Beast by Neri Oxman

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Beast Lounge Chair Study

Beast is an organic-like entity created synthetically by the incorporation of physical parameters with digital form-generation protocols. A single continuous surface, acting both as structure and as skin, is locally modulated for both structural support and corporeal aid. Beast combines structural, environmental, and corporeal performance by adapting its thickness, pattern density, stiffness, flexibility, and translucency to load, curvature, and skin-pressured areas respectively.

Neri Oxman

Architect and designer Neri Oxman is assistant professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she directs the Mediated Matter research group. Her group explores how digital design and fabrication technologies mediate between matter and environment to radically transform the design and construction of objects, buildings, and systems.

And if you put it upside down we are at our usual quest again: Chairchez La Femme (look for the lady).

Via Neri Oxman.

Update

Just one day after this post Neri is featured in Arch Daily.

Last edited by Guido J. van den Elshout on July 19, 2012 at 4:47 PM