NEGAR KALANTAR

Nested Vault| Minimum Waste Interlocking Shell Structures

—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

Nested Vault

Minimum Waste Interlocking Shell Structures

2018 | Texas A&M & Autodesk BUILD Space, Boston.

Collaborators: Borhani, Behzadan, Rybkowski, Kang, Suermann, Yadav & Palmer.

Links: Nested Fabrication

Interlocking Shell

Project Description:  Two full-scale vault structures were designed to explore the potential of self-standing building structures made from lightweight materials and interlocking components; these structures were fabricated with an industrial-scale robot and then assembled. By expanding topological interlocking principles to encompass the robotic fabrication process (and thus reduce scrap material, the form of the entire structure and its modules emerged from the constraints of the fabrication technique, which were dictated by using a robot-mounted hotwire end effector. The challenge was matching the pieces together in an arch so that they each came out of a single block of geofoam without the production of waste material.