On progress BPA preparation for Hongkong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture

Budi Pradono in conversation with Robert Powell October 2009

SOFT GATE: Budi Pradono Architects [BPA] exhibition at Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, Sept 25, 2009-January 10 2010, NAI rotterdam The Netherlands

Budi Pradono Architects[BPA] exhibition of ongoing research on border device of gated community in sub-urban area of Jakarta at IABR, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam; Open City: Designing Coexistence

Soft gate: Cooperate, Insinuate, bargain, permeable boundaries, and porous architecture.

BPA team: Budi Pradono, Yuli Sri hartanto, Anton Suryono, Adam Modligani Prana, Rina Nur Aisay, Primaldi Perdana, Reini Mailisa

Thanks to Erick Prasetya, for photography report on the research project and Eko Nugroho for his Wayang instalation at NAI, Rotterdam.

final preparation for exhibition space, Taipei Taiwan september 2009

Budi Pradono in conversation with Thomas Lee, Deba Shu, Mac, Ken Young, and Tiffany Chen, Taipei, ROC, 9-10 September 2009

Super Form Chair from giant bubbles by Rich Gilbert

SuperFoam Chair, a chair made of foam with giant bubbles by designer Rich Gilbert

I’m currently studying Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London and recently produced the SuperFoam chair.

SuperFoam is an experiment in trying to create a super-sized foamed structure, in developing a specialized casting process I could design the properties of the foam itself so it flexed and deformed to create the chair structure.

What if we had the power to manipulate nature’s structures? SuperFoam is a re-creation of naturally occurring reticulated foam structures through a casting process that facilitates designing the properties of the foam itself. By developing the casting process the properties of the foam could be controlled so the chair flexed and deformed to create a supportive structure.