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Materials:Walnut, Powder Coated Aluminum, Corian

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This project was a response to the quality of materials used in the production of Ikeas’ furniture pieces. At first glance , some products seem nice but when once one begins to use them, they just don’t hold up to prolonged use, thus contributing to a disposable lifestyle. This table was taken from the Ikea showroom and stripped. Now, it sports nothing but clear shrink wrap.

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This bowl was developed through experimenting with a nested, self organizing cellular structure offered from packing pvc tubes together. Once the tubes are contained in a boundary, resin is cast to form a solid material. This new material is sliced three dimensionally showing the capacity of the circles to dynamically change shape.

Materials: PVC pipe, polyester resin

CNC machining is a subtractive process were material is cut away from existing stock to create objetcs.  Fused deposition modeling  (FDM), 3-d printing and stereolithography are additive processes where material is built up in layers to create objects. After the parts were “printed”  they  were then assembled.  No extra material was used. This was an experiment where we converted a CNC machine into a 3-d printer. First, a yoke was made to sleeve the router and hold plastic containers filled with an A-B  Polyurethane Foam mixture.  As the  cnc program ran, a valve was released which enabled the a-b compound to flow along the lines of the toolpath.  Once mixed the foam expanded to create the part.