AtFAB Digitally Manufactured Furniture
AtFAB is Open Source furniture which you can digitally manufacture from any off-the-shelf sheet material that can be cut by a CNC router, laser cutter or water jet. Each object is comprised of simple, flat interlocking parts, which anyone can intuitively put together without adhesives or complicated hardware. Learn more and download AtFAB here.
In Development: The Pajama Factory in Williamsport, PA
An adaptive reuse of a 300,000 mill building in Williamsport, PA that once manufactured Keds Sneakers. The design is implemented through a series of tactical, incremental construction build outs, that support bottom up community growth, phased business expansion, and staged funding from investors, tax credits and financing.
In Development: Shenandoah Mountain House
A weekend house designed for a Washington DC couple on a stunning but remote mountaintop in West Virginia. The design takes advantage of unobstructed 270 degree views of the Shenandoah Mountains, while addressing difficult site access, a short construction season, limited labor force and shoestring budget.
NEWS
Involution Now in 306090
Gary Rohrbacher's "Involution Now" has been published in Making a Case, 306090's latest volume. In it, he outlines how a new kind of collaboration might enable architects to address our increasingly pressing environmental and energy concerns.
Purchase 306090, Volume 14 here.
World Maker Faire 2011
Filson and Rohrbacher brought AtFAB prototypes to the World Maker Faire in New York on September 17 & 18, and were pleased to receive Maker Faire Editor's Choice Award.
See Gary Rohrbacher explain the project to Make Magazine's Chris Connors here.
CDVE 2011 in Hong Kong
On Sept 12, 2011, Anne Filson presented a paper in Hong Kong on Filson and Rohrbacher's collaborative and distributed fabrication workflow for AtFAB.
Click here to view the conference proceedings.
Tale of Two Regions in Den Haag, NL
On Sept 1, 2011 Gary Rohrbacher joined others in a forum discussion organized by the LSE and PBL I&M to consider the metropolitan areas of South East England and the Randstad Holland.
Click here to see the program.
Envisioning Organization at OSU
Anne Filson presented "t/$" at the Envisioning Organization Conference and proposed how we could visualize the flows oftime and money in the design process to make a better case for architecture. She showed research on the decline of the architecture profession's net profits since the 1960's.
See the diagram and read the post on our blog.
UPCOMING EVENTS
AtFAB Exhibition & Symposium
A collection of prototypes, scale models, and graphics that communicate AtFAB's conceptual underpinnings and systemic design. The symposium next spring in Lexington will discuss AtFAB as strategy, design and business. The exhibition will present viewers with multiple formats that show the design of each piece in detail, the capacity that each piece has for transformation, and the system's versatility for realization with different materials and CNC machines.
Click here to see more about exhibition.