Pangeia LAB

     Pangeia Lab is a Brazilian pioneering company in robotic 3D printing, operating one of the first large-scale robotic arm additive manufacturing setups in the country. They commissioned a series of furniture and lighting designs to be produced and sold directly through their platform.

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     I led the conceptual and parametric design of a collection of pieces including coffee tables, side tables, and lighting fixtures, all conceived specifically for robotic 3D printing production. I developed every design in Rhino and Grasshopper, with the constraints and possibilities of the robotic fabrication process guiding the formal decisions from the start. Beyond the design itself, I collaborated with the Pangeia Lab team to build an automatic GCode generation pipeline directly in Grasshopper, and worked on the translation layer between that output and the robotic arm's motion control system. Since 6-axis robotic arms do not natively run off GCode, I helped solve the conversion process between the parametric output and the arm's machine instructions, using Grasshopper to implement tweaks that ensured the geometry translated correctly into the arm's movement. The result was a single integrated workflow from parametric model to physical fabrication.

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     This collection is where design and fabrication are inseparable, each piece conceived from the ground up to be produced by a machine that rewards geometric complexity and formal experimentation that would be impossible through conventional manufacturing.