Digital Taihu 3D-printade möbler by Yang Pu and Ding Wen Nic Bao

Digital Taihu 3D-printade möbler by Yang Pu and Ding Wen Nic Bao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award i Järn in 3D-utskrifts- och Produktdesign Competition Category.

Järn3D-utskrift· 2023

Digital Taihu 3D-printade möbler

by Yang Pu and Ding Wen Nic Bao

Client: Nanjing University of the Arts and RMIT University

A' Design Award i Järn Winner in 3D-utskrift Category

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The Design

About Digital Taihu 3D-printade möbler

Digital Taihu använder 3D-utskriftsteknik för att aktivera tillämpningen av traditionell kinesisk kultur i den digitala eran, kombinerar Taihu-sten med dubbelriktade evolutionära strukturoptimeringsalgoritmer för att utforska designgenereringsmetoder från naturliga system, vilket resulterar i digitalt hållbara designer med optimerade strukturer.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Järn

Digital Taihu 3D-printade möbler är vinnare av A' Design Award i Järn, ett prestigefyllt erkännande som tilldelas bra designverk som uppfyller de professionella och industriella krav som förväntas av välgjorda skapelser. Järnvinnare visar stor skicklighet, hög specialisering, expertförståelse och skaparnas kreativa förmåga. Digital Taihu 3D-printade möbler förväntas vara en högt skattad, beundrad och älskad skapelse som är praktisk och innovativ. Detta vinnande verk i A' Design Award i Järn integrerar branschens bästa praxis och har kompetenta tekniska egenskaper kopplade till kunnande och talang. Digital Taihu 3D-printade möbler respekteras för sin grundlighet och är utformat för att åstadkomma förbättringar av livskvaliteten som hjälper till att göra världen till en bättre plats.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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.