Responsive Skins

Computational design & fabrication

Seminar taught by Joanne Hayek as part of the Material (In)formation Workshop — DIDI, Fall 2021

Computing patterns that alter the behavior of a flat material by means of cutting.

Departing from a parametric exploration of the traditional patterns of Islamic art and Japanese kirigami, the workshop aimed to design, compute and fabricate ‘Responsive Skins’: performative surfaces that allow for expansion, contraction, double curvature, auxetic systems and more. 

Square Auxetic Pattern

Modular

Square Auxetic Pattern

Differentiated

Digital simulation of skin behavior — Kangaroo, Grasshopper

Parametric computation of traditional Islamic pattern as starting point for the kinetic exploration.