Discovering fusion of organic and industrial

The aim of the Rawtation project has been to discover the fusion between the organic and the industrial‫.‬ Adi Zaffran was working with the industrial process of plastic rotational molding when he discovered the potential for combining raw organic elements in the process‫.‬ Zaffran started trying to create a method where the meeting point between the organic and the synthetic was made by the rotational molding process without the need for cold joints or complex adjustments. In the manufacturing process pruned branches, trunks and foliage are used and combined with plastic to create the joints. Zaffran has been experimenting with 
different types of branches, bark or plants, letting each of them influence the shape of the final object and create something unique and personal. Polyethylene together with the raw organic elements are inserted to a metal mold, which is then heated and cooled while rotating. The plastic forms along the inner side of the mold and firmly fastens together the organic elements, especially while cooling and shrinking. From the manufacturing process a new esthetic language is created out of basic shapes and raw material‫.‬

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