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Structural Papercuts - Scaling Disclinations in Self-Reactive Surfaces

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Abstract

This paper reviews and explores the topological properties of surface disclinations applied to elastic sheets and suggests how these properties may be reproduced at an architectural scale. A variety of surface disclinations and their translation from digital and physical form- finding processes to thin plywood prototypes are discussed. Initial phases of this research have been focused on the bending behavior of various sheet disclination types and have studied a variety of computational form-finding techniques that demonstrate this behavior in an architectural workflow. Several large-scale prototypes of architectural disclinations were produced to test the scalability of topological^ induced surface curvature, discussed within the context of bending-active plate structures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTechnical Papers, Keynote Conversations
EditorsBrian Slocum, Viola Ago, Shelby Doyle, Adam Marcus, Maria Yablonina, Matias del Campo
PublisherACADIA
Pages536-545
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9780578952130
StatePublished - 2020
Event40th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture: Distributed Proximities, ACADIA 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Oct 24 2020Oct 30 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture: Distributed Proximities, ACADIA 2020
Volume1

Conference

Conference40th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture: Distributed Proximities, ACADIA 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period10/24/2010/30/20

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