Negar Kalantar

• Associate Professor at California College of the Arts

An increased number of hurricanes and tornadoes have been recorded worldwide in the last decade, while research efforts to reduce wind-related damage to structures become essential. Freeform architecture, which focuses on generating complex curved shapes including streamlined shapes, has recently gained interest. This study focuses on investigating...

By varying the arrangements of microstructures and constituents in bodies allows for effectively tuning the mechanical performance of composite structures, i.e., increasing stiffness and toughness, maximizing energy dissipation, etc. We explore the use of programmable filaments consisting of soft and hard constituents in tuning the mechanical prope...

Kerfing which is also known as relief cutting is a technique used to create flexible freeform surfaces out of rigid planar surfaces. Due to their pleasing aesthetics, flexibility, and ability to be molded into desired freeform shapes, they have several potential applications in engineering and architecture. The flexibility and reconfigurability of...

The process of kerfing enables planar structures with the ability to undergo dramatic out-of-plane deformation in response to static loads. Starting from flat and stiff sheets, kerfing allows for the formation of a wide variety of unconventional free-form shapes, making the process especially attractive for architectural applications. In this work,...

Original collection explores the relationship between research that shapes art, architecture and design practices, and assignments that are developed by faculty for students. Demonstrates how pedagogical inquiry can become an evolutionary agent and makes innovative ideas/exercises available for the first time outside studio courses.

Kerfing is a subtractive manufacturing method to create flexible surfaces from stiff planar materials. While kerf structures are ubiquitous in indoor and outdoor architectures due to their pleasing aesthetics, they have potential applications for tuning the indoor acoustics and altering the dynamic response of a building from wind, traffic, etc., b...

The process of kerfing enables planar structures with the ability to undergo dramatic out-of-plane deformation in response to static loads. Starting from flat and stiff sheets, kerfing allows for the formation of a wide variety of unconventional free-form shapes, making the process especially attractive for architectural applications. In this work,...

Kerfing is a subtractive manufacturing approach to create flexible freeform surfaces from stiff planar materials. The kerf structures are used in both indoor and outdoor architectures for wall paneling, outdoor façade and pavilion. In addition to their physical appeal, these structures have potential applications in tuning the dynamics responses in...

A relief cutting method, or kerfing, is considered to create flexible freeform surfaces from relatively stiff and thick panels. The flexibility and moldability are achieved by introducing slender components within the panel, forming kerf patterns, and hence reducing the second moment and polar moment of an area of the solid panel. This paper presen...