The Wee Flower Vase...

A small (wee) vase made of 3D printed brass...

Digital Wabi-Sabo Vase (Tokyo Edition)...

A design using the FDM (Fused Deposition Manufacturing) technology in its fabrication. Here the design also uses the, usually discarded, support material as a key component in the final design. 

This design could not be made - or is inherently dependent - on this fabrication technology...

The Secret Fruit Bowl...

The Secret Fruit Bowl...

Made of Daly Limestone.

CNC milled, hand finished. 

The Piippu Cigar Ashtray...

Pluntta Cream Pitcher...

A cream pitcher, inspired by Nordic drinking flasks, made out of 3D printed porcelain...

The Salt Tower...

The Salt Tower
3D printed plaster, clay, salt, paint; base made of CNC milled marble. 

It's estimated that 99% of potable water in Qatar is desalinated sea water, a process that requires 5 litres of oil per each cubic meter of treated water. Most desalination plants are located along the country's west coast, resulting in the adjacent sea being approximately 30% more saline than the country's east coast. 

The design of the Salt Tower was catalyzed by the aforementioned. Placed by Qatar's west coast, the design is surrounded by a salt farm, which provides the raw material - the bricks - that make up the bulk of the Salt Tower's walls. Here, however, the tectonic support is, in a sense, 'reversed', and is actually provided by the gridded 'mortar' that surrounds the hollows that support the salt bricks. Maintaining this wall of salt would require constant upkeep. The salt farm provides the material, human labour would be needed to both fabricate the bricks and to patch the cavities resulting from seasonal rains and general erosion. The tower would act as a constant quantified reminder of the energy and effort required to provide us with one of our most basic needs.

Sketch of the Salt Tower...

Screen-shots from Maysaa's Films...

A few screen-shots from two recent short-films Maysaa's made using some of our furniture and product designs as McGuffins...

Three Column Pitcher...

The Three Column Pitcher, made of 3D printed porcelain... 

The Skew Pitcher...

The Skew Pitcher, made of 3D printed porcelain...

The Precious Snowball Container (PSBC)...

The Precious Snowball Container (PSBC), from the Affective Artifacts Collection...

Made of 3D printed porcelain.

The Three Muses Bracelet...

A bracelet of three interlocked/ hinged silver rings, which can be worn by a single individual or, in its unfolded state, by two BFFs... 

The hinges were 'printed' into each other (no assembly required)... 

The design was inspired by the three core muses in the AI family... 

Made of 3D printed silver... 

Hand models: Mona Makhlouf and Norah Al-Shammari.

Mini-Architecture Model - the Converging Pavilion

A small 3D printed brass model of the 'Converging Pavilion' design...

A gif of the above design...

Architects Independent Presentation at the Doha Fire Station...

Join us on Monday, March 27 at 6.30 pm at the Doha Fire-Station for our presentation titled:
 
Intrepid Architects Independent
Ardent Explorations of 3D Printing, Design, Architecture & Beyond... 

Portrait by Markus Elblaus

The Truss Doorstop from our Super Superfluous Collection...

The design is made of 3D printed plated metal... 

The Big Ear Cream Pitcher & Big Eye Condiment Dispenser...

The Big Ear Cream Pitcher and the Big Eye Condiment Dispenser...

Made of 3D printed porcelain...

Silver Ruler...

A 3D printed silver ruler, showing, full centimeters on one side, half centimeters on the second side, and quarter centimeters on the third side...

3D Printed 'Pergola' Monocle...

A 3D printed bronze-plated metal monocle with a pergola (to assist the eyelashes with the monumental task of shading the eye from the intense middle-eastern sun)... 

The Comet Vase...

Another project from the archives. The Comet Vase was an early attempt at making something both 'practical' as well as directly reflective/ innate to the means of fabrication. In this instance FDM was used to make the design. 

In an early rendition of the vase the stl file geometry was faulty, resulting in the top end of the piece being partially unwound, a 'fault' that was allowed to remain and become a feature in the final design. 

The vase consists of a set of hollow, extruded, tear-drop-shaped, cylinders or pipes that have an opening at the top, and taper to a thin tip at the bottom. The vase is supported by three evenly spaced cylinders supporting the units above...

Currently we've in the process of recreating this design to be remade out of metal, or a metal finish, material...

Watch this blog... 

Architure...

A few years back whilst still in London we did a project titled 'Architure' - a portmanteau of the words, Architecture and Furniture. The project included a set of sketches and watercolors of a set of designs that we're conceived for artifacts in the scale of furniture, but using the means and language of architecture (in miniature) in their realization. Many of the pieces were designed to be made through various additive fabrication (3D Printing) technologies utilizing the meat & bone technique (using the default support materials and methods that accompany many of the main related technologies as components in the final design). The included piece was made using miniature architectural elements intended for making (very detailed) replica dollhouses. The design in the photos included the use of materials such as miniature red-bricks, lead, brass, concrete, steel, MDF, and tar. 

Unfortunately the included piece has been lost. Neither have we been able to locate any of the accompanying watercolors that also were shown in the below exhibition.

The design was realized in collaboration with Paul Brady of our sister-company Independent Architects (who was kind enough to dig through, and find, the images included in this blog-submission), and Miguel Turrao, who mainly built the piece below...