Foundry
Small Series Workshop
D'days 2016
The Roquevaire Foundry is a traditional foundry based in Roquevaire, in the South of France.
This project aims to modernize the ancestral technique of making cast iron and originally a graphic search inspired by the patterns of manhole cover.
The use of 3D printing pattern of a fine and precise on a cast iron surface was an opportunity to test the limits of the material.
We questioned both the notion of weight and our design focus on the game world, a game of balance and imbalance in relation to the important density of the cast iron.
In addition we have considered the game by causing the user to compose his own space by moving an object from one medium to another.
Willingness to push the limits of an ancestral technique of the treatment of cast iron while questioning the user on the place of this material within our environment and the use that one makes of it.
