To cast 60 tonnes of metal, the VX9000 prints the empty space around it first
The VX9000 does not print the giant metal component. It prints its sand mold, and that detour is what cuts an announced ten-week preparation to about two.
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A student pavilion built to leave the square
The student pavilion Paso Nara makes digital fabrication leave the render: CNC parts, public assembly, planned dismantling and a trip to Mextrópoli.
The 48 apartments are occupied. CO-HATY's real test starts after the keys
In Ukraine, CO-HATY has moved from emergency dormitories to apartments managed for the long term. Its own reports reveal what that shift changes, and what remains unproven.
A Formula 1 trophy in Delft porcelain — with a lion that glows
For the final Dutch Grand Prix, Royal Delft and Anouk Wipprecht slipped an electroluminescent material inside a hand-painted trophy: four centuries of earthenware meeting the asphalt of Zandvoort.
When a chair becomes a piece of kumihimo
In Red Craft, Kenta Yoshizawa does not simply place four traditional materials on contemporary shapes. He lets their constraints decide what the objects become.
The pattern is designed for satin stitch, not for the screen
HANAITO uses a digital tool to compose flowers, but the pattern is judged by what satin stitch does to it: volume, shine and material.
Three dead Wii Remotes, one controller willing to come back
Three Wii Remotes damaged by leaking alkaline cells, insects and corrosion become a triage exercise: identify salvageable boards, clean, measure and rebuild one usable controller.
In Toronto, public furniture starts with a pile of bricks
On Ookwemin Minising, GXN and Ha/f did not design a pop-up first and order the materials later. They began with what Toronto already had available.
MillieBot wants a failure to be no bigger than the part you reprint
MillieBot splits its printed body into replaceable modules and promises an editable FreeCAD assembly. The mechanical idea is sound, although the public source trail is still hard to audit.
This lamp grows around its own skeleton
GOURDO combines mycelium and luffa to grow part of its structure. More than a “natural” object, the prototype shows what manufacturing with biology forces a designer to control.