Digital Taihu Mobiliario Impreso en 3D by Yang Pu and Ding Wen Nic Bao

Digital Taihu Mobiliario Impreso en 3D by Yang Pu and Ding Wen Nic Bao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Hierro in Diseño de Impresión 3D Competition Category.

HierroImpresión 3D· 2023

Digital Taihu Mobiliario Impreso en 3D

by Yang Pu and Ding Wen Nic Bao

Client: Nanjing University of the Arts and RMIT University

A' Design Award de Hierro Winner in Impresión 3D Category

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The Design

About Digital Taihu Mobiliario Impreso en 3D

Digital Taihu utiliza tecnología de impresión 3D para activar la aplicación de la cultura tradicional china en la era digital, combinando la piedra Taihu con algoritmos de optimización estructural evolutiva bidireccional para explorar métodos de generación de diseño a partir de sistemas naturales, resultando en diseños digitalmente sostenibles con estructuras optimizadas.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Hierro

Digital Taihu Mobiliario Impreso en 3D ha ganado el A' Design Award de Hierro, un reconocimiento prestigioso concedido a buenos diseños que cumplen los requisitos profesionales e industriales que se esperan de creaciones bien diseñadas. Los ganadores de Hierro demuestran gran habilidad, alta especialización, comprensión experta y capacidad creativa de sus creadores. Se espera que Digital Taihu Mobiliario Impreso en 3D sea una creación muy apreciada, admirada y querida, práctica e innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Hierro integra las mejores prácticas del sector y tiene características técnicas competentes unidas a conocimiento práctico y talento. Digital Taihu Mobiliario Impreso en 3D es respetado por su minuciosidad y está concebido para aportar mejoras en la calidad de vida que ayudan a hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The work uses 3D printing to activate traditional Chinese culture to realize the synergistic design of structural properties generated by the 'Taihu Stone' and bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization algorithms, focusing on the complexity of virtual birth forms into the rationality of physical forms. This digital design practice learns from nature and derives its design biomorphic approach from natural systems to achieve the sustainable goal of living in symbiosis with nature.
Dimensions & Packaging: Length 915mm, width 1125mm, height 1052mm
Tags: Bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization, 3D Printing, Conceptual Design, Furniture Design
Production Technology: A bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization method was used to optimize the furniture structure and to obtain a simulated natural form of Taihu stone. The furniture model is constructed from liquid photosensitive resin material by integrated 3D printing. The actual construction was carried out using metal 3D printing.
Design Challenge: The most difficult part of the project development process is the topology optimization phase, including the application of relevant mechanics methods and the testing of data iterations. Secondly, it was also a challenge to verify the feasibility of the structural materials, which needed to be considered in terms of production difficulties and the extent to which people would use them.
Research: Research objectives: 1. The digital expression of traditional Chinese cultures. 2. furniture structures optimization and 3D printing technology combined to achieve sustainability goals. Research methods: 1. Structural data collection and analysis. 2. Algorithmic data iteration to generate forms. Research findings: 1. 3D printing technology allows for rapid lightweight design, moving away from traditional production models. 2. Furniture structures and materials are cutting-edge. Research Impact: Provides the possibility of diverse design for the future digital design industry.
Inspiration: In the long history of furniture design, traditional culture has given furniture shapes a richer morphological language, and 3D printing as a new design culture can bring more surprises to furniture design. From a design perspective, we hope that the combination of the natural form of the traditional Chinese stone "Taihu Stone" and digital design will result in a more vivid shape through 3D printing, activating a new way of communicating Chinese traditional culture in the digital age.
Project Duration: The project started in July 2022 and ended in September 2022. Project duration: 2 months. Location: Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China.
Operation Flow: Firstly, the furniture is designed using a bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization algorithm and the prototype is iterated according to the corresponding optimization results. Secondly, the furniture is constructed by 3D printing. The topologically optimized furniture not only has reasonable structural properties, reduces the amount of material used, and shortens the construction production cycle, but also results in a better quality customized lightweight designs.
Team Members: Yang Pu
Ding Wen Bao
Image Credits: Yang Pu and Ding Wen‘Nic’Bao，2022.