Ultmaker helped us to innovate
the way we design our projects
Because it helped to visualize the
projects and to be much clearer and faster
I've been in Dubai for now 20 years
And then I started killa design
about four and a half years ago
We are doing buildings which are timeless
sustainable
Attribute to the urban grain and the city as a whole
While designing the Office of the
Future, which is a 3D printed building
It's actually the first occupied 3D
printed office building in the world
We were working with a 3D
printing concrete company in China
That had the elements which they said, you got to deal with these elements and these constraints
We were using 3d printers as well to kind of
understand how we could use these cassettes.
The client was also very excited about
that we were using 3D printing in the office
And at the same time they were
3D printing the concrete cassettes
That we're going to actually make the building together
At the same time we were
designing the Museum of the Future
And the Museum of the Future is
an incredibly complicated building
In fact last year it won the most complicated, or
voted the most complicated building in the world
which is being build currently
Frankly, the floor plates of the only thing
which are flat in the entire building
Everything else is curvaceous
the overall form is parametrically designed
And then we took the calligraphy, and we
needed to apply it to yet another 3D form
You need your brain to work in a
complete three-dimensional environment
As much as your brain can be
good, you have some limitation
That's why we had to have some external tools
In that case our 3D printer was extremely helpful
At the entrance of the Museum of the Future
There is a big sculpture of His
Highness Sheikh Mohammed's hand
The sculpture is around 12 meters high
it's going to be like completely polished
with a stainless steel chrome finish
Any single mistake will be reflected and you will see it
So we started with the first model and we brought
that actually to the workshop with the manufacturer
and together we looked at the 3D model
and we we marked the areas that needed to be fixed
Even by touching the model you could actually see,
Okay, there is a bit of a bump here
We literally took notes with the marker on the 3D model
So then we came back to the
office, optimized again, 3D print again
another session with a manufacturer
and eventually then we got the final shape
which is actually under construction right now
Five or six years ago
I was still used to do a physical model by hand
And obviously you have big limitation on shape and time
while having an Ultimaker 3D printer,
it helps us to innovate the process of design
and eventually will help us to coordinate problems
much clearer and to have a better project at the end
