Generico Chair is a new kind of furniture created by the German designers Marco Hemmerling and Ulrich Nether, based on generative and additive manufacturing technologies by following the parametric method in design, using FEM-software to create the 3D computer model.
Courtesy of Dirk Schelpmeier
The concept of iterative in design reduced parts of the volume, but the product still held comfort and all functional requirements.\
Project info:
Architects: Marco Hemmerling, Ulrich Nether
Country: Germany, Cologne
Photographs: Courtesy of Dirk Schelpmeier
FEM-calculation: Mathias michel, imagine structure
3D-printing: Stratasys
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