Compiled by Leah Linhares
Photography: Courtesy Nervous
System
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| Kinematic Textile Petals |
Marrying art with
technology, Nervous System brings forth a fresh look in fashion with its new
project: Kinematic Petals Dress, using a fold strategy, which reduces the size
of the dress by 85%, making it printable as a single piece…
Commissioned by the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), designers Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse
Louis-Rosenberg have created
a custom-fit, 3D-printed dress for Nervous System’s MFA’s exhibition:
#techstyle, which runs from March 6 through July 10, 2016.
Drawing inspiration from
petals, feathers and scales, Nervous System has developed a new textile
language for Kinematics (the features or
properties of motion in an object; in this context - a system for creating custom-fit 3D
printing clothing), where the interconnected elements are articulated as
imbricating shells. Made up of thousands of interlocking parts, this dress can
be customized to the wearer’s body through a 3D scan, where each element is
individually customizable: varying in direction, length, and shape.
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The dress is 3D-printed in
durable nylon plastic; the design composed of
more than 1600 unique
pieces interconnected by more than 2600 hinges
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It emerges from the 3D printer fully assembled and ready to wear
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| Each interlocking component of the dress is rigid, but, in aggregate, they behave as a continuous textile |
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| Petals protrude from the underlying framework of tessellated triangular panels, sheathing the body in a directional landscape of overlapping plumes |
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A smart folding strategy is
employed to compress Kinematics garments into a smaller form for efficient
fabrication.
By folding the garments prior to printing them, it makes complex
structures larger than a 3D printer
that unfolds into their intended shape
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New design software and
simulation tools have been developed to make this dress possible
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