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A project in Selective laser syntering (SLS) Rapid prototyping
Below you find the project Cobra, an LED table lamp explained in a 7 min tutorial I made on SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) a rapid prototyping process which builds models up in layers by lasering only the parts that need to be solidified. It is an affordable process to model up prototypes or forms which would be difficult to produce with standard manufacturing processes. SLS builds up your model in Nylon which results in a fairly strong object which leaves many possibilities for post processing and finishes such as lacquering or metal plating. The dimensions for an SLS build depends on the capacity of the machine that will build it so make sure you check these dimensions first.
The movie is 27MB so please be patient for it to load.
For more technical information on the process you can try these following links:
More information on Selective laser sintering: http://www.3trpd.co.uk/architecture/pdf/architectural-brochure.pdf
More information on Metal laser sintering: http://www.3trpd.co.uk/pdf/DMLS%20Brochure.pdf
More information on 3D Printing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing
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She-Longue at the exhibition
So slowly I will be posting processes and images of the work I did for the exhibition at the end of last month. Below you already find a photo of the She-longue at the exhibition newly upholstered in a combination of velvet and rabbit hide which was cut in horizontal patterns. I don’t have professional photographs yet. With my recent move I didn’t have the time yet. Once I am settled I will set things in motions to get better imagery.
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Japanese boundaries: A different way of perceiving space
In Japan symbolism, signs, movement, subtle indications or even education can be found as a boundary for space. This may elude the visiting westerner as he is used to the physical barriers which forcefully indicate his course. It does not necessarily mean that the only barriers we westerners recognise are physical, but the sensitivity towards none physical borders is of a different nature compared with the Japanese.
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Building works and the intrusiveness into personal life
One of the most intrusive actions into private life one willingly engages into is home renovation or building work.
Most of us will agree that building work in one’s home rarely happens without the necessary amount of stress. Apart from the fact one has to deal with the construction details and problems, the homeowner also needs to cope with the much less considered and investigated but nevertheless important aspects of privacy intrusion.
Strangers walking through the front door with all kinds of materials and equipment, making lots of noise and bringing dust to the most unlikely places and most of all disrupting daily routines, tranquillity and private space, can become very upsetting.
Nevertheless much can be done from the homeowner and equally the builder/architects side to lower the threshold to stress free building work. (more…)
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Tips on installing soil pipes
Installing domestic drain and soil pipes seem to be an easy job, no water pressures to account for or non-return and other valves to think about and regulation seems to be comprehensible to any construction worker. Just connect your pipes from point A, always go downwards and make sure you end up in the sewage and that’s it. Will it work? …It might. Will it work well? That’s a totally different ballgame. Although sticking some pipes together to drain the water seems fairly simple, a lot can go wrong when drain pipes are not installed the way they should be. Common problems with drain and soil pipes are clogs and smells and in order to avoid those providing sufficient air and keeping your waste flow under control is key.
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LED barstool
Barstool with transparent colour changing led-light seating.
Battery operated with 60 hours autonomy.
I developed this a while back. This was one of the first working prototypes
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Saw mill in operation
This movie (4 min) shows a wood mill in operation. The process that happens from when the tree trunk arrives until it is ready to go to the wholesaler.
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Industrial laminated wood bending
In mass-producing for the furniture and interior market, High Frequency forming is a commonly used method for bending wood. Typical examples are chair seats and backs.
The following is a short 50 seconds movie of an industrial plant in Spain supplying many of the local chair and interior decoration manufactures with components.
Who is the man behind your furniture?
Stating that a piece of production furniture always starts with the designer may have been true some 50 years ago, now however chances are it started in some marketing department. This statement would not only be valid for production furniture but for a large proportion of the production objects sold today. This article hopes to shed some light on the evolution of furniture design.
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Case study: conversion of an Edwardian house bathroom into a contemporary style
This presentation will lead you through the different stages of the makeover. It will explain in detail the different facets involved in successfully remodeling a bathroom of an edwardian style house into a contemporary minimal bathroom.
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Health and safety in interior design
As an interior designer one can not understate the importance of health and safety. The difficulty however lies in the fact that the safety issues he or she should be concerned about stretch over various fields ranging from, safety in the home/space/office/environment where people need to work or live, building safe constructions, to providing a safe working environment for the people who are carrying out the building work.
Many of those safety issues are bound by extensive laws and regulations and it is obvious that covering the whole spectrum of health and safety which an interior designer should be concerned about is beyond the scope of this article. Nevertheless would it be useful to write down a summary, a checklist if you like, of the various health and safety aspects governing our business and provide some leads where to start looking for help, answers and regulations.
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Which design software should I use?
A question often asked by students but also by veteran trades people and interior designers who rose in times when computers where not widely available and used is, which is the best design software on the market. This article hopes to give some guidelines in the world of design software and help you formulate and answer the right questions one needs in order to make a correct choice in the variety of offers on the market. This article is oriented at the uninitiated. (more…)
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Particle board – chipboard
This movie / pod cast will provide some information about the characteristics of particle board, also know as chipboard in some countries.
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