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OBJECT DESIGN

OBJECT DESIGN

Surface Active Structure

Tehran, Iran | Summer 2019

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Role: Manager and Tutor

Credits: Photos and diagrams were created by the workshop students and instructors. https://issuu.com/ramtinhaghnazar/docs/sas-portfolio-pages-200

Like the previous FSS program, students studied a novel way of freeform making. FSS#2 focused on bent elements. Students studied material and digital fabrication abilities and tried to make two proximately 25sqm pavilion.

This workshop simultaneously held in the Art University and the University of Tehran in three weeks. In the end, students built two different pavilions in the universities.

The main idea of this workshop was based on Negar Kalantar’s research named “Surface Active”. Thus, students tried to make a freeform surface by Bending Active Structure approach.

The second concept is the result of the weaving of two bent elements. In this Idea, two elements bent by force. Then, they stabilized by joining to each other. This action formed the elements and made them much stronger.

Left: Design process

Right: Form generation diagram

Bottom: Strips to arch form elements

This prototype was assembled at Art University, Tehran. Assembling takes two days. The structure stood alone, and there was no foundation. All three legs bounded to each other by a triangle made by 1mm thick cable.

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