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LAB / 011 / 2024

SOFT MACHINE

Industrial objects with the wrong material memory.

Machined metal component slumping like fabric

Medium

Object study

Machined aluminium that folds like cloth. A bearing that sags. Precision behaving softly.

The interest is not the trick. It is that the object still looks engineered.

A machined aluminium bracket folding like heavy cloth

Discarded

A machine that looks soft still has to look like a machine.

Discarded process frame from the soft machine study
REJECT / 01

The silhouette collapsed. Softness without an internal frame is a cushion, not a device.

Discarded process frame from the soft machine study
REJECT / 02

The other extreme: every rib visible, the fabric doing nothing.

An ongoing series. It has no end condition.

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