Design & Technology

Paravee Pokawatthananurak ( M Arch ) Debolina Ray ( M Arch )

In this session, we chose polypropylene as the material and revolution surface as our surface type. We started by performing some basic tests on polypropylene such as heat tests, bending tests etc. to understand the material properties. In phase 1, we started by looking at folding techniques and how we could interpret them as 4 legged module. In th eprocess, we generated multiple iterations of module prototypes and conducted various tests in order to understand the relationship between material and geometry. In phase 2, we relooked at our module and simplified it into two parts, whic in turn lead to a system logic based on diagrid system. We tested our module on our global surface both computationally and physically with different joinery details. We used Karamba to analyse our structural stability, which in turn lead to optimising our module. .