NEGAR KALANTAR

Reconfigurable Kerf 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

Reconfigurable Kerf Structures

Tunable Materials for Complex Freeform Structures

Funding| NSF EAGER #1913688: DREAM-B: Collaborative Research: Moldable and Wave Tunable Materials for Complex Freeform Structures

2018-2023: Texas A&M, College Station + Autodesk Technology Center, San Francisco.

Collaborators (PIs): Texas A&M’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (Dr. Anastasia Muliana and Dr. Maria Koliou) and University of Minnesota’s Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering (Dr. Stefano)

Links to publications: Advancing Tunable Acoustics through Smart Materials and Reconfigurable Kerf Structures

Structural performance of flexible freeform panels subjected to wind loads

The influence of inelastic materials on freeform kerf structures

Tunable acoustic properties in reconfigurable kerf structures

Tuning Mechanical Response of Hierarchical Composite Structures

Dynamic response of flexible viscoelastic kerf structures of freeform shapes

Bandgap tuning in kerfed metastrips under extreme deformation