RealFlex by Ora-Ito
French designer Ora-Ito created a sculptural wall relief for a recent exhibition in London.
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The natural acrylic stone material HI-MACS® was chosen by eminent French artist Ora-ïto for his entry into the recent Wallpaper/Reebok exhibition in London. Fabricated by Candido Hermida in Spain, HI-MACS® was selected for its outstanding properties, visual and tactile effects and the ability to offer the artist thermoforming capabilities that placed zero restriction on his vision and ability to create a stunning three-dimensional creation.
Five of the world’s leading creative artists were invited to participate and Ora-Ito’s contribution was an interpretation of the Reebok RealFlex shoe in the form of a wall-mounted installation made entirely from HI-MACS®.
The detail of Ora-Ito’s work was what he described as the “iconic sneaker soles”. In creating this by using HI-MACS® the designer was able to exercise various sculptural experiments taking inspiration from the RealFlex sole’s “hidden art” aspects, resulting in a topographic landscape made to touch and explore its own poetic qualities.
This amazing sculpture was fabricated by Candido Hermida, who commented, “To work for a top designer like Ora-Ito, is always a challenge and a pleasure, his creations are wonderful in terms of design, but inevitably extremely complex in terms of fabrication. In this case the fabrication complexity was mainly because we had to understand the design and determine how to program the software that controls the CNC machine automatically, in order to achieve the 3d shape required.”
Visit Ora-Ito’s website – here.
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MyDS on 31 Aug 2011 at 1:55 am #
WooooOOOOoooow
arch on 31 Aug 2011 at 4:30 am #
fabricated by Candido Hermida i hope he used a 3d printer otherwise this would be a huge pain in the neck not to mention this is not a big deal if u work with grasshopper
zach on 01 Sep 2011 at 9:59 am #
arch,
clearly a cnc router was used since you can see the toolpath in the close up photos…and just stamping it with the ‘oh, that’s easy on grasshopper’ shows your lack of experience with cnc toolpaths as well as fabrication in general. take time to read the article and look at the pictures before you post your know it all comments.
mike on 01 Sep 2011 at 10:03 am #
if you seek to question the place of this wall in architecture you must ask how do we fabricate this in a seamless way that it is represented here? how do we turn this design into a building envelope without a giant cnc machine…? where are the seams to be placed…the design is beautiful…i hope it sparks some creative thinking