Algorithmic Design of Architectured and Deployable Structures

Recent advances in 3D printing technologies expand the limits of fabricable architected structures and drive the need for novel microstructural topologies across all length scales and fields in both fundamental science and engineering practice. This research draws inspiration from nature, as well as from the traditional Japanese art of origami to design novel cellular and deployable structures with unique properties. So far, the research produced a ready-to-use catalog with more than 17,000 unique unit cells that are based on crystallographic periodic networks interpreted from a structural point of view. Further, a generalized approach for the algorithmic design of rigidly-foldable origami structures exhibiting a single kinematic degree of freedom, involving regular origami based structures, kirigami, generic 3D panel-hinge assemblages and their tessellations.