In a sea of derivative modern furniture, Duo imagines a series of home furnishings realigned to the study of materials and their various cutting edge manufacturing processes, much as the early modernists did at the Bauhaus when the icons of design that mark the 20th century were developed.
This series creates internal spatial drama from a 3D-printed envelope. While 3D-printing can be seen as a prototyping methodology, it can also be the means for production. Here the technology of melting and laying down layers is tested with “unmouldable” forms. Formal operations such as folds, tapering, the articulation of joints, and curvature carry intuitive structural properties that carry into the process of 3D-printing, with new challenges to be confronted based on the material and the technology.
Duo is a simple pairing of materials for this century.
View of bowl and diagram illustrating curvature
Sections through Bowl
Planimetric drawings to illustrate progression of form
