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London, United Kingdom
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Other Projects by PiM.studio Architects
Sound of marble
London, United Kingdom
The sound of marble designed by PiM.studio for Silvestri Marmi
The Italian and Tuscan marbles are known and appreciated in the world for their beautiful textures and their elegance.
This project aims to bring out the specific history of each slab from the quarry to its processing and to embed this process permanently on the surface of the marble slab itself.
We use narrative as a design tool to shape a material experience.
Texture 01 - Wave
This texture tells the story of the marble block as it was cut in the quarry.
We recorded the sound wave produced by the stone cutting machine and, through a computer-generated script, we used the sound wave as a creative agent transforming an initial uniform grid into an organic beautiful pattern.
The result is a soft, tactile surface in which the experience and history of the marble are embedded forever in its texture, inviting you to touch it for a sensorial adventure.
The 3d pattern has been realised with a 7-axis CNC machine on roughly 3m x 2m slabs.
The design is available on a modular option on 240cm by 160cm with matching edges for creating continuous surfaces.
The pattern can slow be entirely customised both in dimensions and in the pattern design itself: the same design generative strategy can be applied to the pattern by using a different sound wave to generate a highly personalised design unique to a specific project.
Texture 2- Falling Diamonds
Eight different tiles of falling diamonds.
The traditional marble inlaying technique of 'intarsio' (inlay) is combined here with a computer-generated pattern.
Starting from a single diamond shape, an algorithm is used to represent the sound of the stone blocks falling in the quarry after being cut.
The shapes multiply, rotate and merge into each other as they fall.
During the fall, where black and grey marble merge, they change into brass expressing the entropy growth generated by the encounter.
The Italian and Tuscan marbles are known and appreciated in the world for their beautiful textures and their elegance.
This project aims to bring out the specific history of each slab from the quarry to its processing and to embed this process permanently on the surface of the marble slab itself.
We use narrative as a design tool to shape a material experience.
Texture 01 - Wave
This texture tells the story of the marble block as it was cut in the quarry.
We recorded the sound wave produced by the stone cutting machine and, through a computer-generated script, we used the sound wave as a creative agent transforming an initial uniform grid into an organic beautiful pattern.
The result is a soft, tactile surface in which the experience and history of the marble are embedded forever in its texture, inviting you to touch it for a sensorial adventure.
The 3d pattern has been realised with a 7-axis CNC machine on roughly 3m x 2m slabs.
The design is available on a modular option on 240cm by 160cm with matching edges for creating continuous surfaces.
The pattern can slow be entirely customised both in dimensions and in the pattern design itself: the same design generative strategy can be applied to the pattern by using a different sound wave to generate a highly personalised design unique to a specific project.
Texture 2- Falling Diamonds
Eight different tiles of falling diamonds.
The traditional marble inlaying technique of 'intarsio' (inlay) is combined here with a computer-generated pattern.
Starting from a single diamond shape, an algorithm is used to represent the sound of the stone blocks falling in the quarry after being cut.
The shapes multiply, rotate and merge into each other as they fall.
During the fall, where black and grey marble merge, they change into brass expressing the entropy growth generated by the encounter.
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