Voxel Chair v1.0
- Additive Companion
- MJManuel Jimenez Garcia
- GRGilles Retsin
- Product Design and engineering
- 2017
- United Kingdom
Summary
The Voxel Chair v1.0 was designed at UCL Bartlett by Manuel Jiménez García and Gilles Retsin, reimagining Verner Panton’s iconic cantilevered chair as a lightweight, cloud-like lattice. Using proprietary software, the designers programmed the chair's structural density at a voxel level, bypassing traditional solid-surface modeling.
To fabricate it, a robotic arm extruded a single, continuous 2.36-kilometer line of biodegradable PLA plastic that solidified instantly in mid-air. This pioneering project launched the design brand Nagami and is now part of the Centre Pompidou's permanent collection.
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Technology Details
- FFF (Large Format)
- Material Extrusion
- PLA Pellets
- Pellet
Process Steps
Printer category: Material Extrusion
- 1
Step 1Printing
- Technology
- Material
Application Profile
€€€€
€100–€499.99
Indicative single unit production cost at time of manufacture.
Editions
Furniture
★★☆
Can depend on fossil fuels and high energy use, but allows unconsumed material to be directly reused for printing without reprocessing, significantly reducing manufacturing waste. This rating relates to the technology type only. The design, purpose and longevity of the entire object can offset any of the technology type's negative sustainability credentials.
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