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.

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

We are pleased to introduce Coat Rack — our next furniture item.  It is currently in the prototyping phase and we look forward to sharing more documentation soon.

The workshop with Wes McGee [ matter design studio / Taub­mann Col­lege of Archi­tec­ture ] and Dave Pigram [ supermanouvre / university of technology sydney] explores the idea of funicular structures coupled with the robotic hotwire cutting process. Hotwire cutting is a highly effective and relatively novel approach to the production of volume and is highly effective in the production of volumetric elements of EPS foam. The workshop explores the potential of EPS formwork while revisiting the idea of half-timber structures. Part of the formwork will be come structural, part of it remains within the structure, part of the formwork will be disposed off / recycled.

The workshop is open to a limited number of external students at a reasonable fee of €150, including workshop materials.

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.

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

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.

The Temporal Tenancy installation is a prototype for a rapidly customizable method of making.  This method employs robotically hot-wire cut EPS foam blocks with a raceway to allow for post tensioning.  These blocks are not permanently fastened together, but rather temporarily compressed by a cable.  When the site requires a different function, size, or scale of time, these cables can be released and the blocks will drop with the intention of being recycled and prepared for their next architectural manifestation.

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.