designboom 专访 Zaha Hadid - 谈论与 United Nude 的 3D 打印概念鞋履设计

作为 2015 年米兰设计周的一部分，鞋履品牌 United Nude 结合了 3D 打印技术打造了名为「Re-Inventing Shoes」的展览。邀来了世界知名的建筑师与设计师参与设计概念鞋款，其中包括有 Ben Van Berkel，Fernando Romero，Michael Young，Ross Lovegrove 与 Zaha Hadid 等响亮的名字，此项目给设计师们完全自由创造的空间，对 3D 打印技术进一步探索。设计网站 designboom 最近便与 Hadid 探讨了她参与这次设计的过程，对于鞋履设计的概念以及如何完成制作。完整专访内容不妨前往 designboom 了解。

What were the main challenges when transferring your architectural language into the form of a pair of shoes and how were you able to overcome these issues? The shoe you designed for United Nude is both a challenge to preconceived formal limits of shoes, as well as a synthesis of materiality, ergonomics and dynamism, which aspect was conceived first and why was it more important than the other?
As a designer, you first have to understand how shoes land with each step, how the wearer can balance and also the ergonomics and dynamics of how to ensure comfort and support – it’s all about working with the foot. But of course our intention was also to create a shoe that explores new possibilities in terms of design and manufacturing techniques. All these aspects have been carefully considered as a whole, and I don’t think one is more important than the others.

With the continuing advancements in the field of 3D printing, was using the technology liberating in the sense that your design was accomplishable or did it propose new possibilities instead?
The 3D printing technology is definitely offering an exciting spectrum of new opportunities as we now have even more creative freedom and far less manufacturing limitations and constraints; great things can come out of this method of working!