Project004 Folding Forms

Folding forms are all about the relationship between parts and the whole. 

The example I tried to model is interesting to me in terms of the static of the hexagon part and the dynamic of the interstitial part and their changing proportion of their occupancy when the whole is folding. 

Modeling the folding form is like examining the algorithm of folding. The individual panels, the folding frame, and the assembly of them are the three elements of folding form. Meanwhile, the factor that process folding can be tricky. It is the last constraint of the parts before the whole become unique. In this case, I set the folding factor in two ways, either the angle of individual panels or the angle of the folding frame.

change angle of folding frames

change angle of individual panels

The only thing out of my expectation is that the hexagon part is actually not planar, which makes sense when I focus at the small area of the example picture imagining the folding process happening there. So the paper has to be bent a little when trying to make the form physical, or there may be another sub-folding system within the hexagon parts.