Volumes are boxes with all kinds of sloping angles screwed onto a climbing wall to temporarily change the profile. Plywood is the material for volumes with planar faces. Organic shapes are mostly made of glass fibre. More recently, some manufacturers have been heat molding thermoplastic sheet material…
I created an algorithm to quickly design and explore plywood volumes. At the push of a button, plans or data can be exported for cutting with hand tools or 5-axis CNC machines. Metadata is streamed to Excel for cost calculation.
I’ve invested a great amount of time into the development of digital design processes to create a variety of volumes and export files for manufacturing. With production always being incredibly challenging and big source of frustration, I came to the conclusion it is not worth investing my time into a product which some major players in the business still cut with 3-axis CNC machines and manually operated table saws and handheld circular saws. The result might be accurate but the manual process is not what I want it to be.