For Milan Design Week 2025,, EcoLattice collaborated with Toyota Boshoku to develop an installation exploring AI-inspired growth and expansion. The project used lattice structures as its core design language, where form and performance were derived from pressure point data, translating human interaction into responsive material systems.
Rather than presenting seating as a static typology, the installation framed it as an evolving system. By integrating data, computation, and material behaviour, it investigated how seating could adapt, respond, and communicate different modes of use.
Translating Comfort Into Adaptive Systems
The project explored three seating modes representing a different relationship between the body, pressure distribution, and movement. For each mode, multiple design iterations were developed, resulting in a series of twelve seats.
Across these iterations, lattice geometry, density, form, proportion, colour, and surface articulation were continuously tested and refined. AI tools guided variations in structure and expression, allowing each seating mode to communicate its intent, whether through softness and support, openness and ease, or responsiveness and control.
One variation integrated air pockets within the lattice, enabling dynamic cushioning and localised adaptability. Influences from natural growth patterns, cellular structures, and biological systems informed surface behaviour, textures, and colour strategies, bridging computational design with organic expression.
Hybrid Manufacturing and Material Expression
The production process combined advanced manufacturing technologies to achieve both precision and adaptability. FDM (Fused Deposition Modelling) provided structural definition and scalability, while RLP (Rapid Liquid Printing) enabled fluid geometries and softer, responsive elements.
This hybrid approach allowed the system to move beyond rigid construction into a more dynamic material language, where structure and softness were resolved together. The resulting installation presented a vision of AI-generated seating systems that are adaptive, expressive, and capable of delivering what may be understood as living comfort.
Team EcoLattice
