Kinetic installation: Chiris [“chai-ris”] is a transforming #sculpture designed and built by three architects @jetportal , @veanad and @pucarl. The aim was to #imagine how the technology and experience of an aperture mechanism could be scaled up and translated into architecture. An innovative, folding #origami skin adds a rich third dimension and a shifting pattern of light and shadow. Chiris is comprised of over 100 wooden arms; each CNC milled, hand-routed, sanded smooth and completed with plastic sleeve inserts. Seven unique joint details, which occur in a pattern throughout, were needed to keep the delicate cladding in-plane as well as to keep cumulative friction minimal. The supporting #structure consists of a 10’ circular frame on a 10’ square base with steel-cables tied back to the square base’s corners. A moment connection at the frame-base joint was avoided by utilizing a high-density foam block cut into the baseboard. Designed and built in 2015 as part of Chuck Hoberman’s Technical Course at #GSAPP, #Columbia. Via @superarchitects . Please follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/parametric.architecture . #architecturemodel #algorithms #algorithmicdesign #pavilion #installation #digitaldesign #design #designer #parametric #parametricarchitecture #parametricdesign #parametricism #computationaldesign #grasshopper3d #rhinoceros3d #architecturestudent #architecturestudents #architecturestudy #architecture #architect #mimar #mimarlik #arquitectura (at Columbia GSAPP)