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The combination of carbon fiber technology with a morphology of organic complexity allows us to achieve super-thin, super-light, and super-robust creatures. The large hovering plane seems to slice through the space like a wing. The original idea for both the table and the desk is the generative principle of developing the legs from the table surface through a cut and fold technique. This technique leaves a hole in the table top surface which reveals the generative move and allows the eye to trace the legs' trajectory. The legs are involuting from within the inner depth of the surface, thus projecting the table edge as a tapering cantilever.
The two objects are like two individuals born of the same geno-type- each adapted to its specific purpose. Their underlying body-plan is the same: if we take the Seoul Table as the first instantiation of the underlying geno-type we can explain the Seoul Desk as an adaptive mutation. One of the two planes that served as leg, as it were, has been pulled up and bent to form a shelf underneath the table top. In turn, the remaining leg had to grow and re-form in order to carry and balance the whole system as a dramatic cantilevering system.
The Seoul Table and Seoul Desk constitute our latest advance in the quest to create environments and products that emulate nature and go beyond nature in the creation of a second nature. Our designs utilize the stratagems of surface folding, modulation, organic inter-articulation and smooth transitioning between parts. To implement these nature-like stratagems we employ the power of computational geometry and digital simulation. This second nature thus re-enacts the principles of morphogenesis without relying on the direct mimesis of natural models.
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