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My name is Gabriel Blue Cira and I’m an architecture student at MIT. I’ve become increasingly interested in furniture design and general object design over the past few years. I like to find old chair skeletons and refit them with interesting materials. I’m a monitor in the N51 woodshop, and I’ve made tables and chairs there, mostly of wood and steel. I use the CNC router here and there, either to cut furniture components or molds for vacuum-forming parts. I have a (healthy) obsession with contours. This past summer I worked for Howëler + Yoon Architecture, and my main project was more object design than architecture. I designed and prototyped a solar-powered, floating, glowing, tiling ‘pillow’ for a large exhibit for display (hopefully) in the Boston harbor next to the ICA.