Week 1 : Digital Fabrication Research

 This assignment is to do research on inspirational Digital Fabrication pieces / Architecture.

1. Casa Batllo designed by Antoni, Gaudi, 1904-1906.

 

"Casa Batllo." Casa Batllo Gaudi Barcelona. www.casabatllo.es/en/antoni-gaudi/casa-batllo/facade/.

"Casa Batllo." modernisme barcellona, www.rutadelmodernisme.net/route/gaudi-route/casa-batllo/.

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Casa Batlló Barcelona – How to Visit Gaudi’s Modernist Masterpiece." Barcelona Hacks, barcelonahacks.com/casa-batllo/.

 This building is being renovated with design of Antonio Gaudi. He applied his famous use of organic form all over the building including the interiors. And I thought this is very fascinating by its unconventional look of the building.

2. Exobiology Collection Ica Paru and Kostika Spaho. Nyron, 3D Printed.

 

Designed by Ica Paru and Kostika Spaho, these shoes are made of nylon and digitally fabricated. From the designers' statement, using 3D-printing, they could make shoes that are more fit to individuals and that brings comfortableness for people who wear those. At the same time, they could adopt highly organic design to shoes. Bottom line, by adopting 3D-fabrication design, they could solve conventional shoes' problem.

3. Macau's Morpheus Hotel, designed by Zaha Hadid  

This building is inspired by the Chinese tradition of jade carving, to sculpt and create voids. This is the world's first free-form exoskeleton and maximized the external facade to give light and views to each one of the rooms. This was one of the problem that has to be solved design-wise. With exoskeleton structure, the building's support structures are outside, and that creates interiors that aren't interrupted by vertical supports. Composed of structural steel and coated in aluminum. I chose this building to introduce since I thought the structure is very unique and it was solving a lot of problems with its unique design.

 

4. Queen Ramonda's crown and shoulder mantle for the 2018 film Black Panther and Setae Jacket by Julia Koerner.

Unique and delicate design, letting the work to adopt informal shape and great details in the shape. 

This piece features an intricate network of multi colored 3D-printed bristles that mimic the hairlike setae structures found on the wings of the Madagascan Sunset Butterfly. The artist developed an algorithm which can read those images and translate the colors into the geometries which were then 3D-printed directly onto the fabric.