gt2p Great things to people
Chile
Great things to people (gt2P) is a Chilean studio in a continuous process of research and experimentation in production, technical, functional and aesthetic terms always in search of new proposals.
Its interest in the systematization of geometric, spatial, natural or artificial phenomena by identifying their parameters (geometry, size, material, etc.) allows creating generative algorithms that can control the form and function.
Through this concept gt2P has succeeded in communicating its ability to investigate, explore and experiment with new materials and processes, and integrate technologies CAD/CAM with traditional knowledge.
GUDPAKA lamp represents the concept of Digital Crafting in its maximum expression. It brings together manufacturing processes and production from both the field of digital and technological to that of the artisan and low tech. It is a game of opposites. Besides merging digital and traditional, meets also the global and the local, vegetable and animal, smooth shapes and flat faces, northern and southern (in the Chilean materials used).
ROYAL MAHUIDA (which means ‘Native Forest’ in Mapuche Chilean natives’ language) is a tribute to the Inca Empire, devastated by Spanish conquerors. Incas, according to local traditional stories, had to bury and hide their gold in the Chilean native forest.
This collection gets its geometry from the spiral growing of Araucaria (a native tree from Chilean forests), Royal Mahuida is made of bronze, a noble material that resembles gold, through die-casting in molds copied from 3D printed models.
Tarrugao (ceramics)
Tarrugao collection is the manifestation of the fleeting presence of life on a rigid surface. Each jar reacts to human intervention and the action of taking or hugging each piece is materialized in its essence. The geometric features of all pieces together form a “still life” of parameterized objects of daily use.
That unique moment is captured in each Tarrugao (está + arrugado = being wrinkled), depending on the place and the pressure that is on it. The result of this pressure is a soft surface wrinkled waiting for a careful human interaction. Just as the embrace of reconciliation when Chile returned to democracy.