Some architects dream of 3D-printing houses. Some even fantasise about 3D-printing entire cities. But what is the real potential of 3D printing for architects? This issue focuses on another strand of 3D-printing practice emerging among architects operating at a much smaller scale that is potentially more significant. Several architects have been working with the fashion industry to produce some exquisitely designed 3D-printed wearables. Other architects have been 3D-printing food, jewellery and other items at the scale of the human body. But what is the significance of this work? And how do these 3D-printed body-scale items relate to the discipline of architecture? Are they merely a distraction from the real business of the architect? Or do they point towards a new form of proto-architecture – like furniture, espresso makers and pavilions before them – that tests out architectural ideas and explores tectonic properties at a smaller scale? Or does this work constitute an entirely new arena of design? In other words, is 3D printing at the human scale to be seen as a new genre of ‘body architecture’? This issue contains some of the most exciting work in this field today, and seeks to chart and analyse its significance.
Contributors include: Paola Antonelli/Mo MA, Francis Bitonti, Niccolo Casas, Behnaz Farahi, Madeline Gannon, Eric Goldemberg/MONAD Studio, Kyle von Hasseln/3D Systems Culinary Lab, Rem D Koolhaas, Julia Krner, Neil Leach, Steven Ma/Xuberance, Neri Oxman/MIT Media Lab, Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, Gilles Retsin, Jessica Rosenkrantz/Nervous System, and Patrik Schumacher/Zaha Hadid Architects.
Tabella dei contenuti
About the Guest-Editors 05
Neil Leach and Behnaz Farahi
Introduction What is 3D-Printed Body Architecture? 06
Neil Leach
Dermi-Domus
A Grown Wardrobe for Bodies and Buildings 16
Neri Oxman
Curating the Digital
An Interview with Mo MA’s Paola Antonelli 26
Neil Leach
Interactions
Dialogues on Body, Protections and Derivatives 34
Niccolò Casas
Digitally Crafted Couture 40
Julia Koerner
Dress/Code
Democratising Design Through Computation and Digital Fabrication 48
Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg
Mass Customisation
Designed in China, Produced Globally 58
Steven Ma
Micromechanical Assemblies and the Human Body 64
Francis Bitonti
Reinventing Shoes
United Nude 70
Rem D Koolhaas
Size Matters
Why Architecture is the Future of 3D Printing 76
Neil Leach
Material Behaviours in 3D-Printed Fashion Items 84
Behnaz Farahi
Clay Bodies
Crafting the Future with 3D Printing 92
Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello
Crystalline Tectonics
An Architect’s Guide to 3D-Printing Sugar or Anything Else 98
Kyle von Hasseln
Tectonism in Architecture, Design and Fashion
Innovations in Digital Fabrication as Stylistic Drivers 106
Patrik Schumacher
The Shape of Touch
On-Body Interfaces for Digital Design and Fabrication 114
Madeline Gannon
The Sonic Spectacle of the Enhanced Body 120
Eric Goldemberg
Counterpoint Teapots, Dresses and Chairs 126
Gilles Retsin
Contributors 134
Circa l’autore
Neil Leach is a theorist and registered architect. He is currently Professor at the European Graduate School, Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD, FIU and Tongji University, and a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow. Leach is the editor of 4 books published by Wiley, including the recently published AD, Space Architecture: The New Frontier for Design Research. Overall he has published 27 books. He is currently working on a research project funded by NASA to develop a robotic fabrication technology to print structures on the Moon and Mars.
Behnaz Farahi is an architect, 3D printing expert and interaction designer, exploring the potential of interactive environments and their relationship to the human body).She has worked with leading firms such as Autodesk, Fuksas Studio, and 3DSystems/ will-i-am and collaborated on two NASA-funded research projects. She is currently an Artist in Residence at Autodesk, Pier 9, and an Annenberg Fellow and Ph D candidate in Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts.
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