14 DAY TRIAL // You wouldn't expect an architect to actually start making clothing, especially if the way said clothing is made involves 3D printers, but London architect Daniel Widrig has just shown us that nothing is impossible.
The man doesn't claim to have entered the realm of fashion though. Instead, he has introduced what he calls "wearable sculptures."
Although we suppose the word "sculpture" doesn't technically apply, since 3D printers "grow" things out of material instead of chipping at stone, metal or clay.
That aside, Daniel Widrig has introduced a sculpture that looks like an exoskeleton, or part of an exoskeleton you let hang behind your neck.
More precisely, it reaches from the base of your neck to the middle of your back and makes you look like something out of Alien vs. Predator.
"We have been working with body related objects for a while now," Widrig told Dezeen.
"We originally worked with mannequins which we sculpted ourselves based on standard model sizes. Nevertheless we wanted to go a step further this time and create customized objects that literally merge with the human body."
Belgian 3D printing company Materialize made the things from polyamide/nylon powder via selective laser sintering.
There are several sculptures at the moment, and they were all presented at Design Miami as the Kinesis collection.
The products can be customized by 3D scanning a person's body and then adjusting the model accordingly before actually bringing it into the physical reality.
"Every body is unique and has its individual oddities, so 3D scanning is the only way to manage a total blending between a specific body's topography and the designed geometry," Widrig explained.
The Kinesis is described as a set. Two pieces are meant to be worn around the neck (the skeleton and a neckpiece resembling a contracting and expanding muscular system) and the third as an "inflated skin wrapping around the model's breast and neck area."
