visible structures – 大作社

High Museum, Atlanta

2011.04

for High Museum

Thanks to its lightness and toughness, carbon fiber furniture can take on a multitude of different forms. As a result, the carbon fiber furniture has gained an almost stereotypical futuristic image.

由于其轻盈和坚韧，碳纤维家具可以采用多种不同的形式。结果，碳纤维家具获得了几乎陈规定型的未来主义形象。

For this collection, we wanted to explore new possibilities for expression by using carbon fiber in a supporting role to emphasize and accentuate the main material, rather than as the star in its own right. We arrived at this idea after thinking about carbon fiber’s use as a supporting building material, a technique developed after the Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. Wrapped around pillars or bridge girders, carbon fiber cladding can provide additional seismic resistance for civil engineering works that would be difficult to reinforce against earthquakes through traditional methods.

对于这个系列，我们希望通过使用碳纤维作为辅助来探索表达的新可能性，以强调和强调主要材料，而不是作为自己的明星。我们在考虑碳纤维作为支撑建筑材料的使用后得出了这个想法，这是1995年阪神地震后开发的一种技术。围绕柱子或桥梁缠绕，碳纤维覆层可以为土木工程提供额外的抗震能力通过传统方法加强地震。

Carbon fiber bends when used on its own, but when used to ‘sandwich’ weaker materials like cardboard and polystyrene, the other material’s compressed strength works to suppress its pliancy, creating a strong, light composite material. Adhering the carbon fibers to the surface like tape or a sticker achieves the strength necessary for furniture.

碳纤维在单独使用时会弯曲，但当用于“夹住”较硬的材料（如纸板和聚苯乙烯）时，其他材料的压缩强度会抑制其柔韧性，从而形成坚固，轻质的复合材料。将碳纤维粘附到表面上，如胶带或贴纸，可实现家具所需的强度。

This new method of making overturns both the traditional composition of internal structure and external cladding and the basic manufacturing process in which the structure is first formed then finished common to both architecture and furniture, ultimately reorganizing the relationship between structural form and surface material.

这种推翻内部结构和外部包层的传统组成的新方法和首先形成结构的基本制造工艺然后完成了建筑和家具的共同，最终重新组织结构形式和表面材料之间的关系。