Laarman's team uses a 3D printer that was designed in-house, the MX3D, to print metals such as steel, aluminum, bronze and copper.
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The design for a forthcoming bridge being 3D-printed in stainless steel by Joris Laarman Lab.
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A collection of Laarman's furniture will be on display at New York's Cooper Hewitt, The Smithsonian Design Museum, alongside some of his other digitally-produced creations.
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One of Laarman's Maker Chair series will be made available for download to visitors to New York's Cooper Hewitt, The Smithsonian Design Museum.
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This series of tables was made from reprogrammable building blocks called voxels. It was built using industrial robots.
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Designed and 3D-printed in thermoplastic polyurethane, this chair is made from a soft, foam-like material that has been digitally engineered at a cellular level.
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Built by Joris Laarman in 2007, this 3D-printed chair is made from casting resin and white Carara marble dust, a by-product from the marble industry.
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This chair was created with algorithms that mimic bone growth. Using a large volume of computer-generated calculations, Laarman's program systematically adjusted and strengthened the chair's design.
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The lightweight aluminum used in this chair was "engineered on a cellular level... to create structural strength and rigidity," according to Joris Laarman Lab.
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Each of the 12 chairs in the Maker series is digitally fabricated and assembled from small printed parts, like a 3D puzzle.
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A wall decoration that doubles up as a climbing wall. Laarman hopes that it gives users a new perspective on the spaces below.
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The oldest item in the upcoming exhibition, the Heatwave Radiator was Laarman's design school thesis project. The curls create a large surface area, allowing heat to be more efficiently dispersed.
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The project will debut as a fully functional footbridge in Amsterdam next year.
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"We're more like a laboratory than a design studio," Laarman said. "We're trying to figure out what the design of the future will be -- what it could look like."
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Over a 14-year career, Laarman has worked at the intersection of design and technology.
