Tool-Hide
Ruy Klein, 2006

This project manipulates the technical limitations of CNC milling to produce ornamentation, using animal hides as a conceptual starting point. A set of four oversize closet doors were fabricated and then staggered in an overlapping pattern.

The fabrication technique carefully managed the size of the router bit with a corresponding network of manipulated tooling paths to produce a cellular pattern of “scallops”— artifacts of a crude pass over the digitally formed surface geometry.

Left unsanded, the tactile surface bore a texture akin to an elephant or iguana skin.

Concept related to iguana skin.

Tool paths.

Surface sample tests

Surface sample tests

Book Reference:

Digital Fabrications Architectural and Material Techniques by Lisa Iwamoto 
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