3D-printed body architecture /
Some architects dream of 3D-printing houses. Some even fantasise about SD-printing entire cities. But what is the real potential of 3D printing for architects? This issue focuses on another strand of 3D-prindng practice emerging among architects operating at a much smaller scale that is potentially...
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John Wiley & Sons,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
Publication Dates: | [2017] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Architectural design ;
volume 87, number 06 Profile ; number 250 |
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Summary: |
Some architects dream of 3D-printing houses. Some even fantasise about SD-printing entire cities. But what is the real potential of 3D printing for architects? This issue focuses on another strand of 3D-prindng 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 SD-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. |
Item Description: | "November / December 2017." |
Carrier Form: | 136 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: |
9781119340188 1119340187 |
Index Number: | TS171 |
CLC: | TS853 |
Call Number: | TS853/T531-1 |
Contents: |
What is 3-D printed body architecture? / Dermi-Domus, a grown wardrobe for bodies and buildings / Curating the digital, an interview with MoMA's Paola Antonelli / Interactions, Dialogues on body, protections and derivatives / Digitally crafted couture / Dress/code, democratising design through computation and digital fabrication / Mass customisation, designed in China, produced globally / Micromechanical assemblies and the human body / Reinventing shoes, United Nude / Size matters, why architecture is the future of 3D printing / Material behaviours in 3D-printed fashion items / Clay bodies, crafting the future with 3D printing / Crystalline tectonics, an architect's guide to 3D-printing sugar or anything else / Tectonism in architecture, design and fashion, innovations in digital fabrication and stylistic drivers / The shape of touch, on-body interfaces for digital design and fabrication / The sonic spectacle of the enhanced body / Teapots, dresses and chairs / |