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FOLDWELL

A coffee table with two chairs hidden inside.

A coffee table that holds two fold-out chairs and side drawers. A team of five built it for real in a workshop. I led the design and modeled it in SolidWorks.

Table133 × 64 × 47 cm

Seats2 fold-out chairs

StorageDrawers on both sides

Team5

Role: Design team leader · design and SolidWorks
Course: Training (2), group project
2025/2026
Tools: Sketching · SolidWorks · Woodworking
Team: Feras Mamdouh
Ahmed Khaled
Mariam Abdulhakam
Ibrahim Tarek
Abdelrahman Arafa

Supervised by Dr. Diaa Hamdy.

01Brief

Fold it. Store it. Live well.

Training (2) asked each group to design a piece of furniture and build it for real. Our idea was one object that is a coffee table, two chairs and storage. The chairs slide out from inside the table frame, so there are no extra pieces.

Four images showing the table closed, a chair halfway out and both chairs fully open — Closed, mid-deploy, fully open.

02Sketch

I led the design

I led the design side of the team and modeled the table and chairs in SolidWorks. The hard part was making the chair fold small enough to fit inside the table and still be comfortable when open. A teammate led operations and production, and the rest of us helped.

The table side profile in SolidWorks.

Technical drawing of the table body — Table body. Dimensions in cm.

Technical drawing of the folding chair with exploded views — Folding chair.

03Prototype

Built in a real workshop

We built it at full size. The front panel drops down on a gas strut, the chair frame slides out, and the hinges and drawer runners are fitted into the board. The design specifies natural ash; the prototype uses wood-look board and pine frames.

Drilling hinge holes into a wood-look panel — Drilling the hinge holes.

The built table with its front panel open and the chair frame stored inside — Chair stored inside the table.

The chair frame sliding out of the built table — Chair sliding out.

04Born

Jury day

The finished table was shown at the jury with our poster, scale models and the project book.

The finished FOLDWELL table at the jury with poster and scale models — FOLDWELL at the jury.

Concept visual of the table with both chairs in a living room — Concept visual from the poster.