Modular Continuity

You may have seen these architectural panels before in buildings or at Knoll showrooms or in Interior Design Magazine but maybe you don't know the designer or how they are made. The artist is Erwin Hauer and he started creating these panels in the 50's. He wanted to explore the idea of infinite continuous surfaces, room screening and light filtering effects. He started by creating complex molds that he would use to cast stone. He would create modular panels that when installed together created a continuous surface design.

  

His panels were used more as art installations and he continued this way for almost 50 years. In the early 2000's one of his former Yale students, Enrique Rosado, teamed with Hauer to digitize his design. Now they use digital files and CNC machines to create panels from MDF, stone, or concrete. Now if we can just get Ikea to carry them.