Kinetikami

Team:

Annie Locke Scherer, Iulian Belea, Ka-Ping Yee

For Scandinavia’s regional Burning Man in 2017, we decided to merge our group's mutual interests of interactive, folding, and spatial art installations into a kinetic origami project. These interests stem from previous projects Floreplay (Annie Locke Scherer, Magnus Ziegler), The Wonderflower (Iulian Belea) and Light Orchaestra (Ka-Ping Yee). After initial brainstorming, we decided to develop an interactive, spatial, kinetic installation based on Matt Shlian's work and develop our own Miura Ori folding patterns.

Playing WITH FOLDS

To get an appreciation of the scale of the fold we started making some simple Miura folds in 0.4mm polypropylene and paper.

Designing the fold

After folding a bit, we started to understand that subtle variations of Miura Ori fold angles would allow to program curvature in the arch. This would allow for much less stress on the bending of the plastic and so we began investigating the complex math behind fold angles and resulting curvature.

Animations

Meanwhile Ping started animating some potential lighting patterns for the arch and speculating how these could be made interactive and reacting to sensors.

THE PROTOTYPE

Building the final Installation!