Fabripod
Digital Design and Fabrication
About
The catalyst for novel emergent form is often found somewhere between rigorous enquiry and impeccable execution.
Fabripod is a studio and testing ground for experimental digital design and fabrication. the name comes from both Greek and Latin: Fabricate (to fashion, make, or build) and Pod (meaning foot or leg) and also with loose association with growing organisms (seed pod) and dwellings or collective communities (whale pod). The name attempts to encapsulate the ideas of making, automation growth and self organization into a single word. The ongoing work of the studio aims for the same goal: to uncover new ways of using systemic and process based tools for design optimization and fabrication.
"investigations that question issues and fundamental as what constitutes boundary and edge for the organization and definition of space and activity are not going to do so with broad brush strokes but through smaller controlled experiments focused on producing difference within an existing framework of technologies and materials "
Hensel & Menges et al. Morpho Ecologies 2006
Team
Chris Chalmers
Principal
Chris Chalmers holds a BARCH (2002) from the University of Oregon and a MARCH (2008) from California College of the Arts. He has over 10 years experience working for architecture firms in Oregon and California and now splits his time between consulting in digital design and fabrication and programming apps and websites.
Contact Chris using the form below to enquire about digital fabrication and parametric design consulting.
More Work
Fabripod engages in work that is both theoretical and practical, frequently using one approach to inform the other. Our projects explore the usage of computational design to extend the artists capabilities: expanding capacity to manage detail and precision, uncovering emergent phenomena and exploring the intersection of cutting edge science, philosophy and the arts. Often, our work is focused on the creation of novel tools or techniques, as much as it is on the outcome. Our mission is, in a large part, to further the practice of art and architecture by sharing our findings. Collaboration with like minded explorers and visionaries to co-create new pathways is our favorite way of working.
