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SPK Bowl - Berto Pandolfo - Digifacture Exhibition

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Created: 01/09/11
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Students were exposed to the Australian Manufacturing industry and were challenged to take a new laser sintering technology (EOS) to a new direction. Students worked in a team under a design leader who directed the process and final product.
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  • SPK Bowl
    Team Leader: Berto Pandolfo
    Team: Renata Hidajat, Meagan Adams, Monique De Souza, Stephanie Widenbein & Youndong (Shawn) Kim 2010
  • The purpose of the Digifacture Project was to expose the Australian Manufacturing industry to the students and education facilities of the University of Technology Sydney. AMS shared their resources and knowledge of EOS Laser Sintering Technology with the leaders and their students. The students were split up into groups working under a design team leader who took the technology to a new direction by exploring its potential.
  • I participated in a team of 5 students working and supporting the team leader Berto Pandolfo. After researching the laser sintering process we concluded that the features of this process important to this project included being able to build complex forms, precise and repetitive details, and structurally sound parts. The team explored the function and typology of the chosen object;a bowl.

    The visual direction of the project was driven by a desire to include an element of decoration. Many objects today are void of decoration for the simple reason that a minimalist trend in design where clean lines and surface dominate and where the addition of decoration in most cases results in complicating the production process, therefore increasing cost.


  • The complexity in the final design is certainty not in the individual spike nor the semi-spherical container, as they are very straight forward and easily produced forms. The complexity is achieved by the sum of these parts, in particular, the quantity and placement of the spikes on the semi-spherical body. The resultant design in terms of its ability to be ‘made’ would have been placed at the highly unlikely end of both the mass production and hand crafted manufacturing scenarios.

    To further highlight the interior and exterior of the bowl, tests were conducted to colour the plastic material. The surface of the laser sintered part has a fine grain that enabled a positive and even adhesion to liquid dyes.

    Links:
    http://www.advancedmanufacturing.com.au/media/Digifacture.pdf
    http://bertopandolfo.com/index.htm
  • SPK Bowl on display at the Digifacture Exhibition 2010