An architecture “des humeurs”
architecture by R&Sie(n): François Roche and Stéphanie Lavaux with Stephan Henrich, Natanel Elfassy, Winston Hampel, Marc Fornes and François Jouve, mathematician
architecture by R&Sie(n): François Roche and Stéphanie Lavaux with Stephan Henrich, Natanel Elfassy, Winston Hampel, Marc Fornes and François Jouve, mathematician
"‘Une Architecture des Humeurs’, (‘An Architecture of Moods’) is a research project / exhibition in which R&Sie(n) architectual practice worked with a group of mathematicians, programmers, architects and a robotics designer to develop a computational approach to architecture based on biological and physiological data, obtained from visitors who are put through situations inciting repulsion, stress, and pleasure to conceive designs for housing units and urban fragments (or plans) based on relational protocols. The exhibition was shown at "Le Laboratorie" in Paris, a gallery and think tank that promotes the links between art and science in 2010.
The architectual models for 'An architecture “des humeurs”' shown here were fabricated through a process known as Selective Laser Sintering. Selective Laser Sintering is a one-step method of manufacturing a three dimensional object. Instead of producing several components and attaching them to one another, making moulds, or working a material to create the desired shape, with Selective Laser Sintering the object is built from the bottom up, without any additional tooling. In this method of manufacturing, a powder is hardened layer by layer by means of a laser mounted on a two-axis motorized control. The information regarding precisely where the material is to be hardened is fed to the laser and motors by a computer running Materialise’s proprietary software program, ‘Magics’. This program takes a CAD file – a three-dimensional drawing of the final product made on a computer – and digitally “slices” the drawing into thin layers which can be transmitted to the fabrication machine. Each slice is “drawn” by the laser on top of the previous slice until the object is complete. With Selective Laser Sintering, complex structures such as these can be created which would otherwise be impossible to manufacture.
How these models were made:
The pieces shown here were fabricated through a process known as Selective Laser Sintering. Selective Laser Sintering is a one-step method of manufacturing a three dimensional object. Instead of producing several components and attaching them to one another, making moulds, or working a material to create the desired shape, with Selective Laser Sintering the object is built from the bottom up, without any additional tooling. In this method of manufacturing, a powder is hardened layer by layer by means of a laser mounted on a two-axis motorized control. The information regarding precisely where the material is to be hardened is fed to the laser and motors by a computer running Materialise’s proprietary software program, ‘Magics’. This program takes a CAD file – a three-dimensional drawing of the final product made on a computer – and digitally “slices” the drawing into thin layers which can be transmitted to the fabrication machine. Each slice is “drawn” by the laser on top of the previous slice until the object is complete. With Selective Laser Sintering, complex structures such as these can be created which would otherwise be impossible to manufacture.
The architectual models for 'An architecture “des humeurs”' shown here were fabricated through a process known as Selective Laser Sintering. Selective Laser Sintering is a one-step method of manufacturing a three dimensional object. Instead of producing several components and attaching them to one another, making moulds, or working a material to create the desired shape, with Selective Laser Sintering the object is built from the bottom up, without any additional tooling. In this method of manufacturing, a powder is hardened layer by layer by means of a laser mounted on a two-axis motorized control. The information regarding precisely where the material is to be hardened is fed to the laser and motors by a computer running Materialise’s proprietary software program, ‘Magics’. This program takes a CAD file – a three-dimensional drawing of the final product made on a computer – and digitally “slices” the drawing into thin layers which can be transmitted to the fabrication machine. Each slice is “drawn” by the laser on top of the previous slice until the object is complete. With Selective Laser Sintering, complex structures such as these can be created which would otherwise be impossible to manufacture.
How these models were made:
The pieces shown here were fabricated through a process known as Selective Laser Sintering. Selective Laser Sintering is a one-step method of manufacturing a three dimensional object. Instead of producing several components and attaching them to one another, making moulds, or working a material to create the desired shape, with Selective Laser Sintering the object is built from the bottom up, without any additional tooling. In this method of manufacturing, a powder is hardened layer by layer by means of a laser mounted on a two-axis motorized control. The information regarding precisely where the material is to be hardened is fed to the laser and motors by a computer running Materialise’s proprietary software program, ‘Magics’. This program takes a CAD file – a three-dimensional drawing of the final product made on a computer – and digitally “slices” the drawing into thin layers which can be transmitted to the fabrication machine. Each slice is “drawn” by the laser on top of the previous slice until the object is complete. With Selective Laser Sintering, complex structures such as these can be created which would otherwise be impossible to manufacture.
