Folded Futures

Kanata Warisaya is a PhD student at TachiLab. His primary research interests are tessellation-based design and fabrication. He studies tessellation in art and nature and applies their principles to the design and modular construction of curved surfaces and mechanisms using computational geometry. His digitally fabricated physical models enable people to experience assembling and transforming them, which helps convey the concept of his research.

Hiroki Minami is a Master's student at TachiLab. His primary research interest is in the design and fabrication of mechanisms based on the theory of rigid origami. He studies the kinematic principles of origami and linkage mechanisms, applying them to the design of new mechanisms through the combination of their patterns. His work explores diverse possibilities from simple principles, extending into both engineering and installation art, and demonstrating broad developmental potential.

TachiLab, Tomohiro Tachi’s group at The University of Tokyo, studies the relationship between form and function to make them designable. They begin by appreciating the shapes around us, then unravel them from the perspective of geometry and computational methods, aiming to realize novel kinematic and functional systems. Two main themes are "origami", the behaviors accompanying surface folding, and "tessellation", the geometry of modular systems with consistent connections.

• Origami.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp