Our Services
We are a design for additive manufacturing company focusing on medical, structural, industrial, and fashion. We offer our novel Voxel Modeling and Bitmap Printing technology to design, analyze, and produce advanced 3D printed objects. We provide services in the following areas:
+Presurgical planning models
+Clinical Trial support for 3D Printing
+Surgical training models
+Data Driven Prosthetics
+Surgical Tools and Clinical Accessories
+Research Support
+Multimodal Data Fusion of 3D Data
+Voxel based volumetric Finite Element Analysis
+Multimaterial 3D prints of volumetric structural components
+Multi-material lattice structures
+Multimaterial topology optimization analysis and 3D prints
+Bespoke design technology consulting
+3D printed textiles
+Algorithmic 3D design and fabrication
WORK
Our work combines design with science and technological innovation to create cutting-edge digital fabrication tools and technologies specifically designed for the people they serve.
What sets this work apart is that we intentionally operate at the intersection of computational design, digital fabrication, materials science, and synthetic biology. By synthesizing the knowledge of these fields, we seek to design across disciplines and scales and see them as inseparable and harmonized dimensions of design. This allows for creating novel and specialized digital fabrication tools and technologies—for clinicians and designers—that engage computational design, digital fabrication, biology, and their subject materials as inseparable and harmonized design dimensions. With this approach, the products and methods are designed side by side with clinicians in the operating room—environmentally informed, computationally augmented, and, digitally manufactured on-site. The resulting interfaces include mechanically accurate patient-specific 3D-printed models for presurgical planning, prosthetics, and implants, a 3D-printed training model for bronchoscopy, and an interactive VR experience for digital anesthesia.
Pairing the creation of novel technologies for digital fabrication with speculative design, we strive to rethink the future of designs that bring together the clinicians, the body, the building, and the environment in the bio-digital age.
RESEARCH
We conduct research at the intersection of computational design, digital fabrication, and clinical biology, allowing for the direct application of this knowledge to design across scales from the cellular scale to the building scale. We create biologically inspired and engineered design fabrication tools and technologies to enhance the relationship between design and the cutting edge of science in the clinical world. Form and function work together in tandem - one does not follow the other - they walk hand in hand. My research focus area, Tangible Intelligence, integrates computational form and function-finding strategies with digital fabrication using real-time data and experience. This design approach enables the mediation between doctors and the tools they need, between patients and the tools they need, and between doctors and patients.
We aim to enhance the relationship between cutting-edge design and clinical environments by achieving high design customization and versatility. We seek to establish new techniques and novel design practice processes at the intersection of the boundaries between computer science, material engineering, biology, and physiology. This integration of multiple disciplines in the design and creation of specialized tools for clinicians can be applied to many broad applications across multiple scales.
TEAM
This work is a true collaborative team effort involving designers, architects, mechanical engineers, computer sicentists, clinicians, radiologists, and surgeons across a variety of disciplines to propel the work and research foward. This team collaborates to offer meaningful and advanced solutions to some of today’s most challenging issues in the medical, design, engineering, fashion, and architecture worlds.