4-3. Paper Slip Lamination
Final Project
Collaboration with
Delara Rahim and Nima Shariat
Professor: Nathan KingSCI-6317 Material Systems: Digital Design and Fabrication
Harvard Graduate School of Design | Fall 2019
Paper Slip Lamination
This project is exploring ideas on layering and what that can do in the field of material study. The project started with ideas of the authenticity of craft and material and how that can be achieved with digital fabrication techniques. The interests in techniques and materiality of weaving, translucency, textile, resulted in a process-based material research that explored layering as a way to achieve the multicolored translucent affect. We looked at art examples that achieve this type of material quality with handcrafted ceramics, such as works of Emily O'Keeffe Connell and Jongjin Park where the material consists of imperfections of handwork, with multiple layers of colors and cavities that create translucencies. With these initial thoughts our research question arose: What are the qualities of the artifacts generated by the process of layered clay and paper. Can we recreate the process of ‘craft’ digitally and how can this layered system be implemented with digital fabrication technology? How can we use this system structurally and explore its structural limits as well as creating lightness with color experiments? And, how can this process be standardized to create a faster stream process. These are the questions that lead our project in researching the opportunities of layering methods. A series of trials showed different potentials of this fabrication method that hasn’t been explored enough in the fabrication field.
