Shaper Origin is essentially an assisted router which could be used as a CNC. To begin you must tape up the surface with a special tape, this allows the machine to locate itself on the surface. Next is to scan the surface with the marked tape and then you push the machine around to get... Continue Reading →
What is GFRP Glass fiber reincforced polymer also known as glass fiber reinforced plastic is a composite material weaving fiber E-glass and polyester material together. It can range from a tensile strength of 44-2358MPa, and a compressive strength from 140-350Mpa while only weighing a quarter of the weight of steel. The woven material can be... Continue Reading →
A growing trend in Africa where the climate is hot and have drastic temperature differences. The light weight bamboo structure could be made out of locally available materials with a membrane inside, the condensation happening between day and night is captured in the membrane and stored as drinkable water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THJVuinPbc0 Special thanks to Koon V... Continue Reading →
Beautiful project by our Day Dreamers Design. A beautiful story celebrating the Mid-Autumn festival with a recycled pavilion. All very exclusion memories to Hong Kong people. I love the simple semi-sphere form reflected to a full moon. Modular construction using the water bottles and LED and secured with a triangulated mesh. Looking forward to their... Continue Reading →
Vesaluoma worked alongside architecture firm Astudio to create the Grown Structures series using mycelium, the vegetative part of a mushroom fungus. Vesaluoma, a student at London's Brunel University, developed a technique where the mycelium material is mixed with cardboard before being moulded into what he calls "mushroom sausages" using a tube-shaped cotton bandage. The long sausages are... Continue Reading →
Seamless integration between parametric design, fabrication and integration. Each snooker ball is a light where the wire mechanism is incremental, leaving on site workers to adjust each length and modify at will. Each snooker ball is fabricated the same to take advantage of economies of scale but the fitting can make it parametric. Beautiful!... Continue Reading →
Ever heard double curved surfaces are expensive to fabricate because a custom mould is required? This adaptive mould uses a lattice of pistons controlling the height of a lattice of points on a XY surface. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY5Bu3UTurM The process below seems to be using a heated material applied above a tensile layer. The heated material is... Continue Reading →
Innovative material technology throwing in Titanium Dioxide into concrete mix. This is also known as biodynamic cement. The chemical reaction is set off with reaction to UV light, this collects smog particles which are washed off when it rains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jyoA3MIf1c A field test in Manila produced phenomenal results: Each square meter of the module removed... Continue Reading →
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