Solid T1 Table
Patrick Jouin
Patrick Jouin
painted epoxy resin (built through Stereolithography); hollow structure filled with polyurethane and glass
29" H x 26" diameter (base)
Limited edition of 30.
The T1 Table was originally designed in 2004. The design was not realized until 2009 with #1/30 being exhibited at the Moss booth at Design Miami/ 2009.
Please inquire at info@moss-gallery.com
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In 2004, French designer Patrick Jouin first became aware of the then still highly experimental manufacturing technique, Additive Layered Fabrication, and began collaborating with the pioneering Belgian company Materialise. This collaboration resulted in a groundbreaking collection, Solid. Up until that moment, these manufacturing techniques, then referred to as Rapid Prototyping, had only been used for small-scale models. The processes were used primarily to create prototypes of objects to be eventually manufactured in other materials. This seminal collection emphasized the endless possibilities and great potential these remarkable manufacturing techniques could add to the repertoire of design.
Stereolithography:
A thin layer of liquid plastic is spread over a platform in a large tank. A laser beam is then directed into the liquid, (guided by the CAD design file and the Magics software), solidifying the areas it comes in contact with. As each layer is completed, the platform holding the newly solidified layer shifts down a calculated thickness, and the process begins again: a new layer of liquid is spread, a laser beam hardens specific points in the liquid, and the platform and completed layers of the object move down yet again. In this way, layer by layer, an object is “drawn” in the liquid by the beam, with each new layer being hardened onto the previous layer. Once the object is fully built, it is raised out of the tank by the supporting platform – much like a submarine rising to the surface of the water – and the excess liquid flows away.
The T1 Table was originally designed in 2004. The design was not realized until 2009 with #1/30 being exhibited at the Moss booth at Design Miami/ 2009.
Please inquire at info@moss-gallery.com
MORE IMAGES
In 2004, French designer Patrick Jouin first became aware of the then still highly experimental manufacturing technique, Additive Layered Fabrication, and began collaborating with the pioneering Belgian company Materialise. This collaboration resulted in a groundbreaking collection, Solid. Up until that moment, these manufacturing techniques, then referred to as Rapid Prototyping, had only been used for small-scale models. The processes were used primarily to create prototypes of objects to be eventually manufactured in other materials. This seminal collection emphasized the endless possibilities and great potential these remarkable manufacturing techniques could add to the repertoire of design.
Stereolithography:
A thin layer of liquid plastic is spread over a platform in a large tank. A laser beam is then directed into the liquid, (guided by the CAD design file and the Magics software), solidifying the areas it comes in contact with. As each layer is completed, the platform holding the newly solidified layer shifts down a calculated thickness, and the process begins again: a new layer of liquid is spread, a laser beam hardens specific points in the liquid, and the platform and completed layers of the object move down yet again. In this way, layer by layer, an object is “drawn” in the liquid by the beam, with each new layer being hardened onto the previous layer. Once the object is fully built, it is raised out of the tank by the supporting platform – much like a submarine rising to the surface of the water – and the excess liquid flows away.
