NEGAR KALANTAR

UNFOLDING SOFTWARE

—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

UNFOLDING SOFTWARE

 A Simple Fabrication System for Unfolding Complex Architectural Surfaces

2016-2017 | In Collaboration with the Department of Visualization & Computer Science   at Texas A&M.

Collaborators: Akleman, Kea, Wua, Borhani, Chen & Others

Links: Folding the Unfoldable

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Project Description: Our design research focuses on finding ways to simply and affordably address the problem of constructability of double-curved structures. By encoding 3D freeform surface information into a 2D workflow, we attempted to break down complex mesh structures into a number of discrete and flat quadrilaterals that could be translated into a fabrication layout. We developed an open-source software named UNFOLDING that provides a practical way of linking the process of production and assembly to freeform architectural design. After making UNFOLDING plug-in, we used the plug-in to design complex lightweight geometrical pavilions; the goal was to demonstrate the plug-in application through an architectural project. We used laser-cut quadrilateral panels to design and construct several complex forms. By using our plug-in, we were able to examine how the proposed designs could be discretized in ways similar to the given models. The goal was to address the design and fabrication process of large-scale architectural form.