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| PROJECT DATA |
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| TYPE |
FURNITURE |
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| LOCATION | QUEEN VICTORIA GARDENS MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA |
| CLIENT | NAOMI MILGROM FOUNDATION |
| DATE | 2022 |
| TEAM | IAIN MAXWELL |
| COLLABORATORS | [TOMKINS DESIGN] SAM TOMKINS |
| PHOTOS | NICK BURROWS
MARIE LUISE-SKIBBE
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| AWARDS | INTERNATIONAL WINNER M-PAVILION CHAIR COMPETITION - PERMANENT COLLECTION POWERHOUSE MUSEUM OF ART AND DESIGN - GOLD MEDAL AUSTRALIAN GOOD DESIGN AWARDS - GOLD MEDAL NEW ZEALAND BEST DESIGN AWARDS - MERIT AWARD DESIGN INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA [DIA] - HIGHLY COMMENDED IDEA AWARD SUSTAINABILITY CATEGORY AUSTRALIAN DESIGN REVIEW [ADR] - SILVER MEDAL DESIGN EDUCATES AWARD |
Re-pete Stool
M-Pavilion 2022 Chair
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The outcome of a close and rewarding collaboration with nationally-recognised industrial designer Sam Tomkins [Tomkins Design], RePete represents a modular, lightweight and zero-waste stool produced from robotically extruded recyclable polyethylene terephthalate (rPETG) plastic.
The winner of the MPavilion International Chair Competition, curated by the Noami Milgrom Foundation, the design draws inspiration from the billowing and cellular forms of the 2022 pavilion design by architects All(zone). The stool’s complex doubly-curved shape enhances the chair’s stability and stiffness at key locations whilst offering flex and suspension at others. The translucent yet highly textured surface animates the stool, amplifying its environment through flickering plays of light and casting spectrums of colour.
The stool demonstrates a circular approach that encompasses design, fabrication and end-of-life recovery and reprocessing while celebrating the aesthetic and functional possibilities of emergent material techniques and robotic fabrication technologies.
Development of the robotic fabrication method was undertaken at the University of Canberra, Faculty of Arts and Design, Workshop 07, where both Max and Sam hold academic positions and integrate their research and creative enterprises into their teaching.
RePete is the recipient of Australia’s top professional design awards: Gold Medal, 2023 Australian Good Design Awards; Merit Award, Design Institute of Australia.
The winner of the MPavilion International Chair Competition, curated by the Noami Milgrom Foundation, the design draws inspiration from the billowing and cellular forms of the 2022 pavilion design by architects All(zone). The stool’s complex doubly-curved shape enhances the chair’s stability and stiffness at key locations whilst offering flex and suspension at others. The translucent yet highly textured surface animates the stool, amplifying its environment through flickering plays of light and casting spectrums of colour.
The stool demonstrates a circular approach that encompasses design, fabrication and end-of-life recovery and reprocessing while celebrating the aesthetic and functional possibilities of emergent material techniques and robotic fabrication technologies.
Development of the robotic fabrication method was undertaken at the University of Canberra, Faculty of Arts and Design, Workshop 07, where both Max and Sam hold academic positions and integrate their research and creative enterprises into their teaching.
RePete is the recipient of Australia’s top professional design awards: Gold Medal, 2023 Australian Good Design Awards; Merit Award, Design Institute of Australia.
RePete
An elegant and modular design language that explores the formal and material possibilities of robotic fabrication
An elegant and modular design language that explores the formal and material possibilities of robotic fabrication
RePete
Toolpathing of the extrusion process affords a unique textural quality of the resulting stool surface that plays with light in a myriad of ways
Toolpathing of the extrusion process affords a unique textural quality of the resulting stool surface that plays with light in a myriad of ways
ReRePete
Fully recycled chair fabricated using the regrind of damaged chairs returned by NMF M-Pavilion
Fully recycled chair fabricated using the regrind of damaged chairs returned by NMF M-Pavilion
RePete
A modular stool design that allows for multiple seating configurations
A modular stool design that allows for multiple seating configurations
MPavilion 2022
RePete stools insitu
Photos (L+R): Marie Luise-Skibbe
RePete stools insitu
Photos (L+R): Marie Luise-Skibbe
MPavilion 2022
RePete stools insitu
Photos (L+R): Marie Luise-Skibbe
RePete stools insitu
Photos (L+R): Marie Luise-Skibbe
Circularity
Industrial granulator for reprocessing products into grind for future prints.
Industrial granulator for reprocessing products into grind for future prints.
Fabrication Workcell
UR10e manipulator with bespoke screw-fed extrudedr and heated bed.
UR10e manipulator with bespoke screw-fed extrudedr and heated bed.
Local manufacturing
The MPavilion commission saw the production of 60 stools and demonstrates the viability of robotic fabrication for low-volume manufacturing of bespoke design products.
The MPavilion commission saw the production of 60 stools and demonstrates the viability of robotic fabrication for low-volume manufacturing of bespoke design products.
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