3d printed design

In Abu Dhabi, extreme temperatures render outdoor public spaces unusable for much of the year. The city’s Department of Transport launched the Cool Abu Dhabi Challenge, a global competition to design urban roofs capable of mitigating the heat island effect. Barberio Colella Architetti, in collaboration with Angelo Figliola, responded with Urban Dunes: a project that does not add technology to the urban space, but rediscovers the principles of traditional architecture from the Arab world and reinvents them through digital fabrication. The underlying idea is straightforward: to lift, as it were, a thick layer of sand to create artificial dunes beneath which an urban oasis takes shape. The roof is a complex vault — arches, central... More

  Minimalistic noir & balanced microenvironment Shapes and principles of simplicity and functionality, characterized by few but interesting elements. Space free from objects, but filled with emotions.  Porcelain claddings with elegant and understated texture, balanced with fine accoustic pannels. Exceptionally raw wood. 3d printed pieces sharing details of geometry and proportion, with variation in the character. NASA large format telescope photos printed on wood-fibre-based wallpapers. Contrasting matte and raw textures create subtle differentiation between flat and contoured surfaces, for the eye and for the hand. More

The start-up company Ampelmann has grown into a mature, international provider of safe offshore access solutions. Wanting to reflect the innovative and energizing character of the company and to secure close collaboration between departments, Ampelmann was in search of a new office. They asked Fokkema & Partners Architecten to develop a workplace concept, to support finding a location and to design the new head office for the engineers, supporting teams and the board. At a bend in the river Schie, on the edge of the old city center of Delft, a dilapidated laboratory building from the eighties has been transformed into a perfect fit. Key was to uncover and enhance the hidden spatial qualities. Extraordinary spaces have been complemen... More

Digital Grotesque is the first fully immersive, solid, human-scale, enclosed structure thatis entirely 3D printed out of sand. This structure, measuring 16 square meters, ismaterialized with details at the threshold of human perception. Every aspect of thisarchitecture is composed by custom-designed algorithms.The combination of additive manufacturing and computational design produces a new,non-standardized, highly differentiated and spatially complex architecture. Anarchitecture emerges between chaos and order, both natural and artificial, yet neitherforeign nor familiar: a Digital Grotesque. More