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La gama de mobiliario Honeycomb (panal de abeja) surge de un proyecto de colaboración entre el diseñador Liam Hopkins y el artista Richard Sweeney en el estudio de Lazerian, Manchester. Los creadores utilizaron cartón corrugado de las cajas de la fábrica de John Hargreaves, en Stalybridge, que se producen, a partir de la pulpa del papel reciclado. El sofá y el sillón Honeycomb se lanzan al mercado en enero de este año, en Birmingham.
El proceso de diseño experimental se fundamenta en formas cilíndricas, que inspiradas en las formas esculturales de la naturaleza, incluyendo los panales de abeja y la estructura ósea cristalina de microscópicos organismos marinos. Se utilizaron técnicas de diseño por computadora para genera la forma de los muebles utilizando bloques triangulares, orientadas a utilizar las propiedades del cartón.
Los componentes individuales se obtuvieron de un modelo virtual para crear diseños de planos, que fueron impresas para crear las plantillas y hacer la transferencia al cartón. Se cortaron más de 2 mil componentes, pegados a mano, para crear el sofá Honeycomb.
The Honeycomb range of furniture emerged as part of a collaborative project between furniture designer Liam Hopkins and artist Richard Sweeney at Lazerian studio, Manchester. The designers constrained themselves to the use of corrugated cardboard sourced locally from John Hargreaves’ factory in Stalybridge, which produces paper from recycled pulp using machinery originally installed in 1910. The Honeycomb Sofa and Armchair are released at Interiors 2010 with Designers Block at the NEC Birmingham, 24-27th January 2010.
The design process involved experimentation with columnar forms, which were inspired by structural forms in nature, including a wasp nest and the crystalline bone structure of microscopic sea organisms known as Radiolaria. Computer design techniques were used to generate the form of the furniture using triangular columns, which were oriented to utilise the structural properties of the cardboard. The individual components were extracted from the virtual model to create flat layouts, which were printed to create templates for transfer onto the cardboard- over two thousand components were hand cut and glued together to create the Honeycomb Sofa.
Con la colaboración de Cynthia Fuertes M.
