The Text Vase: Clients pick the text that will ring the perimeter of this personalized 3D printed vessel.
This prototype reads: “THE SPIRAL IN A SNAIL’S SHELL IS THE SAME AS THE SPIRAL IN OUR DNA, AND IT’S ALSO THE SAME AS THE SPIRAL IN THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, A HURRICANE, A PINE CONE, AND THE MILKY WAY”
Personalization
The places where we live and the objects that we use tend to be impersonal. Our belief at Fisher ARCHitecture is that homes, similar to clothing, should reflect the tastes, inclinations, and personality of their owners.
With that in mind, we’ve designed tiny houses whose exterior facades are decorated with photographs of their owners; we’ve designed exterior glass panel systems decorated with text that, with the help of the sun, project their contents onto visitors when they pass below. Also, we’ve designed radiant-heated furniture that selectively heats the human body only where users sit and an abstract panel system for a digital media business that reveals the company logo when viewed from the right location.
Prototypes 1 and 2
Why can’t this level of personalization extend to household objects? Using our cool Grasshopper software, we designed a program that spirals text around any concentric surface. In fact, we can use this program to create household items constructed from any words that may be relevant to their owners. A few possible examples: plates, planters, bowls, salt-shakers, pepper-grinders, bottles and even light fixtures.
To demonstrate the concept we first designed a small text vase for my partner Bea’s parents. Then we wrapped their names, “Sergio” and “Catarina”, around the perimeter, and printed it at “Shapeways.com” just in time for the holidays!
For other recent Fisher ARCHitecture designs of household items, click here or here.
In addition, for recent full size Fisher ARCHitecture parametric architecture designs, check out Jan Loney’s studio here, and our “513 Court Place” project here.
