lexington KENTUCKY

The Augmented Fabrication seminar focused on the design and prototyping of custom fabrication machines that combine digital precision with user skills/intuition. The projects began with research into specific techniques and equipment used in fabrication at a large and small scale to examine how these processes use a network of highly specific tools to achieve a complex result. Each team took one of these techniques and developed a machine that was used to fabricate their final installation. The machines are controlled by digital animations that give the designer a high degree of control over the output of the system. The individual pieces produced by the machines were then assembled into the final prototypes.

Images: Michael Haas

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Emergent Technologies and Design [EmTech] @ Architectural Association London
Super-Surface Fabrication: Python scripting and fabrication workshop

Tutors: Marina Konstantatou, Vincenzo Reale, & Giancarlo Torpiano (with the collaboration of Evan Greenberg).

Digital generative tools coupled with rapid prototyping/fabrication techniques have permeated architectural education and practice at all levels.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Emergent Technologies and Design [EmTech] @ Architectural Association London
Super-Surface Fabrication: Python scripting and fabrication workshop

Tutors: Marina Konstantatou, Vincenzo Reale, & Giancarlo Torpiano (with the collaboration of Evan Greenberg).

Digital generative tools coupled with rapid prototyping/fabrication techniques have permeated architectural education and practice at all levels.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

david VUONG, yuna KUBOTA, ivan RODRIQUEZ, & sheena OLIMPO: This studio was intended to investigate a composite wall system of focused material and fabrication process through formulation of a half scale mockup. As a group of four, we explored an intelligent concrete wall system of horizontal draping fabric forming method. The concrete panels were designed to maximize the unique characteristics of the fabric form concrete, which included flexibility and softness of fabric opposing to the permanence and hardness of concrete, varieties in the elasticity and permeability of different fabric types, and reusability of formwork.

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hong kong CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

kristof CROLLA (LEAD), sebastien DELAGRANGE (LEAD), emmi KESKISARJA (EDGE), and pekka TYNKKYNEN (EDGE): The Dragon Skin Pavilion is an architectural installation designed and built for the 2011-12 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture.

The Pavilion utilises a newly developed environmentally friendly material called “post-formable” plywood, which incorporates layers of adhesive film to allow easy single-curved bending without the need for steam or extreme heat. With no material loss, a CNC mill divided 21 of these 8×4 plywood sheets into eight identical squares, and accurately cut the unique connection slots that were programmed into the pavilion geometry by computer.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

cmmnwlth (zoe COOMBES & david BOIRA): The Seltanica is a production light we originally developed for Wright Auction and Volume Gallery of Chicago. It appeared in their fall contemporary exhibit, ‘Truth in Form, Reason For Being’. It is a suspension lamp, cast in white Gypsum. Modeled via software generally used for the replication of animal skins and other such intricate surfaces, the piece is ultimately cast into a material that has over 5,000 years of use- White Gypsum. This attempt to relate the contemporary to the historical is common to most of our work.

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london ENGLAND

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

daniel WELHAM & mark NICOL: Fourfoursixsix were invited to participate as one of the artists for the Fabergé Big Egg Hunt which runs throughout London from 21st February 2012. The city will become home to 200 giant and uniquely crafted Easter eggs for an event that is a first of its kind, aiming to raise vital funds for charities Action for Children and Elephant Family, inviting tourists, locals and visitors to join in a truly magical experience.

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hong kong CHINA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

KWOK-TUNG chun: This project aimed to partition off two rooms from a tiny flat 4.4 by 7.2 meters, of which impossible to give the rooms windows that are toward to outside. Thus, optimise the qualities of the two rooms is the goal of the design, regarding natural lighting, ventillation and privacy.

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thessaloniki GREECE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

INFRARED: Madren 5340 is a temporary installation designed and fabricated by infrared in the context of the platforma 1 exhibition, organized by arqlab and the Art|House gallery bar. The exhibition was on display from January 13th to 15th, 2012, in Thessaloniki, Greece. The theme of the exhibition was asking for proposals that would investigate the concept of private or personal space, like that of one’s own bedroom. Infrared focused on the idea of a filter the regulates what comes in and what stays out from such a personal space.

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amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS

Paris, France /// January 26, 2012

iris van HERPEN /// 2012 /// “Micro,” Paris Haute Couture

In addition to working with United Nude on a shoe titled Fang, Micro also saw van Herpen collaborating with designer Stephen Jones, artist Bart Hess, architect Isaie Bloch, and graphic designer Tara Doughans.

Fabrication of the Isaie Bloch assisted design was achieved on 3D printers at Materialise’s Belgian headquarters (using laser sintering),  metal plating giving the appearance of antique bronze to the final product.

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