Applying dynamic relaxation techniques to form-find and manufacture curve-crease folded panels

Bhooshan, Shajay; Bhooshan, Vishu; ElSayed, Mostafa; Chandra, Suryansh; Richens, Paul; Shepherd, Paul

doi:10.1177/0037549715599849

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“…Most of the researches have used curved folding as tessellated, small-scale surface panels. The tessellation is either applied to a predefined global geometry with a topdown manner (Lalvani, 2003;Scott and Iwamoto, 2008;Epps and Verma, 2013;Brancart et al, 2015;Bhooshan et al, 2015;Eversmann et al, 2017) or the tessellated macro-architectural form is generated in an additive bottom-up process by adding a new sheet element subsequently (Lamere and Gunadi, 2011;Braun and Smith, 2016). The surface tessellations mostly function as surface strengthening, ornamenting or fabricating method.…”

Section: Studies On Curved Folding In Architecture and Mathematicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The discrete differential method to attain the properties of curved folded geometry is based on the application of the mathematical functions (mostly vectors for the displacement) to the vertices or edges of a discretized (subdivided) geometry. The discrete differential approach mainly optimizes, rationalizes, or approximates the pre-defined folded state of a three-dimensional geometry with a differential operation based on geometric constraints, which mostly stem from a priori knowledge of developable surfaces such as "the sum of the angle between edges around a point must be 360 degree" (Kilian et al, 2008;Taschi and Epps, 2011;Dias and Dudte, 2012;Epps and Verma, 2013;Bhooshan et al, 2015). From a design perspective, we evaluated these two methods as pre-rationalization and post-rationalization approaches to digital modeling of curved folding.…”

Section: Studies On Curved Folding In Architecture and Mathematicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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CURVED.IT: A design tool to integrate making with curved folding into digital design process

Bacınoğlu¹,

Piškorec²,

Kotnik³

2019

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The act of changing the direction of a sheet surface along a non-straight curve is a specific case of curved folding. From an architectural point of view, curved folding is an exciting operation. One or a couple of operation can generate highly complex shell-like spatial enclosure. From a digital design perspective, the implementation of curved folding with the built-in toolsets of available computer-aided design softwares is a challenging problem. The equilibrium state of curved folded geometry is needed to be found with a computational form-finding strategy. To use curved folding as a digital design operation, we introduce a new tool through developing a digital procedure for form-finding. The tool we develop can enable the experimentation with curved folding in the early stage of design process and facilitate the subsequent design development. In this article, we briefly present the literature focusing on curved folding in computational geometry, as well as the scope and description of a subclass of curved folding operation. Then, we introduce a digital tool, CURVED.IT through a design manual for its implementation and an algorithmic framework for its extension. Lastly, we discuss the design examples generated by CURVED.IT, and the potentials of the tool.

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Section: Studies On Curved Folding In Architecture and Mathematicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Studies On Curved Folding In Architecture and Mathematicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

CURVED.IT: A design tool to integrate making with curved folding into digital design process

Bacınoğlu¹,

Piškorec²,

Kotnik³

2019

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“…In this context, intermediate steps between design and production are no longer required as the design model only exposes the space of solutions that can be efficiently fabricated and assembled. The design workflow developed during the AA Visiting School Chennai concisely demonstrates the impacts of a fabrication-aware form-finding process enabled by MME integration (Bhooshan et al 2015a). The project sought to use of curved crease folded(CCF) formwork to cast nodal elements of a concrete funicular network structure.…”

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MayaVault—a Mesh Modelling Environment for Discrete Funicular Structures

Bhooshan¹,

Reeves²,

Bhooshan

et al. 2018

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The didactic and fabrication related value of a geometric form-finding method such as Thrust Network Analysis(TNA) has already been established through RhinoVault. However, it also serves as the origin of our proposition that the objectives of the TNA method are better served within a Mesh Modelling Environment (MME). The main contributions of the paper are:1. Incorporating geometric stiffness based form finding methods within an MME. 2. Articulating the nature and specifying from a designer's standpoint the requirements of an interactive exploratory MME that methods like TNA explicitly intend to support and 3. Exemplification of the downstream, usually fabrication related, benefits of combining TNA with an MME.The paper also describes the current status of the authors' efforts in the development of a custom software add-in to the MME of Autodesk ‸ Maya to demonstrate the said benefits.

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“…Folding is developed along spatial curves [19,[23][24][25], not along straight lines. CCF is an expanding scientific research domain that is not yet fully theoretically established.…”

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Design and Optimization of a Curved-Crease-Folding Process Applied to a Light Metallic Structure

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Presently, the realization of complex, unconventional designs using efficient modalities is possible due to an increasing interest in interdisciplinary approaches: materials science, mathematics, IT, architecture, etc. Computerized techniques, among which the algorithmic/generative design is the most advanced one, that are associated with the individualized production methods are used for finding solutions for modern spatial forms with an unconventional spatial geometric shape, which are generically called “free-forms”. This work presents the design, realization and testing of a thin-walled metallic structure proposed as a light structural unit. An integrated research approach was proposed that utilized an algorithmic/digital design applied to the curved-crease-folding method with the study (at different length scales) of the metallic material behaviour after folding. An original method was proposed for the digital design and simulations. The specific mechanical behaviour of the metallic material in the elastic–plastic regime was used in this case to improve the structural performances; mechanical and structural tests were realized to analyse the behaviour of the entire structure. The results are useful for enhancing the accuracy of the digital design, the structural simulation programs and the fabrication methods.

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Applying dynamic relaxation techniques to form-find and manufacture curve-crease folded panels

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

CURVED.IT: A design tool to integrate making with curved folding into digital design process

CURVED.IT: A design tool to integrate making with curved folding into digital design process

MayaVault—a Mesh Modelling Environment for Discrete Funicular Structures

Design and Optimization of a Curved-Crease-Folding Process Applied to a Light Metallic Structure

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