NEGAR KALANTAR

Deployable Sturctures | Iris Dome + Geodesic Dome

—PROCESS

Data-Driven Design e

Seashell-Inspired Robotic Fabrication

Robotic Light Visualization

Clay++ | 3D Printing on Arbitrary Surfaces

Robotic Clay Printing

Non-Planar Robotic Printing


—BEHAVIOR

Tunable Smart Materials

Reconfigurable Kerf Structures

Flexible Textile

3D-Printed Flexible yet Rigid Textile

Self-Forming 3D Printed Structures

a2o | Responsive Mediator

—MATTER

Algorithmic Kerfing

BioMaterial | BacTerra

BioMaterial | Shell We Dance

BioMaterial |ShoreThing

—GEOMETRY

Nested Vault

2D Nesting

2.5D Nesting

3D Nesting

PRINT in PRINT

Casting on Sand

Folding Unfoldable

Kinetic Shading Structures

Deployable Structures

Deployable Domes

D-Form

Deployable Structures

Iris Dome +Geodesic Dome

2000-2008 | Art of Engineering Lab

Collaborators: Faridani, Farhoodi, Mohammadi, Hesamfar & Borhani.

Project Description: Inspired by Hoberman’s angled scissor mechanisms in Geodesic and Iris Domes, we developed a range of transformable and portable structures at various scales. These designs include the Expandable Sphere, the Deployable Curved Surface (a Cyberspace Generator), and the Square-like Deployable Ceiling with foldable covering components. The outcomes of our exploration into geometric transformations were exhibited to showcase the beauty of motion, using repeated simple geometric elements to form complex and dynamic patterns.