Folding Moire Patterns

cRITIC

Laia Mogas Soldevila

TEAM

Andreina Sojo, Hanzhong Luo, John Tang, Xia Luo

PROJECT STATEMENT

Folding Moiré Patterns is a design exploration that looks to understand the Moire effect from a different lens, the inhabitable space. But how can we shape Moiré? The Monumental MoiréChamber is a multiscale study of intersecting patterns produced when the mesh overlaps the same flexible material, creating a fascinating moment of motion and density. For this reason, we designed a refined wood skeleton that holds three surfaces’ typologies or triangular Moiré magnifiers. The joint sculptural structure reflects the dynamics of light and shade contrast, and it is a white canvas for abstract kinetic projections. The chamber reflects wood as rigid material with structural capacity and the white meshes as a playful material that works on tension, creating an occupiable space for people willing to be immersed in the perspectival experience. As a result, Folding Moiré Patterns is a hybrid exploration of light as a tool to capture the material ́s qualities, and the Moiré effect as a experiment not from the conventional 2D world; instead, we propose to make it 3D!

Daylight View

Pattern Projection

Architectural Drawings

Assembly Steps

Kit of Parts

Material and Assembly details

AI Material Explorations

Nighttime View