GUDPAKA lamp represents the concept of Digital Crafting in its maximum expression. It brings together manufacturing processes and production from both the field of digital and technological to that of the artisan and low tech.
It is a game of opposites. Besides merging digital and traditional (in its manufacturing process), meets also the global and the local (in its design process), vegetable and animal (in its appearance), smooth shapes and flat faces (in its geometry), northern and southern (in the Chilean materials used).
The manufacturing process involved the development of a mold of cut and routed wood by CNC machinery for thermoforming the structure that supports the materials that converge on the lamp. The inner faces of Coigue plywood were cut by laser cutting machine, while the outer covering was woven by hand from waste material in the process of obtaining Alpaca wool.
Credits: Photographer: Gabriel Schkolnick CNC cutting (wood): NOT Fabrication Thermoforming: Roll-up Artisan processes: María Eugenia Durán, Arturo López Pérez Year: 2011 Materials: Interior: Coigue plywood 3.5 mm inside; thermoforming ABS structure; exterior in woven alpaca hair
