Emerging Objects

Emerging Objects An independent, creatively driven, MAKE-tank at the forefront of 3D printing architecture using innovative materials.

Our research and designs focus on the development of innovative materials for large format 3D printing, expanding the potential of additive manufacturing to serve the fields of architecture, interior design, furniture design and product design. Our design research has served as the foundation for our consulting projects and we work with a range of industrial partners, nonprofit foundations and cre

ative practices. Emerging Objects is interested in the creation of 3D printed buildings, building components and interior accessories that can be seen as sustainable, inexpensive, stronger, smarter, recyclable, customizable and perhaps even reparable to the environment. We want to 3D print long-lasting performance-based designs for the built environment using raw materials that have strength, tactility, cultural associations, relevance and beauty. Because the inherent nature of 3D printing opens new possibilities for shaping materials, this process will reshape the way we as a society think about manufacturing and construction. Though rapid manufacturing, geometries can be created that would be impossible to create by hand or require expensive machinery to produce or reproduce. Because additive manufacturing requires no dies or molds, products can be mass-customized, employing the flexibility of computer-aided manufacturing systems, rather than mass- produced, allowing design parameters to be quick. 3D printing is also a fabrication method that minimizes waste which makes it an environmentally conscious method of manufacturing.

06/02/2023
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05/16/2023

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Frontiers of Art & Design Design can be a tool for activism. Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello are architects and alchemists who explore how to use design to build cultural and social bridges, tell stories, rethink materials, and make emerging technologies more accessible and equitable. Rael and...

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/designed-podcast -Rael-and-Virginia-San-Fratello
03/27/2023

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/designed-podcast -Rael-and-Virginia-San-Fratello

Every other week, the podcast will feature guests from top firms all over the world, working at every scale, and sharing their professional highs and lows, as well as lessons learned throughout their careers.

https://adfilmfest.com/adff/films_van2021/2483
11/07/2021

https://adfilmfest.com/adff/films_van2021/2483

Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderland is about Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello and their work to connect contemporary technology with the legacy of pottery making and adobe architecture in the Southwest. Mud Frontiers, the name of their project, uses 3D-printing technology to build adob...

05/12/2021

The architect-designer Virginia San Fratello explicates the connections between wandering and her experiments in 3D printing.

We are excited to announce POTTERWARE.com — a complete resource for 3D printing with clay using POTTERWARE 4.0, a unique...
01/02/2021

We are excited to announce POTTERWARE.com — a complete resource for 3D printing with clay using POTTERWARE 4.0, a unique design application with features that allow you to be creative! POTTERWARE.com is an incredible resource of tutorials and documentation that makes all the unique features of POTTERWARE easy to understand, with videos, images, and text descriptions of each tool—perfect for the classroom, business or the independent ceramic artist, POTTERWARE.com helps you be more creative with 3D printed clay.

An intuitive design application for 3D Printing ceramics allowing you to be creative without needing to learn 3d modeling

11/24/2020

For their Art + Technology Lab project, MUD Frontiers / Zoquetes Fronterizos, grant recipients Virginia San Fratello and Ronald Rael are re-examining Indigenous mud-based materials through 21st-century robotics. The artists hoped to work in Los Angeles, and examine the city's past in relation to its...

11/24/2020

Three visions for a hypothetical pandemic memorial.

11/04/2020

The Oakland-based studio hosts a virtual project visit and conversation.

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