A first experiment in ceramic 3D printing with porcelain.
The piece is built layer by layer from a digital model, extruded in porcelain paste. Each pass of the nozzle leaves a visible line, so the printing process itself becomes the surface texture.
Porcelain is not an easy material to print. It shrinks, slumps and cracks when the paste consistency, wall thickness or speed are slightly off. Most of this project was about finding those limits: how thin a wall can go, how wet the paste can be, how fast the nozzle can move before the form collapses.
The result is a set of test pieces rather than a finished product, and a working recipe for future printed work.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
3D clay printing, digital modelling

MATERIAL DETAILS
porcelain, 1240º

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