Layered moulds for Mat Group

The project

Archicercle manufactured moulds for Mat Group, a company developing technological solutions for head and body protection. The brief involved making the tooling that Mat Group subsequently uses to form textile components for its Air Cradle system.

Air Cradle is a system that inflates and deflates quickly to make a helmet easier to put on and remove. The moulds were made to produce components for this system: our contribution focused on manufacturing the tooling, rather than developing Air Cradle or producing its finished textile components.

The moulds were built from layers of MDF, laser-cut and bonded together. Stacking these layers creates the shapes and cavities needed to produce the components, building up the mould’s volume from flat elements.

Once the moulds have been manufactured, Mat Group uses them with technical textiles, applying pressure and heat to obtain the finished components. The work therefore connects two distinct stages: mould manufacture at Archicercle and subsequent textile forming by Mat Group.

Processes and materials: fabrication services · available materials · studio machinery.