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Organically Emerging Hardware


Here is an exam­ple of the 5-axis milling used to extract the organ­i­cally mod­eled door hard­ware pro­duced at the past Oganic Fab­ri­ca­tions Work­shop at the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan Taub­man Col­lege. More exam­ples to come soon.

Organic Fabrications Workshop 2

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Bran­don Clif­ford and Wes McGee are to instruct the Oganic Fab­ri­ca­tions Work­shop at the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan Taub­man Col­lege on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day Jan­u­ary 28–29, 2012.

This sec­ond install­ment in the work­shop will build on work done in the first work­shop, though par­tic­i­pa­tion in the first is not a per-requisite for attend­ing.  The Organic Fab­ri­ca­tions work­shop is ded­i­cated to advanc­ing com­plex mod­el­ing and mak­ing of organic geome­tries.  We will under­stand the prin­ci­ples of sur­face cur­va­ture, as well as pro­mote the con­trol of these prin­ci­ples to resolve our geome­tries with con­straints.  The work­shop will then trans­late these prin­ci­ples into fab­ri­ca­tion meth­ods.  T-Splines for Rhino will serve as the plat­form for these operations.

If you are a mem­ber of the TCAUP com­mu­nity and would like to attend, please sign up here.  Space is limited.

Malleable Manifesto Published in Plat

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We are pleased to announce that “The Mal­leable Man­i­festo no.1″ has been pub­lished by Plat Jour­nal in issue 1.5.

Organic Fabrications Workshop

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Bran­don Clif­ford and Wes McGee are to instruct the Oganic Fab­ri­ca­tions Work­shop at the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan Taub­man Col­lege on Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 29, 2011.

This work­shop is ded­i­cated to advanc­ing com­plex mod­el­ing and mak­ing of organic geome­tries.  We will under­stand the prin­ci­ples of sur­face cur­va­ture, as well as pro­mote the con­trol of these prin­ci­ples to resolve our geome­tries with con­straints.  The work­shop will then trans­late these prin­ci­ples into fab­ri­ca­tion meth­ods.  T-Splines for Rhino will serve as the plat­form for these operations.

If you are a mem­ber of the TCAUP com­mu­nity and would like to attend, please sign up here.  Space is limited.

Ply Shelves for Sale on FAB.com

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Our Ply Shelves will be on sale this Tues­day (Sep­tem­ber 20, 2011) on Fab.com.

Brandon Clifford Wins SOM Prize

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We are proud to announce, Bran­don has been selected as this years win­ner of the 2011 SOM Prize by the SOM Foun­da­tion and will recieve a funded travel fel­low­ship.  He will use this oppor­tu­nity to expand the cur­rent research in stereotomy.  To learn more click here.

Ply Shelves win AZ Award

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Mat­ter is pleased to announce our Ply Shelves have been awarded both a jury selected and peo­ples choice AZ Award.  To learn more or pur­chase your own Ply Shelf, visit C.W. Keller Fur­ni­ture.

the Malleablists to present at Center for Architecture

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The Mal­leab­lists (mem­bers of the Archiprix Inter­na­tional team Mal­leable Man­hat­tan, lead by Bran­don Clif­ford) have been selected to present their man­i­festo at the Cen­ter for Archi­tec­ture this Fri­day, June 8th at 4:30 pm.  The Mal­leab­lists move­ment is ded­i­cated to re-imagining the role of the archi­tect in an ever chang­ing society.

(top) ren­der­ing by Melanie Ham­mer | (bot­tom) detail by Rodrigo Rodrigo Gar­cía González

Periscope Published in Fabricate

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Periscop: Foam Tower has been pre­sented and pub­lished at Fab­ri­cate 2011 — a dig­i­tal fab­ri­ca­tion con­fer­ence.   ‘FABRICATE: Mak­ing Dig­i­tal Archi­tec­ture’ , is now avail­able to the public.

Foam Advocates Published in Pidgin 9

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We are please to announce Foam Advo­cates has been pub­lished in Issue 9 of Pid­gin Mag­a­zine.

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