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Figure 14: ‘SLS® Dress’, 2005. Freedom of Creation
Janne Kyttanen and Jiri Evenhuis’s Amsterdam-based design research
company, ‘Freedom of Creation’ (FOC) produces rapid manufactured
commercial products and develops new rapid manufactured textiles. They work
on self-initiated as well as sponsored projects with industrial partners and
universities. The ‘SLS® Dress’ (Figure 14) is the world’s first body fitting textile
garment to be produced directly in its assembled state (Hopkinson, Hague and
Dickens, 2005, p.13-16). It was produced with the Loughborough Rapid
Manufacturing Research Group in collaboration with Nottingham University
Composite Materials Research Group.
Figure 15: ‘Kagoshima Temple’, 2005. Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick Studio’s proposed temple for Kagoshima, Japan (Figure
15) is one of this London-based design studio’s projects which range from
products and urban design to civil engineering and public art. Heatherwick
applies his skills as a 3D designer to create urban sculptural objects and iconic
and functional spaces. In the temple project, Heatherwick began working with
large lumps of clay before realising that this looked like fabric. This suggested
the garments a priest wears or the cushion a Buddha sits on. The final design
resulted from a laser-scanned piece of fabric. The proposed building consists of
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