I’ve Heard About...a fat, flat, growing urban environment
architecture by R&Sie(n): François Roche and Stéphanie Lavaux with Benoit Durandin and Stephan Henrich
architecture by R&Sie(n): François Roche and Stéphanie Lavaux with Benoit Durandin and Stephan Henrich
The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAM) invited François Roche to mount a solo show bringing into play his two organizations, one, R&Sie(n), a firm engaged in architectural practice and the other, New Territories, a research and publication project.
"I've Heard About" describes an emerging urban structure that integrates uncertainty into its own heartbeat. It brings together film, generative and computational procedures, scripts and algorithms, prototypes, models, and a social and relational Charta. In this new environment Roche envisions a programable robot, called a "viab" which constructs walls, ducts, cables, and pipes. The structures the viab produces is one that can be changed and customized based the instructions and needs of the people inside.
The architectual models for "I've Heard About..." 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.
"I've Heard About" describes an emerging urban structure that integrates uncertainty into its own heartbeat. It brings together film, generative and computational procedures, scripts and algorithms, prototypes, models, and a social and relational Charta. In this new environment Roche envisions a programable robot, called a "viab" which constructs walls, ducts, cables, and pipes. The structures the viab produces is one that can be changed and customized based the instructions and needs of the people inside.
The architectual models for "I've Heard About..." 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.
