At the corner of Via Gaetano Crespi and Via del Canzi in Ventura Lambrate is a surprising vertical installation, a fragmented wall that juxtaposes light and dark, full and empty, organic and digital — this is the ScanToProduction installation by Hironori Yoshida, Giacomo Cantoni and Pietro Pagliaro.
ScanToProduction is an example of a continuous production process that analytically detects and acquires the peculiarity of a material (in this case, the wood grain), and then adapts the fabrication methods or interventions to the physical properties and heterogeneous nature of the material itself.
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Hironori Yoshida has worked with hybrid materials for years, moving from Rotterdam to Carnegie Mellon University and then back to Europe to the ETH Zürich. This installation is a new iteration in his field of work, with a partly different manufacturing process behind it. As before, the material features are scanned, but this time the processed images are translated into motion paths for a seven-axis industrial robot, which works the material in a one-shot process based on an algorithmic calculation. After carving into the wood according to the digital instructions, the gaps are filled with polyester resin, obtaining a new and stronger hybrid material based on the qualities of the source material.
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Follow the link for a sneak preview of the fabrication process used for the panels.
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Through 14 aprile 2013
Hironori Yoshida, Giacomo Cantoni e Pietro Pagliaro: Scan to Production
Ventura @ Work
Via Gaetano Crespi corner via del Canzi,
Zona Ventura, Lambrate, Milan
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