table, will need to be sold as coffee table or side-table

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The table was still not stable as it needs to be. If I were to develop it further, I would need to look at other ways of reinforcing the legs to stop them twisting under certain loads.

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Playing about with the shapes that could be formed. and trying to imagine what type of products they might apply to