Welcome to the 3D-print and -scan lab of the School of Arts Ghent
Open on
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Work on your own 09:00 - 10:00 09:00 - 10:00
With assistance 10:00 - 16:30 10:00 - 16:30 09:00 - 12:30

Formlab will be closed on Friday december 13th

From December 2024 Formlab uses new prices.

Notice to students: we'll try to include every project but if the preparation takes longer than an hour we'll have to plan according to the current situation.

Greta Facchinato experiments with a pen plotter questioning if it possible to apply the craft of ink-making to digital technology
Pei-Hsuan Wang created a transparent horse for an exhibition in Kunsthal Ghent.
Mathilde Bezon researches the conservation of pastel drawings
Follow the steps in reconstructing a Virginal soundboard rosette.
Laura De Jaeger puts 3D printed stones next to the original ones in her exhibition.
Holes in sheet metal
AI Messages, a work by Jerry Galle
Colouring 3D prints with fabric dye
Custom shoe sole made with a 3D printed mould by Kilian Goderis.
Danylo Kovalenko converted a sketch into small and detailed pins.
A gear to modify a tape recorder, by Kilian Goderis
A bowl with the pattern of leaf veins. Printed flat, then formed over a mould in the oven.
A stamp milled in aluminum for marking clay tiles
The end results of the research project 'Tools For Things And Ideas' are showing in an iMal exhibition It runs until Sunday 6 February. The entrance is free.
Formlab printed flexible substrates for experiments by Laboratorium with structural colours.
Ward De Ruytter printed stairs for his architectural model.
A green-yellow tinted spool of recycled filament by Uģis Albiņš
Experiments with microscopic views of growing birefringent crystals. A collaboration with Maria Boto from Laboratorium
Bringing a 3D print and a growing organism together in an intimate relationship. This is an object featured in 'La Bahia', one of the three parts from the Petrilogy series where the video's take the petri dish as a canvas. This is a collaboration with Maria Boto from Laboratorium
Freshly extruded filament, pigmented with powder from the algae D. Salina. A project by Tools for Things and Ideas in collaboration with Laboratorium.
Patterned wooden piece for an assembly by Beata Kwaśnica
Aluminum brackets for Eloïse Baele
A scan of Viktor Froyen was digitally aged and printed
Modular parts for an animation puppet of Jeanneke Pis. A project by Sofia Erzini
Ball and socket-joint tests for a stop motion animation puppet are put in the oven to remove the support wax.
Experiments with alternative printing methods don't always turn out pretty
3D scans of Lilly the fish and some plastic teeth by Milla Van Der Graaf
A pretty failure
Finishing a resin print made with the Projet 3600. The objects will become necklace pendants of a tiny Jesus crucified on a cross modeled after an IUD. This is a work by Julia Lackner.
Using an old lens on a DSLR with a printed M42 to EF mount adapter
Jewelry prototypes by Bernadette Kretzschmar
An 8-knot connector piece by Bernadette Kretzschmar
Parabasis by Eloïse Baele
'A' from Argo. An experiment by Hanne Lemmens
A toe-protector by Tobias Van Nieuwenhove.