Curated by Stefano Casciani & Patrick Chia, Organised by Industry+
My Role: Ideation, 3D generative CAD, Liaising with coordinators
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The MATr series was borne out of the constraints and the optimisation principles of 3D printing.
MATr envisions support structures as design objects.
MATr objects are produced in co-dependent, simultaneous birth.
MATr thinks of objects being manufactured within other objects.
MATr gives four products in the same print cycle of one.
While laser sintering allows for fantastical forms to be created, the freedom to push the limits of the design objects produced with such methods leads us to make objects that are too fragile to survive the printing process and the subsequent extraction from the printer. We reimagined the support structures that make these objects possible, as separate designed objects in their own right, giving rise to the manufacturing of objects within other objects.
The MATr objects support each other in their co-dependent, concurrent birth, enabling each other to be realised. The objects hold one another in positions that prevents breakage during production and post- process handling, and shelters one another like packaging structures and supports.
At the same time, because of their similar heights, producing all four of these nested objects together at one go incurs almost the same machine time and expenses as producing any one of the objects alone, giving good returns. Not surprisingly, manually arranging different objects from different projects so that they can be printed in one same machine cycle has already become an optimising practice in the 3D printing industry. MATr takes this further by becoming that object which is already in itself, an optimised nested arrangement of multiple objects for 3D printing production.
Each MATr yields a Basket, a Bowl, a Vase and a Lampshade.
Images: The Primary Studio
Exhibited at
2016.03 — MATr, NUS Open House
2016.01 — MATr, Singapore Arts Museum
2015.03 — MATr, Triennale Design Museum (Milan Design Week)
Press
2015.04 — Page 28, 灯的狂想曲 - Lianhe Zaobao
2015.04 — Singapore Design: The Alchemists Exhibition at Milan Design Week 2015 - designboom
