by agency@2ffactor.com | May 2, 2025 | News
Time Space Existence, the European Cultural Centre’s biennial architecture exhibition, opens to the public on May 10, 2025 in Venice, Italy! We’re excited to present our installation, Kirigami d’Aria, on the mezzanine terrace of Palazzo Mora. Kirigami d’Aria is a...
by agency@2ffactor.com | Feb 16, 2025 | Research
Kirigami for urban ventilation Cities are often hot and poorly ventilated. We have demonstrated that kirigami, or “cutting paper” offers a retrofitting solution that can offer adaptive ventilation, while providing shade, and be actuated at the meter scale. Kirigami...
by agency@2ffactor.com | Feb 16, 2025 | Research
Interactive shading The Swarm Garden lies at the intersection between mechanics, swarm robotics, architecture, and art. Units of confined, thin sheets, which buckle into controllable patterns according to geometry (see Mechanics Confinement Page and doi:...
by agency@2ffactor.com | Feb 16, 2025 | Research
Curved-crease origami In contrast to traditional origami with straight creases, in curved-crease origami, folding leads to panel bending. Thus, curved-crease origami could potentially produce stiffer, tunable, structures with fewer folds. Yet, the mechanics and...
by agency@2ffactor.com | Feb 16, 2025 | Research
Controllable buckling & snapping Shell structures are instability-prone. If we can understand and control these instabilities, we can use them to our advantage in engineering designs. Our work has focused on uncovering geometry- and mechanics-based guidelines for...
