UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 14, 1994
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Class to create airplane interior
Richard Devinki/KANSAN
Students designing project for Learjet at renovated farm
Tom Yi, Lake Forest, Ill., senior, works with a quarter scale Learjet model to find a better way to utilize the interior space. Yi is a student in the Problems in Design class, which meets at Chamney Farm, 2445 W. 15th St. The class eventually hopes to build a full-scale model of the plane to test their new interior plans.
By Mary Beth Kurzak & Trine Nygaard Andersen Special to the Kansas
A class of KU design students are building a pilot project for airplane passengers.
A high-tech airplane manufacturer in Wichita and an old farm in Lawrence, which used to be the home of KU's glass blowing classes, have come together in Industrial Design 578.
On Tuesday 12 students and Lance Rake, professor of industrial design, moved their Problems in Design class from the Art and Design Building into the newly remodeled rooms of the Chamney Farmhouse, 2445 W. 15th St.
Through the Center for Design Research, a new program in the School of Fine Arts, the students are working on a project with Learjet Inc. of Wichita.
Later in the semester, a full-scale model of the interior of a 31A Learjet airplane will take form inside the barn. The class is building the model to test if its ideas would work in the 31A Learjet, a personal jet that holds up to eight passengers and generally is used by business executives.
Scott Ryan, Salina senior, said that the project's main goal was to increase passenger comfort in the small cabin, which is about 12 to 14 feet long, 4 feet 4 inches tall, and 5 feet wide.
One of the class's ideas includes making seats that would be more comfortable and that could be stored. The retractable seats would provide
passengers more room for equipment such as computers.
"We hope to develop a system that will be modular in nature," Rake said. "Then we can adapt it to the specific needs of each client without having to start from a blank sheet."
Darrell Truitt, Lawrence senior,
said that Learjet could use any idea
the think tank could generate but that
there were no obligations.
Leearist is the center's first and only client this semester. In future semesters, the class will work on different projects with different clients.
Rake said that he and Joe Zeller, head of the department of art and design, had discussed the concept of
the center for many years but that the department lacked space for it.
An opportunity for the center arose two years ago when the school stopped offering glass blowing classes at Chamney Farm. Through money from the school and alumni donations, the farm is being upgraded. Learjet Inc. will finance the materials needed for the airplane project.
Truitt said industrial design students usually worked alone on other projects. This project resembles work done in the professional world, where industrial designers work on teams.
Rake chose the students for this team based on portfolios of their work. He said that the students
involved were at various levels of their education and that each had different abilities and skills in the field of industrial design.
Brook Anderson, Central City, Colo, senior, said that such diversity in the group led to strong work practices.
Ryan said that although the class was just in its beginning stages, it had already been a good experience.
"The spread of jobs and the distribution of work is a lot more balanced," Anderson said.
"The most interesting thing is working as if we had a real industrial design office," Ryan said. "There is a lot more pressure to come up with real work."
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