(polyamide, bioresin, nylon, 2013-2014)
Award nomination:
Designer of the Year, Global British Awards, London, UK, 2014
Artist of the Year, Global British Awards, London, UK, 2014
Commissioned by the software-engineering company Autodesk (US) and the digital-manufacturers Shapeways (US), and with support of Dazed and Confused Magazine (UK) and SEED Organization Grant (UK).
With a team of engineers, we explored an integumentary system of animals, such as scales, claws and hairs, through experimental computational methods for 3D printing, creating skin appendages with CAD structures as small as 16 µm.
The 3D Printed pieces were created using three different software:: Autodesk 123D App: using 123D Catch App to capture / scan initial handmade shape; Maya (Autodesk): 3D computer graphics software used to reshape, resize and edit scanned 3D object; Rhino and Grasshopper: to build generative algorithms and used to add special textures and surfaces.
The pieces were printed using SLS (Selective laser sintering) additive manufacturing technique using Nylon (PA) material with a very smooth finish.
Developed with a help of Kristoffer Josefsson [Geometer, Specialist Modelling Group / Fosters + Partners], Lucianno Letteriello [Designer and Architect / Zaha Hadid Architects] and Octave Perrault [freelance architect].
Check Dazed and Confused Magazine video and feature about the project