Flojetting at AMS
Read moreThis month, we are traveling between shops in Louisville, Akron and Columbus to ensure that AtFAB works on different cutting machines and in different materials. In Louisville we are collaborating with AMS to Flojet scale models from aluminum. The...
May 26, 20112
Roto Table Adaptation
Read moreWe adapted this Rotational Table to use as a television table. We designed the compartments to accommodate Apple TV, a cable modem, and speakers and routed slots into the center panels to lighten the piece, ventilate electronics and allow...
#MilanUncut
Read moreArchitects aren’t alone in “being voluntary workers for millionaires,” after reading Justin McGuirk’s piece on the Milan Furniture Fair in The Guardian last week. He lays bare how the industry’s royalty system fails to provide sustainable wages for even…
AtFAB Transformation Simulations
Read moreThis 3D model animation was used to study parametric transformations of AtFAB furniture. Studies enabled our team to learn what furniture parts should transform and what parts should remain fixed, as we developed the customization parameters for each AtFAB…
Beside Table
Read moreThe Beside table is meant to go next to your chair, your bed or anywhere. In designing it, we were curious about exploring a simple volume, rather than unwittingly or intentionally expressing the piece’s sheet material origins, like so...
Cat in Bag ii Table Prototype
Read moreThe Cat in Bag Table geometry organizes the space around it. Different from other AtFAB pieces, the CiB parametric definition transforms the table’s shape, which makes it possible to respond to a space or furniture arrangement you already have....
The Log and the Unité
Read moreDerived from the same root file, these two prototype storage units describe early potentials for parametrically defining all furniture objects in the system. The Log is 2400 x 400 x 800 one cell high by 12 wide, equally spaced,...
One to Several Table
Read moreDriving across the Bighorn Range in Central Wyoming last summer – on our way to our new academic jobs – Anne and I started talking about designing and building our own office furniture. This led us to making our first...
What Happened?
Read moreToo much has changed in the industry for our profession to ever return to our pre 1960 net profits. Could it finally be time for us to reconsider our business model…