3. Circular fashion
I called this Project "Circulamic" from Circular + Islamic Pattern
Circulamic by B.O.R is a clever way to add a partition between spaces that also helps with acoustics. The design is customizable and modular, adding both texture and color to a space while also helping to disguise what’s behind it.
There are seven transparency options ranging from 0 to 90% transparency.
What is unique about this Circulamic as well is that sometimes you can take this to bed or put it away to keep this in place had been experimenting with this technique for many years here at the lab and I have found the best technique and setting that I am sharing here with you all.
I further developed this and used recycled material from the lab, I also included machines and digital fabrication tools like a heat press to better stick the joints I designed on Rhino + grasshopper and I found out that this structure/piece is useful in many applications as you see here in the pictures, this can be wearables like a skirt, top or part of the Shirts to add more design and coverage to certain clothes you already have at the same time this can be adjusted to wall curtain/partition. Optimizing the flexibility of both Applications as well as transparency options.
Inspiration
These were my inspo and research regarding modular wall curtains that can be adjusted to gradually control privacy or used in different applications as well like Room Divider - Art & Wall Decor, bed sheets, carpets, on the sofa and so on
So I wanted to create something as flexible in terms of application to optimize how useful it is! In addition I did some exploration in terms of the Color palette
Initial Research and Prototyping
I was lookin how other designers been developing this technique for years and what geometry did they use as well as joints to further understand what works the best or how would they end up in terms of application and so on
Some can even develop this 3D effect just from the joints design!
Parametric Design
I started via this code of Islamic pattern via grasshopper to give me detailed geometry as well as gradient
Joint design
Designing on Rhino a simple hexagon (as I was thinking of a shape that would provide me with zero waste in terms of nesting) and subdividing it into 6 further sections/segments
after that I tried to see out all the shapes could go all together to form different kind of Panel
In order to finalize the joints shapes exactly as well as the measurements of the joints
Design Development
I further developed the design of the joint and this I explored as you see here with different colors, different kind of joints to test on different kind of fabrics using the laser Machine
Final Design
There are the 7 transparency options ranging from 0 to 90% transparency.
I tried to include some openings here according to some Parametric progressions from 1 until 7 so I tried to split them according to the shapes (and here you can see how I started nesting and distributing them into the laser cut canvas of 100*60 cm to optimize and try make it zero waste)
I proceed to test on different kinds of fabrics like felt, leather or second hand fabric of course the fabric kind plays an important parameter on how they end up looking or how flexible plus tight they can hold each other via this joint (the thinner the fabric the more would slip regardless of reducing the size the of the joint)
Further Prototypes
Here I did further tests on the size of joints and proceed to cut the final
Final fabrication
As you see here I used the heat press to further enhance the overlapping of the pieces through the joints and stick them together better plus give a neat outcome!
This is a 200 cm * 60 cm Modular wall Partition
Process
This shows briefly the process / making off the wall partition from laser cutting to testing joints to organize for the assembly
As well as test the joint that would be the connection with the metallic rod to act like a curtain to support the attachment of this wall partition to a space
Testing joints
Here Testing the joints of the modular pieces as final cuts (the main idea here was to test the joins in a sense that easy to assemble but not easily detached so they stay together and of course we have the type of fabric as an important variable)
For the assembly I previously planned the organization of this phase
I separated/ classified the modular pieces that are same in the size of openings together as I showed earlier on rhino file
This was helping me further with the assembly to correctly locate them in their right orientation to form this 200 cm long wall partition without losing my mind
Laser settings
Laser settings:
Power: 20.0
Frequency: 1000
Speed: 1.5
Files to download
On oscircularfashion- open source circular fashion