- Digital Fabrication final output ::: Lamp
Material
We were assigned the bending technique using Paper/Cardboard. In our preliminary 3d model manual sketching we used 80g/sqm A4 sized papers. We wanted to design a lamp that is composed of several small units that interlocks and curves in more than one direction. We finally arrived to 0.6mm thick cardboard as it is not too thick in order to easily bend it in small scaled units and neither is it too thin in order to retain its curvature after bending.
Units' formation
Geometry
Initially, we were trying to apply the concept of the geodesic dome, but using random units by which all the small units work together to form the whole. The challenge was how to create a random pattern of units of the same family or language (originating from a grid) so that together the units composes a lamp that it is viewed differently from different angles and dropping different shadowing effects. Through our research, we found an interlocking connection, that we then developed to assemble our units together. This connection end was then copied and mirrored and rotated along the 360 degrees one every 45 degrees, in order for us to have a polar grid of 8 connection ends. From this grid we linked the connection ends by curvilinear lines, creating different formations of two, three, four and five sided versions of the same language.
Units - Grouping - Idea of engraving
Group19: GOKUL RAJ KAILASH, HUNIA TAREK TOMOUM, YAPING CHEN