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This custer explores the opportunities that arise from iterative approach to form/function optimisation when working with curved folding. It takes advantage of rapid manufacture of large metal 3D forms offered by developable surfaces. The cluster will use a development process that transitions in and out of the digital realm – with the 3D scanner as input mechanism and vinyl cutter/laser cutter as output. GC will be used as the artifact interpretation and manufacturing preparation tool and building with GC tools for modelling curved folding. The end goal is to optimise designs for manufacture, followed by folding of metal sheets into the final form.
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Gregory Epps is CEO of RoboFold Ltd, a technology start-up that develops software to enable industrial robots to form sheet metal. This is a revolutionary manufacturing process which suggests new approaches to design and production. Based on the principles of curved folding, the technology replaces hands that fold with robots that fold – simple but elegant translation from craft to rapid manufacture.
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Simon Flöry is research assistent at the Geometric Modelling and Industrial Geometry (http://www.geometrie.tuwien.ac.at/geom/fg4/) group at Vienna University of Technology. His research interests focus on geometry processing and geometric optimization with particular emphasis on applications in production technologies and architecture.
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