Imagine a solar powered machine with the ability to make stunning unique pieces of furniture. Although it sounds like something out of an environmentally themed science fiction film, Viennese designers Mischer’Traxler have created such a machine.
Their amazing invention —Idea of a Tree — turns the energy of the sun into one-of-a-kind organic furniture pieces with the size, shape and color of the products determined by the intensity of sunlight available during the creation of the piece. Object colors vary according to sun intensity; more sun creates a paler color and less sun creates a darker color.
The Idea of a Tree machine has the ability to make benches and lamps by pulling thread through a dye tank and resin tank and then wrapping it around a solar-powered mold.
Recently displayed at the Berlin International Design Festival, the designers describe their machine as, “…an autonomous mechanical production process which is a hybrid combination of natural input and mechanical process. It involves the translation of natural inputs through a mechanical apparatus in order to create one object a day”.
Each object reflects the sunshine and environmental conditions that occurred while the object was being made.
“Like a tree the object becomes a three dimensional recording of its process and time of creation,” explain the designers.
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