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Figure 69.
Immaterial | Ultramaterial,
Toshiro Mori
Materials My project replaces this ‘virtual’ information with the
‘hybrid’ world. I think dealing with physical materials is getting
important because we are losing a sense for the real materials as screenbased
media make us involved the virtual world. For this project, I have
used raw materials of everyday life instead of commercial
materials/products and they maybe all in the daily object not only for
me but also other people who live in cities. Materials such as aluminum,
stainless, concrete, wood, plastic, and cable were used which are
materials that we see and touch everyday, like nature.
Fabrication Fabrication, is one of my current interests, by which I
mean producing something that is not a commercial product to sell and
buy in this capital society. In ordinary life, especially in an urban setting,
we sometimes need to buy these products to survive. It is easy to forget
what they are made from and the only see the finished products. Thus,
for this project, I used raw materials from our surroundings and
fabrication technologies.
Figure 70. 3D CNC
Milting Test (During
Tech-Seminar 2008,
Winter )
In winter 2008, I took Tech Seminar course in the UCLA
Architecture Department, and had access to their fabrication
equipments such as a laser cutter, a 3D printer, and 2D/3D milling
machines that “enable the production of physical objects directly from
digital models, allowing for new forms and aesthetics of space.” 69 For
this project, I used a laser cutter for labeling wind buoy stations of each
concrete frame that I molded. Assembled Modules visualize selected
stations of real-time data.
Figure 71. Laser cutting for labeling
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