my name is daniel, i'm an architectural assistantat matt architecture, based in central london and we use 3d printing in a whole range of applicationsto translate our ideas into build form matt's quite a young company.we do a whole range of work from bespoke residential work tocommercial developments we're quite a fun company
best 3d program for 3d printing, and we're just enjoying the process of designingand delivering buildings at the moment part of our mission statement or company ethos is to unlock the potential of difficult sites throughfun and inclusive architecture in the past, in my old job, we would have mademodels by hand
just cutting the paper, cutting card it's great for capturing ideas but when it comes to developing complex shapes,complex geometry, it's really labour-intensive so for something like this, for example, we would havecut out all the floor plans, all the facades we would have to work out all the geometriesand fold the card and even then it wouldn't have been very sturdy so we were kind of limited, in a way by the time i come to matt in 2013, desktop 3d printingwas already starting to become kind of available and matt actually funded a kickstarter 3d printerthat we were trying to use in the office
so that's how we started to use it here i'm working on a project called ilona rose house, and it'sa large mixed-use redevelopment in central london and that's a model that we worked with through theplanning process, to show the building in its context and that's actually a traditional architectural model;quite expensive, takes a long time to produce and we found we needed to reiterate the designquite a lot of times so the 3d printer was super useful for being able toproduce cheap but really beautiful massing proposals to show the planners and engage themin the planning process and we just print it in a filament which has woodembedded in it, so we can achieve a really similar look the real advantage of ultimaker for us has been thespeed that it can print at, but also the reliability
and this is one where we 3d printed at 1-to-1 the patternthat we want to have on the building's facade so the green and the yellow are 3d printed piecesand the white are cast from this central green piece and this lets us then cast a mold a flexible, silicone mold and then produce a tile which is really useful to talk to manufacturers aboutthe finish we're trying to achieve but also to show the clientthe vision we have for the build we've designed all the facade pieces we're goingto then take a mold of and then cast this is another example of how we just reintegrate3d printing with traditional techniques
so here we are, at the site of theilona rose house project these 3 buildings on the corner here, going all the wayback to that road are all to be demolished to make way for the project we'redesigning on at the moment that model of the corner you were just seeing is actuallythis corner here, which marks the entrance into soho so it's really important for the projectand really important for us and this facade pattern we've been working onwill be applied to the building all along here and on that street there we find that, when we make modelsit really engages the client a lot of what we do is quite technical, like producingtechnical drawings
when you show someone a technical drawing, theydon't really engage with that but when you show someone a model and suddenlythey can pick it up and look around it i think it's a way we engage peoplewith the ideas we're trying to pursue that's what we're trying to do
