Composite Prototyping

Site: Brooklyn, NY

Critic: Brian Ringley

Date: Pratt GAUD SP14

Team: +Erik Nevala-Lee

This project examines the integration of parametric software with CNC manufacturing and explores the designer’s unprecedented direct link between the digital model and the physical artefact. The concept of “threshold” is explored on both ends of the process - both by setting up thresholds at which fields of parametric components transform across a part based on functional requirements, and again later by examining the thresholds at which parametric systems and CNC-manufacturability (draft angle, tool reach etc) either break down or open up new possibilities.

The product is an architectural composite assembly capable of certain performances benchmarks such as stability, plyability, bending and transparency.