MICHAEL SOUTH

PORTFOLIO.2024

Michael South is a multi-disciplinary designer working across architecture, furniture and textiles. After graduating from the Pratt School of Architecture, he founded Studio Ooni, a practice focused on custom furniture design and fabrication.

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Selected Professional Work
GLOW + FLOW - HAWTHORNE, CA

StudioOoni - Custom Furniture/Millwork
FLOATING SHELVING UNIT
GREENPOINT HEADBOARD
POLK RECORD CABINET
RISON CABINETS
Ooni LAMP V.1
Ooni LAMP V.2
SANCTUARY HEALTH - PATCHOGUE, NY
MATERIAL LIBRARY - EDG
OBSCURE COFFEE ROASTERS

Selected Undergraduate Work - Pratt Institute
NASA X-HAB --------4th Year
THESIS ------------5th Year
CLAY 3D PRINTING --5th Year

Unit Studio - Fashion
CANOPY JACKET
  U-SHORTS
HOODED ANORAK
  FOUR POCKET BUTTON-UP
  FRENCH TERRY WORK JACKET
GUNNER SMOCK

michaelsouth33@gmail.com
@michaelsouth14
@studio.ooni
@unit.nyc
LinkedIn

06 CLAY 3D PRINTING

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Successful Prints

Beginning of Full Arch Assembly

Failed Test Print

Printing Snapshots

Full Arch Assembly Render

Thermal Performance of Proposal

Thermal Performance of Triply Curved Surfaces

Clay 3D Printing:
Hollow Voussoir
01/2022 - 05/2022

DEUS: 088/26812—81
REX-13: 978-0882681/283

Using hollow voussoir geometries from historic Russian bath houses as the precedent for this study, the goal of this project was to investigate the validity of clay 3D printing in achieving certain desired thermal qualities.

Rigorous research was conducted on the voussoir geometry and how it functioned, in order to design a new voussoir that could be optimized with cutting edge 3D printing. 3D printing allows for the control of the location for the deposition of material.

By adding doubly and triply curved surfaces to the existent hollow voussoir geometry, we were able to effectively double and triple the thermal lag. At the same time, the porosity of these surfaces still allows for high flow thermal convection.