Digital Fabrication + Spatial Printing

Over the last two decades, digital fabrication tools such as laser cutting, 3D printing, and CNC milling machines have become broadly accessible to designers. The design and manufacturing workflow allows us to build a complex, tangible model directly from digital data. However, due to limitations of size and workable materials, it has not been widely used throughout the construction industry.     
 

Building an Enduring Relationship - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

In an ongoing relationship that was developed in 2001, BNIM has worked with the Nelson museum on 56 separate projects over 17 years. Projects include galleries, museum signage and wayfinding, the Ford Learning Center with classrooms and a reference library, sculpture hall renovations, a new parking structure and entry plaza, property acquirement feasibility studies, and the Bloch Building addition, among others.