CAD/CAM with industrial robots for small architectural projects and construction
In an old warehouse hangar on the shore of Lake Vänern – no signage, almost incognito – there’s a workshop where small models turn into full-scale monuments, theme-park elements, and cinematic “troll skulls”.
The workshop is run by one person: Joakim Målare. He takes a sketch, a scan, or just an idea and drives it all the way to finished molds and assembly kits for foundries and installation crews.
His trademark move for one-off pieces is to mill the negative directly, skipping the “positive → mold” step – saving weeks and avoiding the errors that come with hand fitting. The pipeline connects design and construction in a single loop so that 3D models become material structure with production-grade accuracy and predictable cost. [Read more…] about The nioform story: How one maker and two robots build civic monuments