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FutureCityLab Berlin Opening at AEDES gallery
If you are in Berlin, make sure to stop by the AEDES Gallery to see the FutureCityLab exhibition. The exhibition will run until July 2nd with weekly workshops and lectures focused the latest ideas to future of the city.
Share Your Thoughts on the Future City
We helped develop a tweet printer for the round table at the FutureCityLab exhibition so that you can interact with the visitors. Just send your tweets: QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE, YOUR IDEAS, YOUR CONCERNS, YOUR FORESIGHT to the exhibition mentioning "#FutureCityLab" or writing directly to "@FutureCityLab"
The OpenFurniture arrived in time for the opening ;)
Join our joint workshop with AEDES,FutureCityLab, Design 2.0 Meet up and Architectuul in order to built up the furniture and design the next revision. The workshop will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of June.
OpenFurniture Prototypes
OpenSimSim and Eternit have completed prototype models for the Tumblr Stool and Folding Chair. There is only one minor error with the Tumblr Stool, but everything else is coming together quite well. We are finishing up a prototype model for the Folding Stool and we will be ready to exhibit the final designs at the Future City Lab exhibit in Berlin.
Open Furniture
Over the last four weeks, OpenSimSim has crowdsourced designs for FutureCityLab in partnership with Eternit, Aedes Gallery, and BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin. We are proud to announce the three designs that will be fabricated and showcased at the exhibit. The designs are:
Tumblr Stool / Joshua Perez
Stacking Chair / Bruno Pereira
Folding Stool / Kyle Rogler
Phase 2 of OpenFurniture will start after the Future City Lab exhibit. The feedback generated from the crowd will provide the starting point for the next series of ideas and improvements to the open source design. Thank you to all of the collaborators and designers that have helped in generating such incredible ideas! The first phase has been documented by Bruno Pereira in this booklet:
Open publication - Free publishing - More design
Open Furniture - Crowdsource Design
For the last three weeks OpenSimSim project OpenFurniture has received and designed ideas to the chair/stool for the Future City Lab exhibition in Berlin. Which one of them you think that have more potencial to be built for the exhibition? Help us choosing 2 designs and make part of the design process!
Vote here
Join us to decide, share your opinion and knowledge!
Sandwich Stool
By using a 1200mm x 1300mm sheet of material we are able to construct support ribs (sheets) that could be attached together in various ways, ie. glue, screws, tension bands, etc. By using nearly all of the material per sheet, we would maximize our output and be able to produce 19 stools, per 30 square meters of material.
Joshua Perez & Bruno Pereira, OSS New York & Portugal
Sandwich Stool
By using a 1200mm x 1300mm sheet of material we are able to construct support ribs (sheets) that could be attached together in various ways, ie. glue, screws, tension bands, etc. By using nearly all of the material per sheet, we would maximize our output and be able to produce 19 stools, per 30 square meters of material.
Joshua Perez & Bruno Pereira, OSS New York & Portugal
Folding Chair
Following OpenSimSim's discussion with Marcel Bilow, the Folding Chair utilizes the 3F technology and weaving techniques. Four concrete panels can be cut from 1 sqm of material and have the rubber strips blind riveted. A series of holes will be water-jetted and strung together with nylon cord. What do you think?
Kyle Rogler - OSS Kansas
Stacked Chair - Using a 1.00x1.25 fiberconcrete sheet, the idea is waterjet whatever shape we want and assemble it with drilled pieces of fiberconcrete in between the pieces, then glue them and hold them tight with threaded rod through all the pieces. At the end of each rod we can use nuts to hold them tight. This is the first idea of what could a feasible system to fabricate the chairs. What do you think?
Bruno Pereira - OSS Portugal and Joshua Perez - OSS New York
Meeting with Marcel Bilow
Today OpenSimSim sat down with Marcel Bilow, head of the Bucky Lab at TU Delft and Director of Imagine Envelope, to get his ideas on the construction of the chair. From the meeting today, Marcel offered four different and innovative methods on how fiber concrete boards could be connected together.
Idea 1 - Cord
Using a waterjet to pre-drill holes, the fiber concrete boards can be stitched together with nylon cord. A number of different cords can be utilized and the craftsmanship of the knot-work becomes the centerpiece of the design.
Idea 2 - 3F Board
A F3 board is a sandwich of two thin materials glued and clamped to a flexible rubber sheet. A small gap is made between the boards to allow for a joint to act as a hinge. The spacing of this gap determines the angle and folding mechanics possible in the design.
Idea 3 - Blind Rivet
A blind rivet is a current technology used to attach fiber concrete boards to a facade. Using the similar principle as the 3F Board, the concrete boards can be riveted to a rubber strip to create a flexible hinge. This flexible material can also be made from leather, fabric, or recycled bicycle tires.
Idea 4 - Wedge
The wedge takes a wood-working principle to tightly fit pieces together by friction. The wedge technique works best when the angle is narrow and the two boards are perpendicular to one another. As the wedge protrudes out, it is important that this connection is not on the seat of the stool.
Diagrams drawn by Marcel Bilow
OSS Crowd-Sourced Exhibition Furniture
Thoughts with Domenico Lio, Architect & Designer, NYC and Joshua Perez, Designer & OpenSimSim Partner.
The furniture (stools) should represent and complete the greater meaning of bringing people together. Compliment the reason for the exhibition, not compete with it.
Since the exhibition is about future cities, maybe the furniture should aim to create neighborhoods, where people with the same, or competing, thoughts and ideas can share experiences.
It's about having fun, how does the furniture encourage this?
The exhibition is NOT about the stool. It is about the collective vision of being a part of this experience and leaving people wanting to be involved in such a raw form of creativity. (Open-Source) No one telling you how to design or what you "should" be doing. Should be hands-on.
What do we want people to leave with? What message or experience? New knowledge, new appreciation for open-sourced efforts?
How can people be involved, and what role does the crowd-sourced design for stools play once at the exhibition?
The furniture can represent something huge, but play a small role simultaneously. They should represent the future of collaborative design and design knowledge sharing. At the same time acting only as a facilitator in the larger message of educating people on the possibilities of our future cities and the fact that even the smallest collaborations can make the largest successful.
The reality is that virtually no one will attend the exhibition solely to experience this furniture, don't design and fabricate them as if it were the opposite. Keep it simple and elegant while maximizing productivity and enjoyment.
NYC, 13 April 2012
OSS Balloon Waffle Chair - Opensimsim balloon symbol extruded using a waffle system to build another possibility for the chair. The joints are made in each element using a wood type connection.
OpenSimSim meeting to brainstorm and share some ideas to the OpenFurniture project for the Future City Lab exhibition in Berlin. Bruno Pereira from Lisbon and Andrea Graziano from Pinerolo,TO discuss some thoughs on what type of connection should we use to build the chair/stool in fiberconcrete sheet. What connection you think we should use? Share your knowledge and take part of the design.
Second OpenSimSim meeting on the Open Furniture project, with Bruno Pereira from Lisbon, Josh Perez from New York, Kyle Rogler from Kansas City and Daniel Dendra from Berlin. In this video we discuss what type of connections could we use to build the chair in fiberconcrete. Duck tape, Cable binders, Hinges, Screws, what would you use to connect it? Do you know other types of connections? Share your knowlegde and experience with us and take part of the design!
Tumblr Stool
Designed to be used in multiple orientations, the tumblr stool uses the concrete board's material characteristics as the impetus for its structural design. The stool can be used independently or tumbled and slid next to adjacent stools to create a larger, more group oriented, bench.
-Joshua Perez, Partner OSS New York City