Tag: CNC
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Camp5 KL East paneling
Under the brand called Camp5, my friends own five climbing gyms in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Soon they’ll open another huge gym with a total of 1340 m² of climbing surface. The walls were designed by co-owner Patrick Andrey. I got to do the paneling which consists of placing panels on the planes of the walls…
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Elys Metamaze
The Metamaze is a spatial labyrinth, playground, artificial cave and hideaway at Elys Boulderloft in Basel, Switzerland. On a footprint of 25 m², the intertwined tunnel system has a total lenght of nearly 50 meters. The panels are CNC cut 24 mm birch plywood and connected with German made steel connectors. The Metamaze is built…
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So iLL Iron Palm hangboard
Jason Kehl’s signature hangboard got a redesign. My task was to blend the individual parts into one object in the correct size. While most of the adaptions were straight forward, the pinches needed some more attention. In the end, Jason shaped one side in foam and air-mailed the master part so I could scan it.…
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So iLL Meagan Martin training tiles
So iLL asked me to design training tiles for their athlete Meagan Martin who’s part of the USA World Cup team and a Ninja Warrior. We agreed on the tile design early on. I wanted to try something a little different this time. Instead of grips shaped like oblong holes subtracted from a main body,…
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So iLL Rise hangboard
A hangboard made of wood is fabricated in a subtractive process and cutting away more material takes more time and thus raises the pricetag. Casting a plastic hangboard is the opposite. Thicker grips and rungs require more resin. The goal is simple, design a hangboard with as little material as possible. The Rise hangboard was…
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Beam optimization
Five huge timber vaults have been built for the 2021 Tianfu Agricultural Expo. StructureCraft created the production files for three of the vaults, Häring Timber Technology did the other two. The arches of the conical vaults all shared a similar buildup, yet all arches had different dimensions. The glulam beams were produced in Europe and…
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Cheeta Wood Boomerangs
The masters were hand shaped by Laurent Laporte and I got to do the scans with my Artec Eva. The result of a scan is usually a dense mesh consisting of a lot of tiny triangles. In order to provide clean surfaces for CNC machining these holds out of solid beech, the meshes were remeshed…
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So iLL flatpack volumes
We’ve been talking about flatpack volumes five years prior but now it was time to get some prototypes made. Many methods were tested and So iLL decided to go with very simplistic volumes with 90° edges only. Read more…
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So iLL Boost hangboard
After redesigning both the Blister board and Jason Kehl’s Iron Palm hangboard, I got to design the Boost hangboard by myself. The first production run was done in wood, later on a PU version was added.