Wonderlab Research Cluster 4 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2016
1.51 Figs. 1.50 – 1.51 MickeyMatter ‘MetaBall-ism’. Fig. 1.50 Robotic assembly process of the first MickeyMatter chair. The chair is made out of two scales of plastic elements. A sphere-based geometry is used to allow the blocks to slide into place without a high level of precision in order to facilitate assemblage with a rapid robotic pick and place mechanism using air suction. The building blocks are lightweight and are prefabricated with injection moulding using aluminium moulds and plastic pellet extruder. Fig. 1.51 Close-up of the MickeyMatter chair. The computational method based on a combinatorial system enables the combination of discrete elements in different rotations and produces high levels of heterogeneity on different scales. 39