Disonancias

Project developed: Applications for perforated sheet metal and expanded metal, mainly in the field of construction and urban furniture.
Research commissioned: O-Void

The O-Void Project is an investigation that explores two main subjects: the design of complex-shaped spatial structures in perforated metal plate, and the production of variable perforations in order to create customised lighting effects and/or see their ornamental possibilities. This is a creative search for new formal and material possibilities, which emerge from the use of advanced CAD/CAM digital technologies for design and manufacture. In particular, O-Void arises from research into parametric design processes, developed by ReD, associated with the knowledge of the material and manufacturing methods contributed by IMAR.

O-Void is an egg-shaped construction that generates a habitable space, assembled with panels with variable perforation and different dimensions one from another. The perforations provide different effects of luminosity and visibility through each of the panels, constituting the base of a flexible construction system of free metal frontages (due to their non-existent geometric limitation), which are ornamental (because of their aesthetic expressivity) and functionally efficient (because of their capacity to filter light and provide transparency in precise and specific situations). O-Void is, therefore, a concept that not only refers to the global form of the project or to the space it designs within its interior, but also illustrates the "O" –shaped perforations in its surprising texture.