Armor Legs designed by Victor Clavelly and Daniel Cheruzel (2023)
Transfemoral Monocoque Polyaxial Study
There will never be enough trained medical professionals to meet the global need for prosthetic limbs. This means that the solution must be digital, must scale exponentially, and must avoid the human bottleneck.This concept leg proved that a complex leg may be created by algorithm and 3D printed, entirely custom per user. The geometry is based on a contralateral 3D scan, guaranteeing a recreation of body symmetry. Complex knee and ankle joints are printed integrally at no burden to process or cost. This remains an ongoing project.
Design: Scott Summit
Software: GeoMagic Pro/Engineer Creo
Fabrication: EOS Selective Laser Sintering
Materials: polyamide
Salgado spent several weeks in 1986 living at the Serra Pelada (‘naked mountain’) gold mine in north-west Brazil and observing its workers. Around 50 thousand miners worked there. Each one made as many as 60 trips down the cliff and back every day. The sacks they carried weighed up to 60 kilograms. For each of these journeys they were paid 20 cents. Focusing on the miners’ dirty legs rather than their faces, Salgado highlights the dehumanising working conditions at the mine. People are treated as little more than machines to extract and transport the valuable ore.
Hailey Clauson by Zoey Grossman
