Oxman, who trained as an architect, says buildings are designed today with an eye toward the components they can be made of—sheets of plywood, panes of glass, steel beams, and concrete columns. As a result, those designs are limited, in much the way Lego bricks constrain the shapes that children can build. There are similar limitations in conventional manufacturing; there are some shapes that simply can’t be built with existing molds and machining tools, and designers have had to design with these limits in mind. Oxman is exploring ways to break with conventional design thinking by looking to patterns and processes found in nature, and using equations that define these processes to generate new designs. The results are often surprising shapes and structures that can be made only with 3-D printers. technologyreview/news/426580/the-art-of-3-d-printing/
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:28:29 +0000
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