*The mesmerizing La Oxman is on top of her biomimetic generative-archispeak in this interview. Normally her pitch is so out-there that she comes across like a trance-music diva, but in this interview, she stops to explain, and she explains some highly interesting and relevant stuff.
*Man, the day I live in a robot-constructed organic-brick house, and I'm kicking back amid my host of augments on one of those beastly Oxman chaise longues... even if I have to grow my own urban farm chow out of some Amy Youngs recycled plastic bottles, IT'LL BE WORTH IT!
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"For example, with Beast – a prototype for a chaise lounge – the aim was to completely rethink the Modernist project and consider physical behavior, not form, as the first article of production. Beast relates material properties to a general loading profile that would be exerted on the chaise when in use. Stiff and soft polymers are distributed in areas of high and low pressure respectively, and the height of each cushioning bump, as it appears on the surface area of the chaise, corresponds to our body’s pressure map, providing for comfort and support. The design process in this case was completely tailored to a new way of thinking about design and full scale digital fabrication, an industry still in its infancy. Imagine Mary Shelley’s mythical creatures; like them, Beast is an organic-like entity created synthetically by the incorporation of physical parameters into digital generation protocols. It is a Performative Chaise. It exploits and advances technological frontiers to create a form of responsive architecture. Here form follows force not unlike the way Mother Nature has it...."
