Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Esquisse 3 - 3D translation


















My product from nature is a stem along which lies a bunch of seeds arranged in an helical order. The stem being the center axis, and the seeds goes around it together with the height.

From this particular sequence and repetition,
i made these variations of helical paper folds that are constrained to a similar central axis.






The helical design (below) is another variation of the first attempt, and is much more related to the Human gene, DNA strands.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Esquisse 2 - Locking System


Plain 4mm corrugated cardboard, about 200mm x 320mm

designed, cut and scored for folding.


Folded structure 100mm high, that translates the load laterally from the mini bridges to the columns which were further reinforced by inner folds.

The idea of the structure and shape came from the "Arch of Triumph" monument, Paris, France


An array of 3 Arches that would be able to carry additional load.








Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Esquisse 1 - Sphere
















Modular interlocking technique using 12 identical units assembled together to make this amazingly strong and robust stellated octahedron which is not a perfect sphere but provides the overall symmetery. A more spherical form could be achieved by using more and smaller modules.





Esquisse 1 - 5 sided Pyramid





Simple one piece folded development

Esquisse 1 - Box



Simple One piece box development

Tuesday, March 10, 2009