Project: Modular Structures
SCI-arc (2007)
Teammate: Yukie Hirashima, Ye Yuan
Advisor: Peter Testa
This modular structure is designed to use flat materials to create a temporary outdoor structure that can be built with un-skilled labor.
Flexible panels with curved folds give the monocoque structure its form and rigidity; the expandable fabric tent control light and air-flow.
Module & Tent deployed
 initial curved folds structure |
Structure profile and section
Curved Folds Structure
Left: Material stress analysis / Right: Module pattern study
Module Selection
Small Unit structure physical mock-up
Larger Unit structure physical mock-up
Expandable Skin
Skin exansion study
Left: Test skin pattern #1 / Right: Test skin pattern # 3
Self-regulating nitinol skin study