Abstract
The method called KANSHITSU is a way of making forms by using composite material that consists of natural fiber for the structure and URUSHI as a resin. This method has same principle as FRP and Japanese people were hundred of years ahead of their time in the way they worked on KANSHITSU before the invention of FRP in the twentieth century. This research reveals the possibility of KANSHITSU being able to substitute FRP positively by an experiment to test the structural physical properties of KANSHITSU and also reports the process of digital designing and fabricating a monocoque-structured chair that is made by the method of traditional KANSHITSU.
