BLOBWALL, designed by Los Angeles architect Greg Lynn/FORM and fabricated by Panelite, is a freestanding, indoor/outdoor wall system made of a low-density, recyclable, impact-resistant polymer. The colorful, modular “blob” is a redesign of architecture’s most basic building element, the “brick.”
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Students at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) are building a Blobwall Pavilion and learning about the fabrication process. See their exhibition summary and view the detailed blog.
The BASEL LOUNGE (above), designed by New York-based furniture designer Matthew Hoey for Panelite, the Basel Lounge is a bright red, improbably thin wave, deceptively strong due to its Cast Polymer honeycomb construction. Supported at only four discreet points connected to a three-legged, stainless-steel base, the graceful wave appears to float above the floor.
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Panelite is the leading developer of lightweight, translucent, honeycomb panels.
Greg Lynn FORM is a Los Angeles-based architecture firm and the designer of BLOBWALL.
Machineous provides multi-axis CNC services for the custom architectural design market. Its focus is large-scale projects produced using inhouse 5- and 6-axis machining equipment. Machineous fabricates BLOBWALL.
CNC technology—a primer from Wikipedia.
