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Chilean studio Great Things to People (gt2P) has built a machine to generate pottery objects using an analogue version of parametric design.

The Catenary Pottery Printer by gt2P comprises a wooden frame from which sheets of gauze, muslin or lycra can be suspended and used to slip-cast ceramics.

Liquid clay, or slip, is poured into the fabric and allowed to drip through, leaving a thin layer behind that hardens into a small dish.

Where digital parametric design would generate forms depending on the behaviour of a computer algorithm in response to a set of data, their system generates forms depending on the behaviour of the textile in response to a set of physical conditions.

As with digital parametric design, different results can be achieved by altering the set of variables – in this case factors including the position and number of anchor points for the fabric, stretchiness of the textile selected, the weight and amount of liquid slip, or drying times and viscosity of the type of clay.

“This is part of an exploration on how to create standard machines that generate non-standard results, mixing analogue numerical control with traditional material and techniques integrated in one real-time process,” said Guillermo Parada of gt2P, adding that “parametric design is not necessarily a digital computation methodology.”

“This project gives us a new scope – more parametric, less digital – allowing us to speak about parametric design without computers and digital fabrication laboratories which generates dialogues from academic contexts to communities of artisans,” he continued.

The designers have used the machine to make tableware, candle-holders and lamps, and suggest that the process could be scaled-up to make larger objects like furniture using lost-wax casting or resin.

Photos are by Victor Imperiale.

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Focus sur le studio Les Ateliers Guyon qui ont imaginé ce projet et modèle de chaise splendide appelée « Hanging Chair ». Présentée au Alt Hotel à Halifax, cette création d’une grande élégance faite d’acier et de cuir permet d’être en suspension en intérieur. Le tout est à découvrir en images dans la suite.

Avec ce projet intitulé « Edison », le designer français Damien Urvoy nous propose une lampe au design minimaliste avec une base en bois et une rallonge intégrée qui permet grâce à un système ingénieux de transporter la lampe. Plus d’images et de détails dans la suite de l’article.

Swiss designer Florian Hauswirth has designed a collection of bedroom furniture including an ash shelving unit with components made by a bookbinder.

The three-tier Bookbinder Shelf by Florian Hauswirth features two ladder-like oak side frames and four shelves, joined by wooden components that hook under the side struts.

“It is a simple system with two screws per plank, which you don’t need an instruction manual to put together,” said Hauswirth.

The shelving unit can be enclosed by adding coloured panels to the ends or flaps with tabs to the front, which were made of cardboard covered with textile by a bookbinder.

“I adapted this craft and applied it to my furniture design,” he said. “It is somehow logical for a bookshelf to incorporate a bookbinding technique.”

His Bedroom Collection also features a bed and storage box for small items kept beside it.

The Radius Edge Bed features a simple curved joint on the legs. “Wooden joints are usually quite sharp and edgy, but as a tree is round it seems logical to break this craft tradition,” explained Hauswirth.

The Bedbox is made in the same materials as the panels for the shelving unit. It features a flap on the top for storing a mobile phone and a drawer that pulls out from the front.

Hauswirth previously worked at Vitra and studied industrial design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. He currently works as a designer and teacher in Beil, Switzerland.

Photography is by Stefan Hoffmann.

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Thin latex casts from derelict buildings hang in this installation by Amsterdam design studio KNOL Ontwerp to form ghostly recreations of the spaces they were taken from (+ slideshow).

Skinned is a growing collection of latex sheets cast from buildings and streets that can be cut, folded up and taken elsewhere by Jorien Kemerink, who founded KNOL Ontwerp with Celine de Waal Malefijt in 2009.

The material creates a translucent copy of the architectural details but also captures some of the dirt. “The history of use is caught in the cast,” says Kemerink. “Like skin transplantations, they can be taken to other spaces where they get new spatial meaning.”

She particularly finds the process useful when designers or creatives take over a vacant building for a short space of time.

“When a vacant building is being reused again, you often encounter dirty or decayed spaces,” she explains. “The latex provides you with a way to ‘seal’ all the dirt and put a clean layer on top, making the place instantly useable.”

“When you leave again the parts that you want to preserve can be cut out, folded and taken to new locations,” she adds.

Kemerink recently taught a class at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China, where she worked with students to make casts of places in the city.

“This project looks at the emotional connection that people have with a space,” she said. “My dream is to collect more and more special places in various places all over the world.”

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