Thursday, January 26, 2012

Stackable Bowl&Tray Interrupted...



An additional design submission from the Interrupted Design series, where the FDM fabrication process is intentionally interrupted mid-build to reveal the inner support structures, a feature that consequently becomes a key characteristic of the final design... The stackable bowls and trays have all their particular, often quite subtle, variations in function, use and execution, a list of which is included below... The connection point of the bowls and trays are uniform, and can be stacked in any sequence desired... 





 Shallow Bowl - with a removable partition

Thin Tray/ Lid - with a large perforated top (good for draining or cooling food on top) 

 Deep Bowl - same digital model as the bowl above, only here the fabrication process was allowed to proceed further 

Thick Lid/ Tray - same as the lid above, only here with a thicker, more insulated, base

Sushi Plate - with concavities for soya sauce, wasabi and pickled ginger (along with an area for sushi or sashimi pieces) 

Tray/ Cover for the Sushi Plate - with its own central pedestal for any more celebratory pieces

Spout Bowl - a bowl with a small spout 

 Ring Tray/ Cover/ Plate - with a wide perforated ring, allowing both the display of fine food on top of the surface as well as within it

Grind Bowl - here the bowl build was 'completed' but, in post-production, selectively ground-down to (re)reveal the inner grid

Plan view of the Grind Bowl 

The Sushi Plate and Tray/ Cover

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Abandoned Garage, Kuwait...


A few photos from an abandoned garage in Kuwait, located on a site next to the, now demolished, Al Salam building, a stone-throw away from SAM Street...
















Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The 3 - 3D - 3 Plan at the F for Faculty Exhibition at VCUQ, Qatar...



A few images from my contribution to the F for Faculty exhibition at VCUQ... 

The exhibit presents a set of three projects, realized using of FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) - a 3D printing technology, in three different scales... All designs take advantage and explore the technology's inherent, both conceptual (CAD based) and physical (material/ fabrication based) attributes and peculiarities... 

All displayed designs were fabricated at the VCUQ FabLab...

For more examples exhibited at the gallery please click here... 

The F for Faculty exhibition concludes on January 21...


 The 1:50, 1:10 and 1:1 display pedestals

 Tom at 1:1, 1:10 and 1:50 (Photo by Ben Jurgensen)

Close up of Tom at 1:10 

Close up of Tom at 1:50 

 The Castle Vase from the Meat & Bone series


A 1:1 tray (to be featured in more detail in a future submission) using both the Meat & Bone and Design Interrupted techniques 

The 1:10 model of the Book-Corner-Seat

A 1:10 model of the Grid Shelving/ Seat/ Partition unit (currently unbuilt) 

Above and Below: A 1:50 model for a pavilion design for the La Fontaine Art Center in Manama. The roof grid accommodates a set of wooden profiles that can be adjusted according to season/ pavilion function/ whim... More of the design in a future blog submission...


Sunday, January 8, 2012

F - For Faculty Exhibition at VCUQ, Qatar...

 Benjamin Jurgensen's Walking Scan, 2011 (MDF, linen, acrylic, ABS, printed vinyl)


A few images, shown in no particular order, from the, still ongoing, F for Faculty exhibition here at VCUQ... 

I'm also showing some work in the exhibition, but which I'll talk/ show more about in a future blog submission... 

The exhibition ends on January 21, 2012... 


Jordan Gushwa's Untitled, 2011 (Photography, large scale inkjet print) 

Jesse Paine's Ismil Azzam, 2011 (Graphite & varnish on paper, mounted on panel) 

Donald Early's Ask, 2010 (Oil on canvas) 

Don Crow's Chair Six/ Chair Seven, 2011 (Laser engraved acrylic on board) 

Ruth Bolduan's Lanscape with Red Bush, 2009/ Sealine, 2011/ Abandoned Village, 2011/ Monterey Bay, 2011 (Oil on canvas) 

Roman Turczyn's Ochre Wall, Blue Door, 2011 (Watercolor) 

 Leland Hill's Six and Six, 2011 (Gouache and stencil on canvas)

Michael Hersrud's Space Ship: Earth One, 2011 (Digital print and giclee paint) 

Simone Muscolino's Moving Postcards 2004-2011 (Multimedia). Here one has to insert one of the cardboard postcard into the slot in the pedestal to initiate a short film about the images featured on the cards... 

 Sarah Lauck's Untitled, 2011 (Video). See it by clicking here... 

Muneera Umedaly-Spence's Small Simple Drawings, 2010-2011 (Graphite and permanent marker on wood) 

River Montijo's Genetic Enhancement No. 1 Monkey Hatrack, 2011 (Papier mache) 

 Rhys Himsworth's Avatar 2, 2001 (Duotoned lithograph)


Della Reams' (Arabic monograph by Maryam Althani, table by Johan Granberg), Maryam Dress, 2011 (Digital surface design machine knitted and sewn) 

Peter Martin's Inquire of Me, 2011 (Lego bricks) 

Maja Kinnemark's Hi, I'm UFO. would you like to take me home? Work in progress (MDF, fabric, upholstery)

The outside view of the gallery