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6. Computational Couture

RESEARCH & IDEATION

JULIA KOERNER

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IRIS VAN HERPEN

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PARAMETRIC ARCHITECTURE

Zaha Hadid Bjarke Ingels Group Bjarke Ingels Group Soumaya Museum,Cineteca Nacional taken by myself

REFERENCES & INSPIRATION

STEPHANIE JOHNSON

DINESH KUMAR

PREVIOUS WORK

As I wrote in the documentation process for the circular open source fashion week (3) I've been interested in doing something with Voronoi Pattern and play with it and get a little better step by step at my Grasshopper skills.

NATURE

Nature is definetely my inspiration for this project. Whenever I'm feeling overwhelmed, stressed or just lost, I love looking at the sky, the mountains and now (that I'm in Barcelona) the sea, it eases my mind and I feel relieved. We're not connected to nature, we're not part of nature, we're nature itself, and through the last years since the first industrial revolution I believe we've lost sight of it, so let's go back to our roots now, there's still time :) !!!

TOOLS

PROCESS

Before the design process, of course we all were taught how to use the 3d printers and the software properly, this was very nice as I already have experience 3d printing it was so useful to have someone to answer the questions I may have for quiet a time!

1.LOOK AT PREVIOUS STUDENT'S SAMPLES

After the lectures our local instructor, Petra, showed some of the samples that students from previous years have done, and it was really cool to see the results from different techniques, I believe that gave us some great ideas to understand how each technique works and what would be the best for our ideas!

2.SKETCH SOME IDEAS

At first I had two ideas, one 3d printing in TPU without using fabric and another 3d printing in TPU but using fabric, the first one is an image sample of a picture or anything I like and use Grasshopper to make a pattern that will create the image, the second one was to 3d print on fabric two voronois as it is a friendly pattern to work with and I thought it would look cool to overlap two voronois of different sizes with fabric between them :)

3.PLAY AROUND WITH GRASSHOPPER

4. BAKE & CHECK THE GEOMETRY IS OKAY

5. PREPARE THE FILE FOR 3D PRINTING

6. PRINT & PRAY

I chose Mesh as the fabric I wanted to 3d print on, because we were told that it would hold better the material so it doesn't ccome off that easily after being printed, and I liked a lot that you could see both Voronoi patterns from both sides of the fabric and it kind of gives a perspective effect so one voronoi looks far away and the one on top looks closer. It was very cool!!!

3D Models

Fabrication files


  1. File: 3d modelling of mannequin 

  2. File: Laser cut sheets 

  3. File: additional models