pattern & material & fabrication

How does design lead to industrial manufacturing?
If we use digital craft, can we fabricate something which follows the foam model?And how do we relate this model to material and substance?
Can patterns be applied to load bearing surfaces with complex shapes?

Here we are talking about an evolution of the manufacturing system towards the industrialized “one-of a kind”, a new way of mass-customization of “true art” on any scale from products to architecture.
It is a new concept of luxury linked to the craft and techniques of transforming materials, seen already in the beginning of last century, a revolutionary tradition of craftsmanship in the emerging laboratories such as the “Werkstaetten”, the “Werkbund”, or the “art deco assemblier” unfolding in different cities in Northern Europe.

If we explore the characteristics of material and the making, then for the reason to understand also the particularity of their surfaces, which is not only a wrapper, but deep structure as well.

The possibilities offered by new fabrication technologies permit great freedom to give an organization to material first, which in a second step is conferring a new skin to objects. It seems another evolution with respect to the designs of two dimensional decorations, as one suggests three dimensional surfaces with aspects of dynamic and tactile repetitions of geometries, stimulating effects that often surprise and stir emotions. At our hands are now lasers for carving embroidery motifs, but also technologies which insert new materials to enhance the textures, leading not only to a visual but more so to a multi-sensory nature of materials in general.

Ornament is a part of the world, and it cannot help but but resurface, reinvented, with a strong communicative thrust. (Alessandro Mendini, Writings 2004)

In the prototyping phase, students will experiment with materials in order to permit the evaluation of design variations and, or to test an assembly.

Reading:
Mori, Immaterial-Ultramaterial
Addington, Smart Materials
Detail:
-Laeden und Verkauf

Assignm.:
research on mobile room dividers - paravents, (contemporary and past époques such as oriental Arabic, Indian, african etc..); images min. 144dpi, reference to project name, book reference.
design , material selection & single component (prototype assembly, composition must be made clear and readable with additional drawings, renderings) fabrication of one paravent or interior space divider. Typical dimensions are 180x60x4cm or 130x90x8cm

ref
http://www.armanicasa.com/armani_casa_index.html
furniture complements:
http://www.armanicasa.com/index.jsp?language=en&site=AH&movieSession=armani_casa.swf&audio=acceso

http://www.paravent-art.de/

Print:
11/2x17” productsheets for each of the two products
Digital:
productsheets in .pdf in letter size, saved to the folder.
Fabricate: scale model 1:5