Welcome to the 3D-print and -scan lab of the School of Arts Ghent.
Notice to students: we'll try to include every project but if the preparation takes longer than an hour we'll have to plan according to the current situation.

Location: Offerlaan 5, 9000 Gent, first floor

Open on
Monday Wednesday Friday
10:00 - 16:30 10:00 - 16:30 09:00 - 12:30

Thanks to Edwin Carels, the Fallen astronaut by Paul Van Hoeydonck had a chance to carefully study the Formlab made moon regolith at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam.

Jerry Galle took a few calibration-prints home from Formlab. He showed them to his AI script and asked it to write a description of them. Read the results on this webpage.

Jo Boonen printed models of high-rise sites in Ghent for his research BLOK.

Régis Dragonetti wrote a nice introductory text about the formlab. It appeared in the publication 'Onrust', but is online too (in Dutch).

Thomas Willemen uses the vacuum form machine to shrink a plastic membrane around a cube frame.

Jerry Galle's 3D printed sculptures are still a few days on display in the 'Volatile Truths' exhibition at Rainbow Unicorn in Berlin.

Lukas Haanoule worked on a series of experiments involving found objects and purpose made moulds.

Setting up a urinal object for the series 'AI Object recognition, infrathin' by Jerry Galle.

Bram De Man scanned the back of a Biancato guitar to analyse its curvature.

Maria inspects a new print. It's a 3D printed, Petri dish sized mountain range which will set the stage for the second video in the Petrilogy series. A Laboratorum and Formlab collaboration.

HISK laureate Lisa Wilkens printed this extruded word 'MEHR'

Anouk De Clercq designed a sleeve that would both house the book 'Thing' and the USB stick containing a video.

Clamp element for a scultpure by Carsten Henrion.

Marta Calatayud Arroyo needed a cutstom bacteria cradle to find out how differents species of bacteria living together influence each other.

Pieterjan Boucneau assembles his multi part bridge study 'Ponte Sul Basento'.

A 3D scan of tape wrapped bananas by Kamiel De Waal.

New Species, by Elisa d'Urbano.

Thumbfoot by Rébecca Brunet.

23'

23′ Download: Using and reusing data of a 23′ minute Nasa download in progress. A work by Jerry Galle.

The first test with plasticine with the Hyrel EMO-25 print head.