Parametric Design furniture
August 20, 2023
Michaela Crie Stone lives and works in Rockport, Maine, where she creates pieces that push the parameters of function by blurring the lines between art, craft, and design.
Commissioned by interior designer Kara Mann, Philipp Aduatz has created a large collection of custom-made 3D printed concrete furniture pieces for a private client in Chicago. For this project, Philipp Aduatz has cooperated with Austrian start-up incremental3d, which produced his ‘digital chaiselongue’ for Milan design week in 2018.
The biggest challenge and innovation for this project was to develop a suitable reinforcement technology to provide the load capacity for the design language of Philipp Aduatz. by its nature, concrete is a material with very little tensile strength; therefore, it should be reinforced. in this case, a customized semi-automatic strategy was developed.
The required pay loads had been calculated, tested and proved by the high performance of a specific combination of glass fiber rods and carbon textile reinforcement. This was visually perfectly integrated into the design. The commission consists of two large sofas, two chairs and a 24-foot-long bench divided into three segments. Each item has been produced in one piece with a minimum thickness, and has been placed in a permanent outdoor environment.
