Robot Creasing
Robot creasing is a proposal developed in order to convert a sheet material into a three-dimensional structure, to use it in a glass building as a facade, to improve its performance through the geometry and the selected material.
Framework
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Shadows crowd the urban pattern below, Creating a secondary city
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Sunlight as a privilege of Orientation and Cost
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Umbrella effect
Contrast between light & Shadow. Gothic Quarter, Barcelona (right)
70 Pine Street, New York City, circa 1940. (left)
Strategy / Reflection
Light Reflection Strategy
Previous Prototypes
1.- Aluminium Folding System
Self structure system joinable between the modules
2.- Aluminium Creasing
Structure rigidity due the deformation and creasing lines
3.- Aluminium Creasing & Bending
Convex & Concave geometry, bended in the edges for structural loads
Tool & Frame Assembly
Experimentation
Straight & Curved Lines
Angle Variation in Radius
Right Angle and Intersection
Parabola
Offset
Offset 2.0
Cutting Output
Fabrication Constraints
Orientation
Parameters
Design Possibilities
Shape 50mm
Length: 1000 mm Width[2]: 50mm Lines: 20 lines
Shape 150mm
Length: 1000 mm Width[2]: 150mm Lines: 22 lines
Shape 250mm
Length: 1000 mm Width[2]: 250mm Lines: 21 lines
Future
Facade
Model 1:1
Fabrication Process
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