Annunziata Engineering Portfolio

Puzzle Design Challenge
Brief

Client: Fine Office Furniture,
Inc.

Target Consumer: Ages
3+

Designer: Annunziata

Problem Statement: A local office furniture
manufacturing
company throws away tens of thousands of scrap ¾” hardwood
cubes that result from its furniture construction processes. The material is
expensive, and the scrap represents a sizeable loss of
profit.

Design Statement: Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
would like to return value to its waste product by using it as the raw material
for desktop novelty items that will be sold on the showroom floor. Design,
build, test, document, and present a three-dimensional puzzle system that is
made from the scrap hardwood cubes. The puzzle system must provide an
appropriate degree of challenge to a person who is three years of age or
older.

Criteria:

1. The puzzle must
be fabricated from 27 – ¾”hardwood cubes.

2. The puzzle system must
contain exactly five puzzle pieces.

3. Each individual puzzle piece must
consist of at least four, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are
permanently attached to each other.

4. No two puzzle pieces can be the
same.

5. The five puzzle pieces must assemble to form a 2 ¼”
cube.

6. Some puzzle parts should
interlock.