Questo prototipo fa parte del nostro progetto di ricerca basato sulla creazione di un procedimento di stampa 3D di roccia vulcanica. Nello specifico, l'espressione di questo pezzo articola variabili come la variazione dei percorsi di stampa (da un cerchio semplice a uno irregolare), l'estrusione del materiale vulcanico, la gravità, le curve delle temperature di fusione, i colori, e altre. L'oggetto risultante è un pezzo che sarebbe impossibile realizzare in pietra coi metodi tradizionali (quali scultura o incisione). Questa ricerca persegue l'amplificazione dell'espressione del procedimento di design e produzione, invitandoci a riflettere sulla stampa 3D (processo di fabbricazione aggiuntiva) come un qualsiasi altro strumento di produzione con la propria espressione materiale. gt2P is a studio involved in projects of architecture, art and design, established in Santiago, Chile. The studio is in a continuous process of research and experimentation in digital crafting, promoting new encounters between the technologies for projecting and the richness of the local expressed in traditional materials and techniques. Their methodology has two dimensions. First, they seek to systematize knowledge and observation, whether of natural, artificial, geometric or spatial, phenomena, through generative algorithms. Here parametric design is a tool to guide the planning of projects that they carry out, enabling the integration of its stages of design, development and production. On the other hand, they have discovered an artistic dimension that connect them with their cultural heritage, through the incorporation of traditional experience and knowledge that feed and qualify the generative algorithms or DNA that they create. Exposing the unexpectedness of manual processes and local materials is a way to value what they are in what they do. gt2P’s work is held in permanent collections worldwide such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York, the London Design Museum, the Denver Art Museum in Colorado and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. The collective is represented by the New York gallery based Friedman Benda. Why Milano: First of all Milano is the Place where we started showing our work. First it was at the satellite and Lambrate at the same time, then Rossana Orlandi and Cappelini Space, (3 or 4 years in a row maybe). Can you imagine all the people we met there!!! ? They are still very good friends like Floris Wubben, Rutger De Regt, Giorgio Bonnaguro, Marco Tabasso, Tati Uzlova (sorry if I miss someone) alse we met important persona like Giulio Cappelini that gives us a space to show during Salone. Also we met incredibile journalist like Wava Carpenters, Anna Carnick, Siegrid Demyttenaere, Domitilla Dardi and of course Annalisa, who are supporting us during these years… and we will no talk about the amazing memories there (Bar Basso for example) hahahahah So as you can see we owe a lot to this city So is there a way to say no, basicaly is little way to say thank you to this amazing city